My name is Christopher Carlos Montejo. I am a first-generation Cuban-American educator, curator, and artist from Miami, Florida, based in Boston, Massachusetts. I am currently a museum educator for the MFABoston and a gallery teacher for the ICA Boston.

In 2024, I graduated with a B.A. in Computer Science and Philosophy, with minors in Psychology and Art from Florida International University. My undergraduate studies integrated computational research in cognitive science with art, focusing on play, reasoning, creativity, and perception in early childhood. I synthesize psychology with my work in the humanities to holistically understand our relationship to arts and culture.

My pedagogy is grounded in learning and reasoning through play, as it offers agency in the generative meaning-making of history and culture. Art is a mirror and a window for developing self-identity and empathy, interrupting hierarchies and conventions to cultivate social consciousness. Engaging information-rich art together unearths the pluralism of experience and fosters sensitive, critical, and creative thinking.

My curatorial and community organizing practice is focused on the transcultural dialogues of diaspora in contemporary art of Latin America and the Caribbean. I aim to facilitate critical engagement between art and the public, empowering underserved communities through mobilization and education.

My artistic work is interdisciplinary and rooted in my experience as a son of Cuban immigrants. My dance studies focus on Cuban traditional and modern choreography. My music combines Cuban percussion and musical tradition with American jazz and soul. My visual art transforms discarded found objects into social and political commentary. My writing and poetry blend Cuban rumbero and American beatnik traditions.