2024 5 Vor 12!-Unerhörter Widerstand, permanent installation in public space, collaboration with Sabrina Kern, winning project in the "Competition for female* visual artists: to create an artistic work for women* in resistance against the Nazi regime in Upper Austria" organized by OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH (opening September 17, 2024)

2023 Beings & Creatures| Chapter 4: Beyond the tangible, group exhibition >rotor< center for contemporary art, Graz (11.03. to 27.05.2023)

2021 Phase 2 of the "Wettbewerb Widerstandsdenkmal" to create an artistic work for women* in the resistance against the National Socialist regime in Upper Austria, collaboration with Sabrina Kern, Linz University of Arts (28.09. to 08.10.2021)

2021 wir sind fragil / wir sind aus Stahl, group exhibition (project statement) by members and guests of the studio community Studio III, Semmelweißklinik, Vienna (08.09. to 12.09.2021)

2019 Between the Sheets, POP-UP bookstore and library (project statement) VBKOE- Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreich, curated by with Mika Maruyama & Aki Namba, Parallel Vienna, Vienna (24.09 to 29.09 2019)
https://www.vbkoe.org/between-the-sheets/

2019 Baile Bassena: Eine Nachtmusik für die Arbeitergasse, performative parcours, walk-in audio installation, collaboration with Jörg Lukas Matthaei, curated by Birgit Lurz and Wolfgang Schlag, Into the city, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (29.05 to 02.06.2019)
https://at-festwochen.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/2020/WFW-2019.pdf

2019 con/texto. Übungen in Übersetzung exhibition together with Katharina Luksch, program for the 500th anniversary of the European arrival in Mexico, 1519-2019, Graphic Recording: Welt Museum and exhibition: Mexican Cultural Institute, Vienna (02.04. to -20.04.2019)

2019 Poison Ivy, group exhibition, curated by Ivica Capan, Franz Josephs Kai 3, Vienna (01.02. to 21.02.2019)

2018 Visa-Vis, solo exhibition, curated by Doris Posch for the project Exiled Gaze | Der exilierte Blick. Cinematic-artistic positions on current exile stories around Mexikoplatz. Kaeshmaesh, Vienna (07.06. to 20.06.2018) https://www.mexikoplatz.org/seiten/154

2017 Strike Your Stigma Kegel Tournier, participative intervention, a project by Ruth Lang, Karlsplatz, Vienna (16.05.2017)

2017 Decolonial Borderlands, group exhibition, curated by Imayna Caceres and Sofi Utikal, Rundgang Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna (19.01-22.01.2017)

2016 Flowers of evil, site specific installation as part of Uno, Dois, Drei... An exhibition Project in three installments, curated by Patricia Reijs and Anna T. for Mz Balthazar Lab! Artistic Bokeh, Museums Quartier, Vienna (05.08. to 30.09.2016)
https://www.mqw.at/institutionen/kulturmieterinnen/programm/2016/08/mariel-rodriguez-flowers-of-evil

2016 Independencia, Dónde estás? solo exhibition, Galerie Thomas Flechel, Mexico City. (12.07. until 22.09.2016)

2016 Anti*colonial Fantasies: Decolonial Strategies, group exhibition, curated by Imayna Caceres, Sunanda Mesquita and Sofi Utikal, Friday Exit, Vienna (20.05.-28.05.2016)

2015 La Múltiple Lucha, group exhibition, curated by Nina Höchtl VBKÖ (Association for Women Visual Artists Austria) (31.03.-30.114.2015)




31.01.2024 Umi- Obi-Aufi: Performative Yoga, lecture-performance by students of the University of Arts Linz, curated as part of the seminar "Vorstellungswelten", Strafsachengalerie, Linz

29.06. to 01.07.2023 Interspaces, exhibition curation with students of the Bachelor's program in Cultural Studies, curated as part of the seminar "Translations/Transations" WS 2023-24, University of Art and Design Linz
https://www.kunstuni-linz.at/galerie/projekte-1/bildende-kunst-und-kulturwissenschaft/ba-kulturwissenschaften/2023/zwischenraeume-/-ausstellung-rundgang

12.07. to 14.07.2019 Field Within, curatorial work with works by Abdul Sharif Baruwa, Cana Bilir-Meier, Juliana Borinski, Stephanie Misa, Érika Ordosgoitti, Gaya Topow, Guillermo Gómez Peña and Balitronica Gómez (La Pocha Nostra). Xhibit, xE- exhibition space of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in cooperation with Impulstanz, Vienna
https://www.akbild.ac.at/en/museum-and-exhibitions/Exhibit/exhibitions-events/current-exhibitions/2019/field-within/SubEvent

