Natali Herrera-Pacheco is a Venezuelan artist, scholar, and educator whose work unfolds at the intersection of music, image, and narrative. Her practice moves between sound and vision, between what is heard, remembered, and seen, tracing the ways music inhabits language, bodies, and memory.
She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as well as graduate training in Ethnohistory and Art History from the Universidad de Los Andes. Her research explores Venezuelan musical rituals and the relationship between music and literature, particularly in the work of Dominican writer Marcio Veloz Maggiolo. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the Modern Language Association Convention (2025), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the University of Granada.
As an artist, she works with photography and video as spaces of listening. Her interdisciplinary collaborations, including Negative Image and Interludio, developed with composer Carolina Heredia and performed by Khemia Ensemble, bring together moving image and contemporary music in dialogue. Her work has been presented at venues such as National Sawdust and the MoxSonic Experimental Sonic Arts Festival.
Her photographic practice centers on musicians, capturing the tension between movement and stillness, as well as the quiet, fleeting narratives of the street. Her images have appeared in publications such as The Sun Magazine and Humana Obscura, and in exhibitions in the United States and Venezuela.
Alongside her artistic and scholarly work, Natali is a Spanish instructor at the University of North Texas, where she teaches language and culture through an interdisciplinary lens. Her teaching is grounded in the belief that language learning is also an artistic act, one that invites students to listen, interpret, and create meaning.
She is also the founder and Director of Research of Strings of Latin America (SOLA), an initiative dedicated to increasing the visibility of Latin American composers and repertoire. Through SOLA, she has contributed to publications, curated projects, and educational resources, including collaborations with the Sphinx Organization.
Natali is fluent in Spanish, English, and French. She lives in Texas with her husband and their cats.