Adela Goldbard is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar and educator from Mexico. Associate Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and member of the National System of Art Creators of Mexico’s National Endowment for the Arts. She holds an MFA as a Full Merit Fellow in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Language and Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Goldbard investigates how radical community performances can subvert hegemonic narratives, while also exploring the transformative potential of violence and destruction as aesthetic tools in the resistance against power. She is especially interested in how collectively building, staging, and destroying has the potential to generate critical thinking and social transformation. Goldbard’s ongoing investigation focuses on developing a poetics of violence and an anticolonial methodology for participant artistic practice. Recent commissioned projects include a pyrotechnic play with/for the Mexican community of La Villita, Chicago (Gallery 400, University of Illinois, 2019-20), and a socially engaged art project with/for the P’urhépecha community of Arantepacua (FEMSA Biennial, 2020-21). She is currently working on a long-term participant project in the Peruvian Andes. She lives and works between Providence, RI, and Mexico City.