Working across studio, installation, social practice and performance, Venezuelan-American artist Mariángeles Soto-Díaz considers how we might decenter violence–epistemic, structural and domestic. The social practice dimension of her work involves collaborations with her martial art teachers and colleagues, participatory projects, instruction-based works, and experimental performance. Recent projects have been presented at the Orange County Museum of Art, Grand Central Art Center, MASS MoCA, El Museo del Barrio, Stanley Museum, LACE, Smack Mellon, the Torrance Art Museum, CENTURY.idee bauhaus in Berlin, 18th Street Art Center, and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. She was part of the feminist Soho20 Chelsea Gallery in NY and collaborates with the international, fourth wave Tomorrow Girls Troop. She is the founder of the Unconfirmed Makeshift Museum (UMM), a nomadic platform for contemporary art. At the University of California, Irvine, she is currently a Lecturer in the Art Department and a Research Associate in the Latin American Studies Center.