Education
2022 MFA in Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2017 Post-Bacc Certificate in Visual Arts, U.C. Berkeley Extension, San Francisco, CA
1995 Licensed in Psychology, and Professional Title of Psychologist, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Homebound (September), Skyline College Art Gallery, San Bruno, CA (curated by Kathy Zarur)
2023 Cartografías XXY: Migración, Sangre, Mestizaje, Centro de Extensión Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (curated by Gaston Laval)
2023 Quiriquina: nudos en las memorias (performance), 50 años | 50 acciones: Imaginando el Porvenir, Mesa Ocho and Archivos Artes Visuales Bío Bío, November, Chile
2023 Solo exhibition, Life in Transmotion, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, CA (curated by Kija Lucas)
2023 On Land, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Marin, CA (curated by Chris Kerr)
2023 The Home Between Us, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA (curated by Consuelo Tupper Hernandez)
2023 Pyramid Scheme, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA
2022 Introductions 2022, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (jurors: Lian Ladia, Genevieve Quick, and Leila Weefur)
2022 Cette Terre Sienne, HCE Galerie, Paris, France (curated by Héloïse Thiburce)
2022 A Between, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (curated by Muz Collective)
2020 Contemporary Art Award Exhibition, Murphy and Cadogan, San Francisco Foundation and SOMArts, CA (curated by Kevin Chen)
2019 Language and Letters, San Francisco Women Artists, San Francisco, CA (juror’s choice, Juror: Rhiannon MacFadyen)
2019 Performing for Izidora L. LETHE: Chor(eograph)us, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2019 Open Book 6, Arion Press, San Francisco, CA
2019 Performing for Izidora L. LETHE: Peristyle, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2019 Contexture, Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2019 Conversations, 7+1 Collective, Hayward City Hall, Hayward, CA
2018 Dissonance, Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2018 Altered, a series of shows-within-a-show, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA (selected in three exhibitions: Quel Dommage!!, The Steady Removal [both curated by OFFSpace], and Primus Est Forma [curated by Aggregate Space Gallery])
2018 Solo Exhibition, Fragmentos, U.C. Berkeley Extension, San Francisco, CA
2017 Real and Unreal Revealed, U.C. Berkeley Extension, San Francisco, CA
2017 Pin Up!, Classic Car West Gallery, Oakland, CA (curated by OFFSpace)
Research
2024-25 Member of Autonomous Imaginaries: For collective and counter-hegemonic artistic practices, Center for Race and Gender, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
2024 Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Callana: Cuerpo Manchado, Santiago, Chile
Press, Publication and Printer Matter
2023 Callana:CuerpoManchado, research and curatorial writing, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile
2023 Art, Soul and Mind of Visual Arts, Voices Blog, Art and Design, UC Berkeley Extension, San Francisco, CA
2022 Introductions 2022, Artist Catalog, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2022 Warp, 2022 SFSU MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalog, San Francisco State University
2020 Possible Show, Postcard project (curated by Muz Collective)
2020 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Award, in Issue magazine, SOMArts Cultural Center
2020 The Annual Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards 2020, Artist Catalog, San Francisco Foundation and SOMArts Cultural Center
2020 SOMArts Cultural Center, Artist Feature, Oct.1, 2020, https://somarts.org/claudia-huenchuleo-paquien/
2019 MFA Now 2019, Archive Publication, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2017 OFFSpace, “Pin Up,” Oct. 4, 2017, http://www.off-space.org/pin-up/
Invited Lectures/Presentations/Talks
2024 Artist talk: how the role of arts and arts-based methodology shows up in academic scholarship. Arts in Research Group Speaker Series, California Institute of Integral Studies CIIS, March 28.
2024 Decolonizing Worldviews, Interdisciplinary Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies CIIS, January 13.
2023 Artist talk: Life in Transmotion, Class: Anthropology of Social Change, California Institute of Integral Studies, October 2.
2022 Artist Talk: Lof in Transit, ENG 602: Literature and Society, San Francisco State University, May 9.
2021 Presentation: Indigeneity in the Urban Context and Mapuche dissidence, SPAN 850: Systemic racism in Spanish-speaking countries and cultures of antiracist resistance, San Francisco State University, April 1.
2020 Invited to MFA Artist Talk, Art Table Northern CA, February 25 (canceled by Northern California chapter).
2020 Artist Talk, The Annual Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards 2020, SOMArts, October 1.
2020 Artist talk, ART 240: Intro to Contemporary Sculpture, October 6.
2019 Open Discussion: Solidarity with Chile, the Fall of Colonial Monuments and Mapuche Resistance (with Assistant Professor School of Cinema, Dr. Elizabeth Ramirez Soto, and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts, Carlos Barón from SFSU), SPAN 868: Historical Memories, San Francisco State University, November 7.
Award
2020 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Award.
Other Professional Experience in Visual Art
2021 Teaching Assistance, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (Foundations in Contemporary Sculpture: Materials and Concepts, Fall 2021)
2019 Internship, Global Museum, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Other Professional Experience (Between 1995-2013)
2013 Director, Volunteer Program, Presidential Campaign Alfredo Sfeir Younis, Chile
2010-2013 Community Programs Coordinator, The Women's Building, San Francisco, CA
2011-2012 Consultant, Feed the Hunger Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2008 Preschool For All Specialist, Wu Yee Children’s Services, San Francisco, CA
2003-2005 Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank & Fundación Superación Pobreza, Chile
2000-2001 Director, International Fellowship Program, Ford Foundation & Fundación Superación Pobreza, Chile
1999-2000 Program Manager Women Area, United Nations Development Program & Fundación Superación de la Pobreza, Chile
1997-1999 Psychologist, Servicio País Program, Fundación Superación Pobreza, Chile
1996 Psychologist, Rehabilitation Center Paulo VI, Chile