Dr. Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda (b. Guadalajara, Méxcio 1973) is a Mexican-Canadian interdisciplinary media artist and cultural historian. Her research centres on the histories of women and feminism(s) at the intersection of art, media, science and technology, specifically focusing on Latin American artists.  She is Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University in Canada, on the unceded Coast Salish territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations. In SIAT, Gabriela leads the criticalMediaArtsStudio (cMAS), an interdisciplinary research-creation studio that produces work that interrogates how old and new technologies have and continue to shape our sense of self through a theoretical lens informed by media and feminist theory.

Gabriela is the author of the award-winning book  Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in post-1968 Mexico (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) in Spanish translation, Las mujeres se hacen visibles : los feminismos en el arte y los nuevos regímenes mediáticos y de visualidad en la Ciudad de México, 1971-2011 ( Bonilla Aritgas, CIEG, 2022). With Analays Alvarez and Zaira Zarza she is co-editor of Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian Experiences and Practices in Film, New Media and Visual Arts (Concordia Press, forthcoming). Her academic publications on feminist media art, archival practices, sound studies, research-creation, and Latin American art and its diasporas appear in numerous edited volumes and in The Feminist Media Histories Journal, Leonardo Music Journal, Media-N: the Journal of the New Media Caucus, The Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, among other journals.

Her research-creation practice concerns the production of collaborative multimedia projects investigating the body as a site of cultural, gendered and techno-scientific inscriptions. Recent productions include  Body as Borders: Traces and Flows of Connection (2022) and Mitochondrial Ontologies: Deep Time and the Digital (2020-2024). Her video installations have been exhibited in Canada, Mexico, France, India, Chile and the U.S.,  and most recently at SUR Gallery (Toronto, 2023) and Mónica Reyes Gallery (Vancouver, 2024).

Gabriela is a member of Art/mamas, a Vancouver-based collective of artist mothers and sono(soro)ridades, a group of feminist sound artists, activists and scholars interested in investigating sound’s affective and political dimensions. She is also a member of CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts and the Vancouver regional coordinator of TFAP (the Feminist Art Project) at Rutgers University. She is on the editorial board for the peer-reviewed journal Feminist Art Practices and Research: Cosmos (Taylor & Francis). She regularly serves as a jury and reader for ISEA, SIGGRAPH, and CAA. Previously, she served as a board member for VIVO MEDIA ARTS and ACCESS art gallery in Vancouver, B.C., and C.A.F.K.A (The Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener and Area) in Kitchener, Ontario. She was also a member of the REDHEAD Gallery in Toronto and the A.K.A. art collective based in Vancouver.

She is currently working on a book manuscript on the history of electronic and avant-garde music entitled Weaving the Electric Wave: Latin American Women Composers, 1888 -1980.