Tamara Becerra Valdez is a visual artist. Recent projects include te vine a ver y no te encontré / i came to see you and i did not find you (2018), an artist book published by Something Something Else Press; COPIES & TRANSFERS: A Printing Station of the Left Behind, Ditched, Dumped, and Discarded held in conjunction with the exhibition, “All things share the same breath,” at Gallery 400 ORT, Chicago. Her work has been exhibited at The National Museum of Mexican Art, Austin and Sector 2337 as part of the 2018 Lit & Luz Festival, Chicago, among others. From 2017­­–2019, she served as a graduate research fellow supervising the artistic and creative direction in the collaborative, multi-disciplinary project, “Political Ecology: Platform Chicago,” supported by the Institute for the Humanities (UIC) Humanities Without Walls consortium and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Valdez is a BOLT resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition (2019­–2020).