Howdy, my name is Juno, a multimedia artist fresh out of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin (May 2025, we made it!). I make autoethnographic art that lives between my real life and my digital one, weaving together paintings, sculpture, photography, writing, and video work, translating the world through my lens and encapsulating the feelings of a memory I want to evoke in others.
I started out obsessed with painting and drawing, but then I discovered transmedia and cyberfeminist theory and everything clicked. Suddenly I saw how my lived experiences and my online self could dance together, and that’s when sculpture swept me off my feet during my final semesters.
Being chronically online isn’t just a vibe, it’s literally shaped how I create. My phone has become this extension of myself, like another hand, a companion, a tool that knows me. I’m constantly capturing life’s whimsical little moments through film, digital photography, and my trusty android camera, preserving the magic before it disappears.
My final semester, I got my hands dirty as a gallery assistant at Northern Southern, then from June to November 2025, I assisted Abidemi Olowonira at Kyle Bunting sculpting with leather. Now I’m out here making art independently, building something sustainable and entirely mine.
Growing up in McAllen, Texas, after moving from Minnesota when I was just 10, the border town shaped who I am. Living between worlds, I witnessed the stark divide in technology access between Mexico and the US, which deeply informed how I understand technology as tied to my identity as a Mexican American. I’m obsessed with ephemeral processes and Rasquachismo, that Chicano aesthetic of making do with humble materials and transforming them into something bold. With an autoethnographic flair, I blend identity, dead technology, living technology, and lived experiences into mixed media assemblages that feel like little altars to the now. Found objects, chance, and cyberfeminism research fuel my practice, cementing everything together. I’m here for a long, shape-shifting creative journey, and honestly? I can’t wait to see where it takes me.
