Biography 

Gabriela Aceves-Sepúlveda (born 1973, Guadalajara, Mexico) 

Gabriela Aceves-Sepúlveda is a Mexican art history scholar and media artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Gabriela holds a bachelor of arts in graphic design from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara in Mexico, a master of arts in art history from the University of British Columbia, a master of fine arts from York University, and also holds a PhD in history from the University of British Columbia. She is an associate professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, where she leads the cMAS (Critical Media Arts Studio), an interdisciplinary research studio. Gabriela is the author of Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) and many articles in academic journals. She is an active member of art/mama collective, which was created in 2016 and is based in Vancouver. Gabriela leads the Creative Media Responses to Diasporic Writing project by Light Factory Publications. 

Gabriela’s studio work is instructed by theoretical research about Latin American women, race, and the body in relation to feminist history, from which she creates video sculptures and sound recordings. Gabriela has exhibited at Surrey Art Gallery Urban Screen, in international and national exhibitions including Bodies as Borders: Traces and Flows of Connection (2022) and The Real, the Virtual and the We (Re-activating Lygia Clark’s The I and the You: Body/Clothing/Body, 1967) (2016) at Vivo Media Art in Vancouver and Harbour/Haven – thirstDays No. 03 (2016) curated by Denise Ryner and Tonel and Jayce Salloum at Media Art Centre, Vancouver.