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Education
- 2020 MFA Directing, Theatre, California Institute of the Arts
- 2013 BFA Acting, Experimental Theatre Wing, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
- 2012 International Theatre Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (ITW/NYU)
Residencies & Fellowships
- 2025 Watermill Center, Watermill, NY
- 2024 Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist Residency, Headlands, CA
- 2023 Mellon Foundation/CENTRO Bridging the Divides Fellowship
- 2023 San Juan 721 X Hidrante, Santurce, Puerto Rico
- 2023 Pioneer Works Visual Arts Residency, Brooklyn NY
- 2023 Inarú Marú, Baja California Sur, MX
- 2022 Puerto Rican Artist Fellow, MassMoca Studio Residency, North Adams, Massachusetts
- 2022 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington DC
- 2022 Amant Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
- 2021 PAOS GDL, Guadalajara, MX
- 2018 The Harbor, Beta-Local, Puerto Rico
- 2016 Fonderie Darling American Artist Residency, Montréal, CA
Solo Exhibitions
- 2024 Unruly Subjects, as part of Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Triennial
- 2024 En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I), Amant, Brooklyn NY; Curated by Natalia Viera Salgado; organized by Ruth Estévez and Isabella Nimmo
- 2024 Foreign in a domestic sense, Dazibao, Montreal, Québec
- 2024 Joint Custody, SlashArt, San Francisco; curated by Amanda Nudelman
- 2023 Foreign in a domestic sense, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Puerto Rico; curated by Marina Reyes Franco
- 2021 Libreto Escrito, Aún no Existe, Hidrante, Santurce, Puerto Rico ; curated by José López Serra
- 2018 La Ruta del Progreso, Pública, Santurce, Puerto Rico; curated by Natalia Viera Salgado
Collective Exhibitions (Selected)
- 2024 Dig where you stand, KADIST, Cotonou, Benín
- 2023 22a Biennale Sesc_VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- 2023 New Devotions, The Clemente, New York, NYC, Curated by Laura Rivera
- 2023 Once upon a time, El Kilómetro, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- 2023 Entangled Spaces, Contemporary Art in the Caribbean, MoCa Taipei, Taiwan
- 2022 Unraveling the (Under-) Development Complex or Towards a Post- (Under-) Development Interdependence, SAAVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
- 2021 Reensamblaje, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Bienal de Fotografía, Islas Canarias, España ; Curated by Teresa Arozena
- 2021 Constant Storm, Art from Puerto Rico & its Diaspora, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Curated by Noel Smith and Christian Vivero-Fauné
- 2020 The Backroom, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX ; curated by José López Serra
- 2020 Temporal, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; curated by Dalina Pérdomo
- 2019 Imagen Inquieta, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC), Costa Rica
- 2019 Will you still love me tomorrow? Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
- 2019 It will never become quite familiar to you, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL ; curated by Angélica Arbélaez
Festivals & Individual Screenings
- 2025 En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I), Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami, Florida
- 2025 Passage of the Spiral, Images Festival, Toronto
- 2025 Pasadizo en Espiral, MUAC/UNAM junto a la Cátedra Bergman, Ciudad de México, MX
- 2025 Pasadizo en Espiral, Oaxaca Cine, Oaxaca, MX
- 2025 Pasadizo en Espiral, Museo Comunitario de Rastros y Rostros, Yanhuitlán, Oaxaca, MX
- 2025 Foreign in a domestic sense, Ciclo de Cine: Sentimientos Locales, Crisis Galería, Perú
- 2024 Foreign in a domestic sense, w/ Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami, Florida
- 2024 Passage of the Spiral, RedCat, Los Angeles, CA
- 2023 Foreign in a domestic sense, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
- 2023 Foreign in a domestic sense, CounterFlows, Batalha Cinema, Porto, Portugal
- 2023 Foreign in a domestic sense, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY
- 2022 Foreign in a domestic sense, Cinema Moderne, Montréal, CA
- 2022 Foreign in a domestic sense, Flaherty Seminar, Colgate University, NY
- 2022 Foreign in a domestic sense, BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA
- 2022 Foreign in a domestic sense, Amant, Brooklyn, NY
- 2021 Retiro, Teorética’s Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Costa Rica
- 2021 Paro Tríptico, Proyecciones Caseras, curated by Akili Tomassino, Puerto Rico
- 2020 La Ruta & Retiro, Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles, California
Theatre and Multimedia Performance Projects (Selected)
- 2026 En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part II & III), Abrons Art Center, New York City, curated by Ali Rosa-Salas
- 2024 Tactics of Transmission, w/ Sofía Gallisá Muriente, VeraList Center Forum
- 2024 Retiro, performance with Gloria Morillo, Slash Art, San Francisco
- 2021 The Night and Other Electric Flowers, Center of New Performance, California
- 2019 Antigone, Walt Disney Modular Theater, Valencia, CA
- 2018 EN PARABOLA / Conversations on Tragedy, Galería Diagonal, Santurce, Puerto Rico
- 2017 Retiro, Miami Theatre Center, Miami, Florida
- 2017 A Study in Cohabitation, Fonderie Darling, Montréal
Awards and other recognitions
- 2024 Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant
- 2024 Máquina Simple, Beta Local, Puerto Rico
- 2024 National Endowment of the Arts, Interdisciplinary Artist Grant
- 2023 Puffin Foundation Grant
- 2022 Foreign in a domestic sense, Best Experimental Film, Blackstar Film Festival
- 2022 Catapult Arts Grant
- 2021 Foundation of Contemporary Arts, Visual Arts Grant
- 2019 National Association of Latino Artists and Cultures (NALAC) Artist Grant
Presentations, Talks, Conferences
- 2025 Making Home Saturday Series: Systems Shaping Our Understanding of Home with Sofía Gallisá Muriente & Reniel Rodríguez Ramos
- 2024 Tactics of Transmission, Vera List Center Conference, New York City
- 2024 Retiro, Ciclo de Cine Experimental, Departamento de Género, UPR Recinto de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
- 2024 Sites of Rehearsal, Amant, Brooklyn, NY
- 2024 Between Memory and Image, Lacey Lennon, Genesis Baez, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, SlashArt, San Francisco, CA
- 2023 A Threaded Archipelago from the suit of memory, Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- 2023 Sites of Rehearsal, w/ Sophie Cavoulacos
- 2023 Herstories and a Collaborative Future Beyond Tragedy, with Iris Morales, Amant, Brooklyn, NYC
- 2023 Lessons in Living Otherwise, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY
- 2022 Reimagining Land From a Distance, w/ Ali-Rosa Salas and Ruth Estévez, Amant, Brooklyn, NY
- 2022 Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Teorética + Fresh Milk, Barbados
- 2021 Geografías Afectivas, Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX
- 2021 In the Studio, Americas Society for the Contemporary Arts, New York City
- 2020 Behind the Lens, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
- 2020 Cine Nueva Onda: Conversation with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Mónica Rodríguez, Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles, California
- 2018 En Parábola, conversation with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Awilda Sterling and Gloria Morillo, La Espectacular Residencia, Santurce, Puerto Rico
- 2016 Artist Talk: Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, QC
Collections
- 2022 Kadist
Professional Teaching Experience
- 2023 Memory-Scripting through the Moving Image | School of Making Thinking, New York City
- 2022 Professor of Film and Video | Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
- 2020 Professor of Arts in Practice | Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library
- 2020 Visiting Professor, Performance and Multimedia | California Institute of the Arts
Texts about my work and Press (Selected)
- 2025 Water is a word you say with the help of others, Millenium Film Journal, written by Ignacio Szmulewicz
- 2025 La tierra es un barco a la deriva, Chiquilla te quiero, por Ignacio Szmulewicz
- 2024 Foreign in a domestic sense review, CMag, by Bettina Pérez Martínez
- 2024 Foreign in a domestic sense, Review, Ciel Variable, by Didier Morelli
- 2024 En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I) Review, by Caitlin Anklam for the Brooklyn Rail
- 2024 voces anfibias, voces de agua, Artishock, written by Fernanda Ramos Mena
- 2024 Diaspora’s Magic Mirror, by Carina del Valle Schorske for Broadcast
- 2024 En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I) Review, by Anne Cheng, for Screenslate
- 2024 Entre esta Agua, Elisa Peebles, for En Parábola, Amant
- 2024 Exploring Puerto Rico’s Identity as both Foreign and Domestic, written by Olivia Johnson for The Link, Montreal
- 2023 Reveries in the Shadow of Water, written by Rolando López-Torres for Esferas, Spring 2023
- 2023 The Complex Spirituality of Syncretic Beliefs, Sebastián Meltz-Collazo, Hyperalleric
- 2021 Mira el mar: Reflections on Natalia Lassalle-Morillo's Retiro, Burnaway Mag, by Monica Uszerowicz.
Publications (texts written by me)
- 2025 Meeting you Felt Like a Balm; Cassandra Mayela Allen x Natalia Lassalle-Morillo in conversation
- 2023 Documentando lo indocumentable, Observatorio de Lagunas, Editorial Emergente
- 2023 Slow dancing together, written with Sofía Gallisá Muriente for Springerin, 2023
- 2023 A Region in the Mind: Terrenos y Cuentos; G. Rosa-Rey in Conversation with Natalia Lassalle Morillo, Latinx Project, Spring 2023
- 2021 Border Theatrics, Dolce Still Criollo