Lili Flores is a transdisciplinary artist and scholar based on Tongva Land (Los Angeles, California). Currently–a Ph.D candidate at UCLA Arts, focusing on Culture and Performance, within the department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.

With a background in sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, fine art and digital media, I synthesize ways in which we can tell our plural histories. Research and arts activism conducted with intergenerational BIPOC peoples has allowed for me to apply various teaching and learning practices towards art-making, curating interactive exhibitions and programming.

As a first-generation Mexican-American–I identify as a Native+Chicanx Indīgena, raised in Kuruvungna (West Los Angeles)–much of my own fluid identity informs my research interests in Mesoamerican ethno-archaeology, education, and museum & curatorial studies. The driving force of my research and artistic practice is the trajectory of storytelling as means of performing personal identity and mapping memories.