Texan-Mexican artist who works on the connection points between science, nature and fiction mainly through textile art and photography. His work results from collaboration with friends and acquaintances and references literature, art history, and popular culture. In her most recent project, Daniela takes Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein as a starting point to find the relationship between the geography of a sick body and the last breaths of a glacier on the verge of extinction.

 

Seeking to create connections out of feeling out of place, he has held residencies in Iceland, Spain, France, the Swiss Alps, the Canadian Rockies, and the United States, thanks to repeated support from the National Endowment for Culture and the Arts and institutions. such as the Museé du Quai Branly and the Denver Art Museum as well as the support of independent spaces such as Cherryhurst House in Texas.

 

His pieces are part of public collections such as the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, the Museum of Latin American Art in California, the Denver Art Museum, the MFA Boston, the MOPA San Diego in the United States, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, Norway.

 

He lives in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato where he is a member of Taller30, a collaborative space that houses a cooperative of artists whose work integrates art, technology, science and sound. Since 2017, he has been part of the National System of Creators with the support of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts of Mexico.