25.05. to 15.06.2018 Virtual Virtue, curatorial work with works by Michael Kral and Hong Zeiss, curated by Gudrun Ingenthron (Ana de Almeida, Catalina Ravessoud, Mariel Rodríguez), Franz Josephs Kai 3, Vienna
https://www.ifk.ac.at/blog-detail/virtual-virtue.html

01.06. to 15.07.2017 Flowers of Evil: Nature and the Colonial Wound, curatorial work, participating artists: Sandra Monterroso, Edinson Quiñones, Sofi Utikal, Imayna Cáceres, Carla Bobadilla. Venue: VBKÖ, with the support of the Otto Mauer Fonds, Vienna https://www.vbkoe.org/en/flowers-of-evil/

10.06. to 18.07.2015 No Need for References, curatorial work together with Ana de Almeida and Catalina Ravessoud, artists: Andréas Hochuli, Yota Ioannidou, Nuno da Luz, Sandra Monterroso, Berenice Olmedo y Alicja Rogalska. Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna https://www.wuk.at/kunsthalle-exnergasse/kunsthalle-exnergasse-archiv/2015/06/no-need-for-references/




2025 Standpoint Autotheory: Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices, Sternberg Press, publication series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (publication February 2025)

2024 Umwege: Strategien zur Dekolonialisierung des Wissens durch künstlerische Wissenspraktiken/ Detours: Strategies for decolonizing knowledge through artistic knowledge practices, Amalia Barboza and Mariel Rodríguez Hsg. Arthistoricum Verlag (Forthcoming publication November 2024)

2022 "Women Raising Their Voices: 'World'-Traveling, Border Crossers and Participatory Critique", INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Elke Bippus, Julia Wolf, eds.
https://insert.art/ausgaben/participatory-critique/women-raising-their-voices/

2022 "Artistic Research: A definition?" 10 years of schau.Räume Wirkstätte und Werkstädte, Ackerl Konstantin, Katrin, Ambrusch-Rapp, Barbara, Anderwald, Kerstin, hgs.

2021 "Relationality" Visual contribution, Parabol Art Magazine, The kultur gemma! Edition curated by Gursoy Dogtas, Munich.

2019 "Parabol: The ritual" magazine curated by Verena Melgarejo Weinandt and Imayna Caceres, Center for Contemporary Art, Graz

2018 "Art, Research, Politics" Bildpunkt Artistic Positions/Backcover, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna

2017 "My name is not Juanita", ANTI*COLONIAL FANTASIES - DECOLONIAL STRATEGIES, Zaglossus, Vienna





2024 Moderation | Inherited Revolution: Privatization and intergenerational transfer of narratives of collective upheaval as part of the symposium "Narrativization of vernacular archives within intergenerational and transnational memory transfer" Kunstuniversität Linz (07.05.2024)
https://www.kunstuni-linz.at/aktuelles/termine-news/newsdetail/passed-on

2024 Performance Lecture | Tearing Down Walls To Build Up Bridges: a mestiza perspective on matters of in/visibility, Un/Visibilities - In/Visibilizaciones. Decoloniality and Art Conference and exhibition on decoloniality and art with artists from Latin America in Vienna. With Carla Bobadilla, daniela brill estrada, Imayna Caceres, Roberta Lima, Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (15.03.-22.03.2024)

2024 Workshop direction and conception with Ana de Almeida | Writer's Workshop, Standpoint Autotheory: Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna (16.,18.,19.01.2024)

2023 Artist Talk | Intervenciones, as part of the seminar "Cultura Visual y prácticas feministas: Remolinos artísticos y pedagógicos desde los sures globales", CIEG (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género) UNAM, Mexico City (30.06.2023)

2023 Artist Talk | Bewährungsprobe # 44, Depot, Vienna (17.04.2023)

2023 Lecture | Becoming mestizxs: transversal subjectivation processes in the dispositive of visuality in novohispanic painting through the analysis of Castas a painting by Luis de Mena (ca. 1750) Panel "Subjectivation through Representation" in the framework of the symposium: Diffracted remainders of the subject? Beings in common, relations, and transformations, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (10.03.2023)
https://www.akbild.ac.at/en/institutes/art-theory-and-cultural-studies/events/lectures-events/2023/diffracted-remainders-of-the-subject-beings-in-common-relations-and-transformations

