Cazorla is an award-winning queer Venezuelan-American interdisciplinary visual artist. She holds a B.A. in Visual Arts from SUNY/Empire State University and an MFA from Lehman College/CUNY. She serves as a Lecturer at Bronx Community College/CUNY and is the Hall of Fame Art Gallery director at the same institution.
 

As a curator, Cazorla brings extensive expertise in contemporary Latin American art. In the 2000s, she founded and directed Galeria Galou— an alternative space for emerging local and international artists focusing on artists of Latin American background in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Cazorla curated over 50 exhibitions, and the gallery participated in many international art fairs.
 

In her inaugural year as an educational gallery director, Cazorla co-curated "Framing The Female Gaze: Women Artists and the New Historicism" in collaboration with Lehman College Art Gallery. She also curated the first new media installation at Bronx Community College, partnering with Sarah Lawrence College on Climate Justice as part of a larger Mellon Foundation-funded initiative.

 

As an artist, Cazorla has showcased her work in national and international exhibitions, museums, private galleries, art fairs, and universities. Since 2010, she has collaborated comprehensively with artist Nancy Saleme, exploring immigration issues, equality, and identity through a blend of digital and traditional media art projects. Cazorla + Saleme, as the artist duo is known, have received exhibitions, commissions, residencies, and grants from respected institutions such as the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, the Puffin Foundation, UNIQLO/NYC Parks, and El Museo del Barrio. The duo has undertaken public art commissions from the Garment District Alliance, NYC Department of Transportation, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and NYC Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine.

 

Cazorla + Saleme has recently been awarded the Brooklyn Arts Fund by the Brooklyn Arts Council grant, the Newark Artist Accelerator Grant, the Newark Artist Collaboration by Audible, the City of Newark Creative Catalyst Fund Grant, the City Artist Corps Grant/NYFA, and the Art Bridge Projects Grant/NYC Cultural Affairs Grant.