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Michele Fiedler Fuentes

Michele Fiedler Fuentes is a Puerto Rican researcher and curator based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She was the curator at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City and has been curator in residence at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, and Oregon Contemporary, Portland. She has collaborated with institutions like the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California, and Beta Local in San Juan, PR. Through her exhibition projects, she has focused on political and social critique with perspectives towards gender and LGBTTQ+ rights, the erasure of ancient traditions and histories by colonial practices, and underrepresented artists.

Michele holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts and a BS in Agronomy, with a specialization in Horticulture, from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. She is a first year PhD student at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University. Her research combines the disciplines of art history, drama therapy, geography, and environment, as well as film, performance, and Caribbean studies.