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Awilda Rodríguez Lora is a remarkable queer woman artist and culture manager whose transdisciplinary performances challenge prevailing notions of gender, sexuality, and self-determination. Harnessing the mediums of movement, video, and sound to explore the intricate terrain of the "economy of the body", Awilda daringly brings the private into the public sphere as a strategy to humanize the experience of art consumption.

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Born in Mexico, raised in Puerto Rico, and working across North and South America and the Caribbean, Rodríguez Lora's performances traverse a rich tapestry of geographic histories and realities. Her work fosters progressive dialogues concerning the enduring legacies of hemispheric colonialism and the fluid boundaries of race, gender, class, and sexuality.

Awilda has been welcomed in several Artist Talks and Residences at esteemed institutions such as the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD), the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Dance Center, and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Nominated for a US Artist Fellowship in New York, she possesses a vast academic experience and has issued several publications and catalogues. Founding collaborator of La Rosario in Santurce, she dedicates herself to her life project; La Mujer Maravilla, while serving as the Academic Leader for the Dance Program at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico. With over a decade of experience as an artist, curator, mentor, and academic leader, she remains committed to exploring how artistic economies can be harnessed to support alternative ways of life rooted in community, creativity, and social justice.

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