Bio

Rafaela Astudillo (b. 2004) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boston, MA, born in Quito, Ecuador. Her practice centers on the exploration of personal memory and its inscription on the body, investigating how lived experience is carried, translated, and reactivated through material form. Deeply interested in the ways digital spaces preserve and mediate memory, her work often combines moving images with painting, sculpture, and photography, creating layered visual languages that move between the physical and the virtual.

Drawing from a history of extensive medical experiences, Astudillo’s work engages the body as both archive and site of vulnerability. These experiences inform her material choices and processes, allowing the work to function as an extension of memory transformed, fragmented, and reconstituted into tangible form. 

Most recently, her short film Rosa was screened at GRRL Haus’ Best of 2024 screening. She has also co-curated the exhibition States of Being at UHGallery at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she has been actively involved in curatorial research and exhibition development.

Contact

rafaela.astudillo09@gmail.com