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EDUCATION

2017 MFA/ 2018 MA  Dual Masters San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), San Francisco, CA

Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Art

Masters of Arts in History & Theory of Contemporary Art

MA Thesis: When Cinema Needs Opera. Arias as Redemption Songs.

2014 Bachelors of Fine Arts - Photography (Cum Laude) Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

2010 Photography Course Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London

2003  Bachelors degree in Journalism. Universidad San Pablo- CEU (Madrid)

2009  Post-graduate course Teaching Spanish for Specific Purposes: Spanish for Business. Instituto Cervantes’s Certificate with Universidad de La Rioja (Spain)
                               
2008 Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA). Language Link London.
2008  Post-graduate course in ‘Spanish as a Second Language: Teaching and Learning’. University Expert in the teaching of Spanish as a second language. National University Distance Learning (UNED) (Spain) 

2006 Certificate in the Teaching of Spanish to Adults. International House (London)        

LANGUAGES

-Spanish: mother tongue

-English: fluent (Cambridge CELTA, Cambridge Proficiency)

-Italian: advanced level (Istituto Italiano Scuola, San Francisco, CA)

-French: upper-intermediate level (Institut Français London, DELF B1)

EXHIBITIONS

2018

-Wave Forms, Embark Gallery. Juried by Leila Grothe. Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco, CA.

-MFA Show curated by Katya Min and Julio César Morales. SFAI Fort Mason Campus, San Francisco, CA.

-This Doesn’t Look Like Art, Swell Gallery at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA.

-Roommates, Diego Rivera Gallery, curated by Emily Alexander. San Francisco, CA.

-Happy Accidents. Site specific photographic installation at West entrance of SFAI Fort Mason Campus. On view from September 2017 til June 2018.

2017

-MFA Show at The San Francisco Mint, SF.

-MFA Film Festival SFAI at New People Cinema, SF.

-Zeitgeist, Swell Gallery on Third street, San Francisco, CA.

-MFA Open studios second year, SFAI campus on Third street, SF.

2016

-MFA Open studios first year, SFAI campus on Third street, SF.

-Attraction, AAU Gallery on Sutter street, SF. (S

-Focus on the Negative, AAU Gallery on Sutter street, SF.

2015

-Selected AAU Alumni exhibition at The Cannery, San Francisco, CA.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

-Teaching Assistant for painter and professor Dewey Crumpler, SFAI.

-Teaching Assistant for the Art History department, SFAI. Micro-lecture about operas set in ancient civilizations.

-Language teacher at International House London, Cactus Language London, and many other language agencies in the UK. Groups and one-to-one tuition.