Cassandra Mayela Allen is a self-taught artist. Her work spans mixed media, textiles, installation, and social art, focusing on migration, memory, identity, and belonging. She’s been an artist in residence with Modern Ancient Brown (DT), Pocoapoco (MX), Campo Garzón (UY), Bolster Arts (NYC) and is an alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent projects and exhibitions include La UNAM (CDMX),  Olympia (NYC), MOCAD (DT), V1 Gallery (CPH). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Bomb Magazine, Elephant Magazine, American Craft Council and Vogue México.

I believe art has the power to serve as a conduit for empathy through intra-cultural dialogue. By balancing community engagement with personal reflection, I create abstract, material-driven works that draw upon Indigenous knowledge and the legacies of Latin American Modernism and Informalism, exploring color, lineage, and the universal through a process of transformation.