becerramgiovanna@gmail.com
@Gibibec
Giovanna Becerra

Giovanna Becerra is an Ecuadorian-American interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in New York, whose practice embodies decolonial resistance through cultural memory and material activism. With dual degrees in Sculpture and Anthropology from SUNY Purchase, she integrates ethnographic research with embodied artistic practice. As a recipient of the El Orgullo Award for promoting Latin community engagement and a published writer in Nowscape, her work reflects a commitment to cultural advocacy and critical scholarship.

Becerra's practice exists at the intersection of affect theory, feminist critique, and Ecuadorian cosmological beliefs, examining how communal celebrations transform historical trauma into expressions of collective joy and resistance. Her investigations of Ecuadorian festival traditions, particularly the Diablada Píllareña, explore how these festivities embody radical resistance against colonial hierarchies. Through material experimentation with both permanent and impermanent mediums, she uses impermanence as politics, mirroring the fragility and resilience of oral tradition.

Her work incorporates traditional craft methodologies alongside contemporary approaches, challenging hierarchies between artisan and artist while addressing labor politics and cultural misattribution. Drawing from her bicultural background and everyday Ecuadorian spiritual practices, she positions cultural memory and political resistance as inseparable from the body, ritual, and community practice.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Purchase College, SUNY
Conservatory of Visual Arts

Bachelors of FIne Arts, Sculpture
2025

Bachelors Arts, Athropology
2025

Employment

Sculpture Department at Purchase College, SUNY
Sculpture Department Student Assistant
Plaster & Casting Technician
2024 - 2025

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
‘Atrwork Research Intern
Works on paper documentation
2023 - 2024

Sculpture Department at Purchase College, SUNY
Sculpture Teacher Assistant
2022 - 2025

Referrals

Upon Request.

Exhibitions

Achachay Senior Thesis Show
Exhibiting Artist
Purchase College, SUNY
2025

What Píllaro Showed Me
Exhibiting Artist
Purchase College, SUNY
2025

What Now?
Group Senior Thesis Exhibiton
Exhibiting Artist
Purchase College, SUNY
2025

Earthday
Group Exhibiton
Exhibiting Artist
Forum Art Space
2024

Awards

El Orgullo Award
Purchase College, SUNY
2025

Publications

Beautiful Order
by Giovanna Becerra
Nowscape
2025

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