Curation / Installations / Art
Sacred and Soft Landings / Soñar y Descansar
Sacred and Soft Landings / Soñar y Descansar
Exhibition curation
Artwork "Rest and Dream Sanctuary"
2024 / Museo de la AmericasCristina’s curation and installation artwork, Sacred and Soft Landings: Soñar y Descansar created an immersive environment centered on rest, dreaming, and ancestral care. Featuring works by BIPOC artists alongside Cristina’s installation, the exhibition invited visitors into a space of softness and reflection, framing rest as resistance and as both a personal and a collective practice.
The exhibition explored how rest, imagination, and spiritual grounding can serve as antidotes to burnout, grief, and disconnection, especially in communities navigating systemic harm and exhaustion. Through immersive design, soft textures, soundscapes, and intentional pacing, Cristina created an environment that invited visitors to slow down and reconnect with themselves and one another.
Divine Rest Nests: An Invitation
Divine Rest Nests: An Invitation
Exhibition curation
Installation vignettes
2025 / Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s first all-BIPOC exhibition centered rest as a radical and necessary practice. Cristina curated a collective space for pause, reflection, restoration, and connection, bringing together artists whose works explored healing, spirituality, belonging, and liberation through immersive, relational experiences.
The exhibition invited visitors into a series of reflective prompts, affirmations, and written vignettes by Cristina, woven throughout the space, to encourage moments of pause, imagination, and personal inquiry. One central prompt asked:
Who are you resting for?
Alongside the exhibition’s curatorial statement, Cristina also included a personal reflection written during a pre-installation retreat that captures the organic nature of living art in motion.
I am worthy of tending.
Her response to the exhibition’s central question, “Past, present, and future ancestors dreaming ourselves into healing, decolonization, and libertad,” helped ground the exhibition’s emotional and spiritual framework.
Cristina’s curatorial approach emphasized accessibility, emotional resonance, and softness, creating a cocoon-like environment in which visitors could feel held, witnessed, and nourished as they engaged with the work. The exhibition expanded her ongoing exploration of rest as both an artistic practice and a collective survival strategy.
Yo Soy: Mariposas Sin Fronteras
Yo Soy: Mariposas Sin Fronteras
Featured artist
2025 / Denver Botanic Gardens The Denver Botanic Gardens’ large-scale exhibition celebrated monarch butterflies as symbols of migration, resilience, transformation, and hope.
As a featured artist, Cristina Aguilar contributed an original poem, Flight of Belonging, and an immersive installation, Monarca: Un Santuario de Sueños. Rooted in the central idea “wherever you land, you belong,” the work explored migration as both a physical and spiritual journey—beautiful, tender, liberatory, and deeply human.
The installation centered on a tree structure holding mariposas as offerings and invitations for reflection during the liminal period of Hispanic Heritage Month. Visitors were asked to consider:
What does it mean to root your journey, your belonging, and your fullest expression of self?
The work invited participants into stillness, grounding, and remembrance while affirming:
You are held. You are worthy. You are witnessed across past, present, and future.
