EDUCATION

2018 Montclair State University, MFA Studio Art, Art and Design Graduate Assistantship
2016 Parsons, The New School, Fine Art and Foundations Program (certificate)
2006 Rutgers University, BA, Theater Arts and Speech, International Affairs

SHOWS/EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS/AWARDS
 
2024 New Jersey Individual Artist Award Fellowship, State of New Jersey
2024 City of Newark, Creative Catalyst Grant Recipient 
2024 Touch Me: Feeling Fashion, William Paterson University, Ben Shahn Center of Visual Arts, University Galleries, Wayne, NJ
2023 City of Newark, Creative Catalyst Grant Recipient 
FALL 2022 Château d’Orquevaux Artist-in-Residence at The Denis Diderot [A-i-R] Grant –Champagne-Ardenne, France
Oct 2022 – Performance – Untitled (ver/see) – Château d’Orquevaux -Champagne-Ardenne, France
Oct. 2022- Present Permanent Installation at Château farmhouse of (to see/ver) – Château d’Orquevaux -Champagne-Ardenne, France
JUNE 2- AUGUST 30, 2022 Slippage, 601 Artspace – New York, NY
JUNE 2022 Light as a Feather, Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
SUMMER 2022 Hayama Artist Residency – Hayama, Japan
March 2022 – Performance – Invited Artist – “greenhowiwantyougreen” by David Antonio Cruz MoAD San Francisco, SanFrancisco, CA
Jan. 2022 – Cultural Genes: Individual and Tradition in Contemporary Art, DOXA Sculpture, Luo Zhongli Art Museum, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, CHONGQING, SICHUAN, CHINA
Winter 2022 – Yard Concept Journal- Winter 2022 Rooted, “We are Made of Boats” and Unitlted (terra/daca) 2021,https://www.yard-concept.com/journal/nadia-lis-estela
OCT. 2 – DEC 20, 2021 HEAVY IS THE ROOT OF THE DAWN SOLO SHOW, PROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE, NEWARK, NJ
Weekly Untitled (ver/see) Performance – every Friday during the duration of the exhibition. 
2020 – 2021 Personal Landscapes Exhibition Untitled (valla/verja), 2019 Montclair Art Museum, MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY, NJ
2021 Project for Empty Space, Artist in Residence – Newark, NJ
2021 City of Newark, Creative Catalyst Grant Recipient 
2020 Newark Artist Accelerator Grant 2020, which is made possible by the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation.
2020 Creative Capital, Artist Relief Grant
2020 New York Foundation of the Arts, Tri-State Grant
2020 Millay Colony for the Arts, Visual Artist Residency – Austerlitz, NY
Fall 2020 – Project for Empty Space – Maternal Journal PUBLICATION Memory letter and Fabric, 2019 PES, Project for Empty Space NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
Dec. 2019 – The Latin American Contemporary Fine Art Competition Exhibition, Agora Gallery at White Space, CHELSEA, NEW YORK, NY
September – October 21, 2018 – Juxtaposed Group Show  Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center ALEXANDRIA, VA
2019 Vermont Studio Center, Painting Residency – Artist Grant Award – Johnson, VT
May 2018 – MFA Thesis Exhibition, American Medium Gallery, Chelsea NEW YORK, NY
Feb – April 2018 Invited Artist Performance  “greenhowiwantyougreen” by David Antonio Cruz
April 2018 Rutgers State University NEWARK, NJ
March 2018 Montclair State University MONTCLAIR, NJ
February 2018 Ramapo College MAHWAH, NJ
February 27 – March 2018 – NEW AMERICANS: Deborah Guzman Meyer Solo Show Curator, Warren County Community College
January 27- March 4, 2018 – Passages Group Show, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory ALEXANDRIA, VA

ARTIST TALKS

July 2022 – ARTIST TALK, “Light as a Feather”, w/ Dexter Wimberly and lin meyer – Newark Museum of Art -Tokyo, Japan
Dec 2021 – ARTIST TALK, “heavy is the root of the dawn”, w/ David Antonio Cruz – Project for Empty Space – Newark, NJ
Nov 2021 – Artist as Global Citizen, Newark Museum – Newark, NJ –
October 2019 – Yard Concept Reader, Toni Morrison’s Source of Self Regard Talk Reader and Presenter, Gavin Brown Enterprises – New York, NY Summer 2019 – Yard Concept Reading List https://www.yard-concept.com/reading-list-00
November 2018 – Mycology, Migration, Meandering: Being Curious with Nadia Estela – P O L Y A R T O L O G Y – Interview with Kevin Kolankowski. https://polyartology.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/mycology-migration-meandering-nadia- estela/
May 9, 2018 – LaTableRonde (LTR) LTR# 6.4, a roundtable discussion On Social Imagination. Critical Practices Inc., New York, NY
March 28, 2018 – NEW AMERICANS: Deborah Guzman Meyer Artist Talk Presenter and Curator, Warren County Community College – Warren, NJ
Feb 8, 2018 – Passages Group Show Gallery Talk Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center – Richmond, VA
October 26, 2017 – In Burchfield Wake: Artist Respond to the Environment Presenter, Montclair Art Museum in collaboration with Montclair State University
March 29, 2017 – “WE ARE ALL MIGRANTS” Art Panel Curator and Moderator, Montclair State University – Montclair, NJ