Lives: MIT – Cambridge, MA – USA
Home Base: San Francisco, CA – USA
Born: Chile
Negrete is a resident of the USA since 1988, where she earned an Interdisciplinary Art degree with a concentration in Public Art, Multimedia and Education from the San Francisco Art Institute (2006). This will be her first year of graduate work at MIT Visual Arts Program, Department of Architecture. Her area of research is critical social engagements and real time actions, in specific she is looking at how to utilize these practices to address disparate ideas about mass punishment in the USA.
Before coming to MIT, she had been working in the development of the Sensible Housing Unit (SHU) project, which is a tactical object that engages audiences in critical dialogue about the human rights issues of prison control units. She has presented this project at the University of San Francisco (2009), Mission Cultural Center for the Latino Art (2009) and the Mission Arts Performance Project (2008).
She is currently a nominee for the Bridge Residence 2010-11 (Headlands Center for the Arts) and a recipient of the MIT Presidential Award 2009-10 and MIT Department of Architecture Fellowship 2010-11. Upon graduation she expects to return to San Francisco, where she would like to pursue a career in Academia and Critical Arts.