Itzel is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersections of identity, ancestry, and cultural memory. Rooted in her mestiza heritage, her work weaves Indigenous  lineages to reflect on belonging, transformation, and the resilience of tradition in contemporary contexts.

Her process is deeply tactile and intuitive, engaging with materials that carry both symbolic and physical weight. She works with natural fibers, textiles, pigments, clay, and found objects, often combining them with mixed-media techniques. Each material is carefully chosen for its ability to hold memory; whether through texture, color, or the stories embedded within it.

Through layering, mark-making, and hand-built forms, she creates pieces that serve as visual testaments to hybridity and continuity.

 Her work reflects not only personal narratives of lineage but also broader experiences of migration, exile, and return; revealing how communities preserve identity across borders.

 By reclaiming ancestral practices and reimagining them in contemporary forms, her art highlights the tension between belonging and displacement that many immigrant and diasporic communities face.

Itzel’s practice serves as a bridge between past and present, body and land, tradition and reinvention; an offering to honor where she comes from, while amplifying dialogues around immigration, identity, and cultural survival.

She graduated from the Delaware College of Art and Design in Fine Art and is currently continuing  her studies at the University of New Mexico in Chicano/a studies.