About c. huilo c.

C. Huilo C. is a multidisciplinary artist working across immersive installation, experimental cinema, mask-based performance, and symbolic systems. For more than two decades, their practice has examined how perception constructs identity—how image, space, and collective attention operate as active forces shaping experience. Rather than treating film, objects, and environments as separate media, Huilo C. approaches them as interconnected components within larger perceptual and spatial systems.

Beginning with walk-through installations and sculptural environments in the late 1990s, their work evolved into mask-based immersive performances and projection-mapped installations presented internationally at festivals and residencies in the United States, Mexico, Spain, Greece, and beyond. These projects established a methodology grounded in material fabrication, spatial sequencing, and live technical calibration, allowing images to function as architectural and performative elements rather than flat screens.

From 2010 to 2022, Huilo C. founded and operated Teatro Jaguar Luna in Costa Rica, a long-term arts laboratory dedicated to immersive installation, experimental film, and hybrid performance. Over this period, more than twenty permanent structures—including jungle theaters, miniature cinemas, and architectural installations—were built to support sustained research into spatialized storytelling and audience-centered environments. Within this context, the feature-length cine-arte project Keeper of the Masques and multiple immersive works were developed through iterative cycles of installation, filming, and live audience engagement.

Currently based in New Mexico, Huilo C. continues to develop immersive systems that integrate sculptural masks, projected imagery, and audience movement into environments that resist linear narrative in favor of perceptual exploration. The ongoing Jaguar Portals project extends this research into a mask-based immersive installation focused on how attention, identity, and collective presence are continuously negotiated within spatial experience.

Contact
flight.jaguar@gmail.com

Advertising, Pace University, New York
Environmental Art, New College of California

La Meridiana, Italy
Can Serrat, Spain
El Encanto, Mexico
Ruby’s Clay Studio, San Francisco

Jaguar Portals: The Awakening, FORMah Gallery, New York City (Oct 2024)
Jaguar Portals: The Awakening, Pop-Up Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (Oct 2024)
Open Studios, Dixon, New Mexico (Nov 2025)
Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Blue Gallery, CA
Old School Gallery, NM
Marin Technology Center, CA
Petaluma Arts Center, CA
Installation at Burning Man, NV

Spiegel Tent, New York City
Fringe Festivals — Los Angeles, Boulder, New York City, Washington DC
ComFest, Columbus, OH
Vulcan Warehouse, CA
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, CA
Big Gay Warehouse, CA
Ghosttown, CA

Film & Moving Image

Jaguar Moon Press (Founder & Publisher)
Tales of a Jaguar Magician (five-volume queer mythology; collected edition)
Jaguar Portals: The Awakening

The Washington Post
Time Out New York
New York Sun
Press Democrat (CA)
Bay Times (CA)
Indie Theatre (NY)
WGDR Radio
Gay & Lesbian Review

Big Apple Film Festival — Mentorship Program
DOCfest NYC — Professional Program

Workshops & Training

Writing:
University of Iowa
Stanford University
University of California, Santa Cruz
Squaw Valley Writers
Taos Institute of Arts

Art & Fabrication:
Citadel (bronze casting)
Santa Fe Clay
San Francisco Book Arts Guild
Manos de Oaxaca, Mexico

Teatro Jaguar Luna (Costa Rica) — immersive arts laboratory
Jaguar Bridge Productions — film & media
Jaguar Moon Press — publishing
Deep Woods Productions — art & installation development
Teatro Absurdo — podcast & media
Jaguar Luna Cultural Arts Center — artist residency
Earth Ark — regenerative ecology initiative

Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Audition
Video, sound, and installation systems
Websites, podcasts, digital publishing