2022 Respondence | Decolonial Aesthetics in Latin America: Indigenous Imagery and Topoi as Counter-Discourse - Waman Puma's The New Chronicle and Good Government (1615) Fernando Nina as part of the symposium: "Race" and the Original Accumulation of Aesthetics, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (30.06.2022)

https://www.akbild.ac.at/de/institute/kunst-und-kulturwissenschaften/veranstaltungen/vortrage-events/2022/oeffentlicher-workshop-rasse-und-die-urspruengliche-akkumulation-der-aesthetik

2022 Lecture | Images of women from the Nazi era: How do we deal with questionable works of art and monuments? Transalpine art festival AusARTen, Max-Josef-Stifts, City of Munich Department of Culture, Ausarten Change of perspective through art, Munich (27.10.2022)

2022 Lecture | Mestiza Art Practices, in the framework of the conference: History/Histories, From the Limits of representation to the Boundaries of Narrative, San Jorge University, Zaragoza (05.07.2022)
2022 Lecture | Mestizix Art Practices: Decolonizing Race, Class, and Gender Wednesday Colloquium, Johannes Kepler University Linz (23.11.2022)

2021 Moderation | The unsaid: decolonization of knowledge through the language of the arts? / Dem Nichtgesagten: Dekolonisierung des Wissens durch die Sprache der Künste? Discussion panel with: D/Arts (Sheri Avraham, Zuzana Ernst, Esra Özmen, Ivana Pillic), Claudia Sandoval Romero, Jakob Krameritsch and Maren Grimm (11.12.2021)

2021 Co-organization, conception and realization of the conference | De/colonization of knowledge a cooperation between the University of Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Art and Design Linz, Vienna (19.11.2021 to 21.11.2021) https://dekolonial.univie.ac.at/

2021 Moderation | The White Elephant Archive. Self-ethnographic research and family archives, guest lecture by Eduard Freudmann as part of the seminar: "Researching the Self" University of Art and Design Linz (29.04.2021)

2021 Moderation | Trenzacion: Decolonial methods of artistic transformation of identity(ies) Guest lecture by Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, University of Art and Design Linz (27.05.202)

2021 Lecture | Aesthetic-activist practices of critique, as part of the research project "Mediale Teilhabe", Re-thinking Participatory Critique? Theater Gessneralle, Studio 2, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland (26.05. to 29.05.2021)

2021 Guest Lecture | The Flowers of Evil: Nature and the Colonial Wound Class for Art Education, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, (03.05.2021)

2021 Key Note Lecture | To go Beyond: Matters of Visibility, Presence and Voice. Mapping the Unseen, Klagenfurt (26.06.2021)

2020 Lecture | Autobiography and the city. Marlen Haushofer's experiences from the boarding school years. Nomadic lecture series: Stadtamnesien/Hacking the City, Linz

2017 Artist Talk | No need for references, with Berenice Olmedo moderation Cana Bilir-Meier, Aciliyet Mektebi, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul

2015 Artist Talk | Networking Space, Counteracting: Selforganized Universities Kunsthalle Wien

TEACHING & EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL FIELD

SS 2021 Decolonial, Gender-Queer Lectureship "Nation, Gender, Race: 'mestiza' art practices and theories from the Americas", Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

02.02. - 23.07.2018, Subdirector of the Art Library of the Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo Juan Soriano (Museum of Contemporary Art in Morelos, Mexico), Cuernavaca, Mexico.

01.05. to 01.08.2018 Course "Descolonizar el Museo: limitaciones y posibilidades del museo como productor de encuentros" 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos, Mexico City. https://17edu.org/descolonizar-el-museo-limitaciones-y-posibilidades-del-museo-como-productor-de- encuentros/


CURRENT

Since March 2020 to date, University Assistant at the Institute of Art and Cultural Studies, Department of Artistic Knowledge Practices at the University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz
Independent artist and cultural worker since 2007
November 2023 to date, editor at Bildpunkt, magazine of the IG Bildende Kunst

EDUCATION

Nov. 2017 - today, PhD in Philosophy, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Sept. 2011- Nov. 2014, Master in Critical Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Aug. 2002 - Nov. 2007, Bachelor in Humanities, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico