Amelia Avilés
Email: Amelia (at) AmeliaAviles (dot) com
Website: AmeliaAviles.com
Education
2009-2011, San Francisco State University – Studio Art, emphasis Conceptual Information Arts
2007-2008, California State University, Northridge – Digital Arts
2000-2002, Santa Fe College – Studio Art
Selected Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances
2010
Senior Exhibition, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Living Altars – Día de los Muertos, Mission District/San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2009
Video Games, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Unbuttoned, SF Fringe Festival, San Francisco, CA
2008
Chica Boom Burlesque, Paperwing Theatre, Monterey, CA
2002
Reliquary Installation, Santa Fe College, Gainesville, FL
Current Projects Borderspace: an oral history and photographic exploration of lives lived in the spaces between the cultural binaries of gender, sexuality, race and body image. Lexi Lipstick: a sex-educating burlesque/performance persona with web communication
Areas of Practice
Performance (acting, performance art, burlesque, dance and voice)
Digital Photography (portraiture, nudes, erotica and pornography)
Web Design (utilizing WordPress platform)
Areas of Research
Human Sexuality: gender & sexual diversity; LGBPTTIQQ, Sex Worker & BDSM narratives
Postcolonial sexuality in the Caribbean
Mixed-race personal narratives
Body image & politics
Amelia Avilés
Email: Amelia (at) AmeliaAviles (dot) com
Website: AmeliaAviles.com
Education
2009-2011, San Francisco State University – Studio Art, emphasis Conceptual Information Arts
2007-2008, California State University, Northridge – Digital Arts
2000-2002, Santa Fe College – Studio Art
Selected Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances
2010
Senior Exhibition, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Living Altars – Día de los Muertos, Mission District/San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2009
Video Games, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Unbuttoned, SF Fringe Festival, San Francisco, CA
2008
Chica Boom Burlesque, Paperwing Theatre, Monterey, CA
2004
Action Figures, Dixie Film Fest – *Winner Best Short Film, Atlanta, GA
2002
Reliquary Installation, Santa Fe College, Gainesville, FL
Current Projects
Borderspace: an oral history and photographic exploration of lives lived in the spaces between the cultural binaries of gender, sexuality, race and body image.
Lexi Lipstick: a sex-educating burlesque/performance persona with web communication
Areas of Practice
Performance (acting, performance art, burlesque, dance and voice)
Digital Photography (portraiture, nudes, erotica and pornography)
Web Design (utilizing WordPress platform)
Areas of Research
Human Sexuality: gender & sexual diversity; LGBPTTIQQ, Sex Worker & BDSM narratives
Postcolonial sexuality in the Caribbean
Mixed-race personal narratives
Body image & politics