Victoria is a first-generation Cuban-American artist and educator based in Miami. Born in the liminal space between cultures, her interdisciplinary practice emerges from lamenting what has been lost—or perhaps what was never fully hers to begin with. Through installation, photography, sculpture, and drawing, she explores how cultural memory in the Cuban diaspora exists as feeling before it becomes understanding.
Working intuitively with materials that carry complex colonial legacies—indigo, sugar, and found objects transformed through spiritual use—Victoria creates work that evokes a déjà vu quality: the sense of recognizing something not quite remembered, of inheriting traces of knowledge without their full meaning. Her works become portals, inviting viewers to reconnect with ruptured lineages and consider what power can be reclaimed when we refuse erasure.
Victoria holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. She is Adjunct Faculty at the University of Miami and Florida International University, and works in the Education Department at Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Photo by Nicole Combeau.