Team
Otero Fuentes sculpts material into potential, shaping glimpses of a reality where form and function converge into an extraordinary concept that can be felt, reimagined, and fully experienced. As both sculptor and architect, he transforms potential into beauty, crafting each piece with precision and purpose. His work is a testament to artistry—where the poetics of craft emerge through structure, movement, and vision, seamlessly becoming one.
Born in Puerto Rico, Miguel is a migrant to the USA and a university-trained architect licensed in New York and Florida, currently working at Front. As a sculptor, his practice bridges the pragmatism, aesthetics, and harmonics of architecture with the transcendental—a metaphysical thread woven through sculpture. His work evokes feelings beyond the tangible, expressing things we cannot hold but can feel. Through his sculptures, an ongoing exploration unfolds, where the cosmologies of perception reveal patterns and cycles, interrupted through thought and the creative act. Gaps, ridges, fleeting shadows of being, and the spirit of form converge, shaping a dimension of intentionality where materiality and meaning merge into a profound artistic language meant not to be dissolved by discourse, but to be contemplated and lived.
Born in Puerto Rico, Miguel is a migrant to the USA and a university-trained architect licensed in New York and Florida, currently working at Front. As a sculptor, his practice bridges the pragmatism, aesthetics, and harmonics of architecture with the transcendental—a metaphysical thread woven through sculpture. His work evokes feelings beyond the tangible, expressing things we cannot hold but can feel. Through his sculptures, an ongoing exploration unfolds, where the cosmologies of perception reveal patterns and cycles, interrupted through thought and the creative act. Gaps, ridges, fleeting shadows of being, and the spirit of form converge, shaping a dimension of intentionality where materiality and meaning merge into a profound artistic language meant not to be dissolved by discourse, but to be contemplated and lived.
Alitza Otero
is a Puerto Rican painter, anthropologist-historian, architectural designer, and museum professional. She is a PhD candidate in Sustainable Heritage at University College London, specialising in Critical Heritage Studies. Her academic research examines cultures of informality and future-making by questioning how meaning is produced at the intersection of creativity, politics, urban development, disaster, and conflict. Through a blend of creative practice and philosophical inquiry, she explores how transformations in the built environment shape cultural memory and the ongoing production of collective identity.
As a collaborator and partner at Otero Fuentes, Alitza Otero works alongside her husband, Miguel Otero-Fuentes, to develop and extend the studio’s artistic practice across public, curatorial, and interdisciplinary contexts. Through a synthesis of material expression, project development, programming, and curatorial practice, their work expands the studio’s creative vision through alternative approaches and forms that integrate culture and technology with critical and ethical rigour. Together, they ground their practice in close attention to lived social realities, embracing difference and care as generative forces for cultural production and critical engagement.
As a collaborator and partner at Otero Fuentes, Alitza Otero works alongside her husband, Miguel Otero-Fuentes, to develop and extend the studio’s artistic practice across public, curatorial, and interdisciplinary contexts. Through a synthesis of material expression, project development, programming, and curatorial practice, their work expands the studio’s creative vision through alternative approaches and forms that integrate culture and technology with critical and ethical rigour. Together, they ground their practice in close attention to lived social realities, embracing difference and care as generative forces for cultural production and critical engagement.