Cassandra Mayela Allen (she/her) is a Venezuelan artist based in New York City since migrating from Venezuela in 2014. Working across textiles, installation, mixed media, performance, and socially engaged practices, she explores memory, belonging, active meditation, and labor as tools for self-healing.

Her practice begins with the migrating body and the objects it carries—fragments that become living archives of personal and collective histories. Through material experimentation and collaborative processes, she investigates what is preserved, transformed, or lost as people adapt to new environments and reimagine themselves. Her work favors process, centering acts of making as a means of reaching a state of “flow”, reflection, and connection.

Mayela Allen is an alumna of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2025) and has participated in residencies including Bolster Arts (2025), Modern Ancient Brown (2024), Pocoapoco (2024), and Campo Garzón (2024). In 2023, she received an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

She has presented solo exhibitions at Instituto Cervantes, LES Girls Club, Olympia, and JO-HS Gallery. Her work has been exhibited at MOCAD, UNAM, EFA Project Space, Eric Firestone Gallery, V1 Gallery, NADA Miami, and Mama Projects, among others. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, BOMB Magazine, Elephant, American Craft Council, and Vogue México.