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NATALIA ROCAFUERTE
is a video artist exploring her dreams through installations, films, and print. Rocafuerte’s recent installation film “Dream of Emma and Tony” was featured and won best “Michigan Filmmaker” at the 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Rocafuerte was also featured in Remezcla for "Top 40 Latinx Texas Artists to Know in 2020". Natalia Rocafuerte's studio practice explores using technology as mediums of psychological reflections, immigration, duality, and borders. She grew up on both sides of the Rio Grande Border in Tamaulipas and Texas and became a naturalized US citizen in 2019. Rocafuerte is a current Master of Fine Arts Candidate at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor & Rackham Fellow.


Natalia Rocafuerte (b.1993 Ciudad Del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico)
Studio based in Ypsilanti, MI
contact: nataliarocafuerte [@} gmail.com
Full CV available upon request
EDUCATION
2022 Master of Fine Arts, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS & FILM SCREENINGS
CURRENT
2022 Close but Not Touching | Stamps Gallery | Ann Arbor, MI
2021 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival | Ann Arbor, MI
2022 MASA | Centro De Artes | San Antonio, TX
2021 ACROSS Curated by Jose Villalobos | Urban Arts Center | Dallas, TX
2021 Fortune Teller Group Show | Ivester Contemporary| Austin, TX
2021 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival | Ann Arbor, MI
2021 Choose Your Own Adventure: First Year MFA Show |Virtual
2021 Andie and Natalia's Experimental Show | World Wide Web | Austin, TX
2021 Living Pixels | Aztec Theater | San Antonio, TX
2021 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival | Ann Arbor, MI
2021 MULTI | Emma Barrientos Cultural Center | Austin, TX
2020 Austin Studio Tour | Austin, TX
2020 Respond/ Resist/ Rethink:Video Exhibition | Stamps Gallery | Ann Arbor, MI
2020 Concept Animals Video Art Show | Martha Contemporary | Austin, TX
2020 SOUNDLOT Mass Gallery Virtual Video Show
2020 NMASS: Quarantine Virtual Concerts
2020 Xicanx: New Visions | Centro De Artes | San Antonio, TX
2020 Artist in Residence The Line Hotel X Big Medium | Austin, TX
2020 Artist in Residence Future Front Texas | Austin, TX
VIDEO & INSTALLATION CLIENTS
Pabst Blue Ribbon
HBO
Giphy
REVIEWS
How Austin's Queer Community Supports It's Own
GIPHY Arts Presents: Artists to Watch 2022. | by GIPHY | Dec, 2021 | Medium
SELECTED PODCASTS
August 2019 Austin 360 Podcast: Episode 93
Sept 2018 #13 Yo Soy LGBTQ Podcast
June 2021 NATALIA ROCAFUERTE | Inner Freq EP 3