Martita Abril (Pichu) is an artist from the border city of Tijuana, México. She has collaborated with Lux Boreal, Kim Brandt, Yanira Castro, Yoshiko Chuma, Milka Djordevich, Tess Dworman, Devynn Emory, Daria Fain and Robert Kocik, Lily Gold, Allyson Green, Abigail Levine, Mina Nishimura, Cori Olinghouse, Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born, Will Rawls, David Thompson, Larissa Velez-Jackson, and Cathy Weis. Martita was a performer in Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions and most recently the Mirrors I & II piece by Joan Jonas at the Museum of Modern Art. She was part of the Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts (NYLA), the Dance and Process (DAP) artist in residency at The Kitchen, and she is currently in The Movement Research (MR) AIR Program, funded, in part, by Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Martita has participated in residencies in Ecuador, México, Latvia, Budapest, and Prague. She also continues to guide workshops in Bushwick gardens to immigrant familias, through the iLAND program by Jennifer Monson. Martita co-curates In/Between, the annual immigrant artist group exhibition at NYLA in partnership with NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program originally created by Yanira Castro, Martita, and Poppy DeltaDawn. She is currently the Director of MR at the Judson Church Program, a mentor to immigrant artists as part of the NYFA Coaching program, guest curator for La Mama Moves & Sundays on Broadway, and in the NYFA Artists’ Advisory Committee.
