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Biography

Cinthya is a visual artist, educator, and cultural worker of indigenous Nahua heritage in New York. She studied Ethnohistory and Anthropology and spent ten years researching at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico, focusing on indigenous migration, codices, textiles, and traditional medicine.

She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Photography from Ithaca-Cornell University and a Certificate in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism from the International Center of Photography (ICP). She is an Adjunct Faculty member at the Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. She has been a visiting artist at institutions such as Columbia University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and Rutgers University.

Cinthya has received fellowships and grants from the Magnum Foundation, En Foco, National Geographic Research and Exploration, We Women, City Artist Corps, the National Fund for Culture and the Arts of Mexico, Wave Hill House Winter Residency, the Mellon Artist Fellowship at the Hemispheric Institute at NYU, BricLab Contemporary Art, and the Talk of the Town AIR Artist Residency at El Museo del Barrio, among others.

Her work has been published in The New York Times, California Sunday Magazine, Vogue, Open Society Foundations, BuzzFeed, The Intercept, and The New Yorker, among others. As a writer, her texts have appeared in academic and journalistic outlets such as NACLA, The Nation Magazine, and newspapers like La Jornada.