Estefania Puerta

Estefania Puerta's work delves into organic/inorganic materials to form new poetics of transformation and translation. She is interested in what is gained and lost in the process of making and the new worlds that can emerge from metaphors. Her practice is rooted in world making, shape shifting, border crossing, and language failure. Her research in psycho-analysis as it relates to the history of hysteria, natural medicine/folklore, and personal histories of immigration and undocumentaion in the U.S. has led to questions around what is considered “natural” and “alien” in her materially diverse work. Her work has been recently exhibited at Lyles and King (NYC), Micki Meng Gallery (SF), Hales (NYC), and Someday Gallery (LA). She is a recipient of the 2024 Rome Prize.