Cris Tufiño lives between Mexico City and San Juan, PR. She is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and cultural organizer working fluidly across media and operating across arenas, Tufiño draws upon symbols of matriarchal power, ecological erosion to create otherworldly creatures and metamorphosing of bodies to redefine the human. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum, Paper Magazine, El Nuevo Dia and Modern Painters. Tufiño graduated from Rhode Island School of Design. Attended University of Pennsylvania where she was awarded a Merit Scholarship and Dean’s Scholarship as well as a fellowship to Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. Exhibitions and curatorial projects include: Casa Erosionada at Anahuacalli Museum, Mexico City (2023), Amanecer de Aquario, RedBull Arts Detroit, MI (2021); Dancing At The End of the World, Agustina Ferreyra Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico (2019); The Other Side of Now, Perez Museum, Miami, Florida; Millenium Mambo, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY (2018); Gran Turismo, Selena Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY (2018); Clay Today, The Hole, New York, NY (2018). She is represend by Agustina Ferreyra Gallery.
