MPA is performance and visual artist. Enriched with ritual and theatricality, her artworks critically examine behaviors of power and have proposed questions on the global arms race, patriarchy as governance, life on another planet, and the dysfunctional union of art with capitalist commodity. Her art is expressed through installation, performance, sculpture, and photography. Primary colors often function as bold, energetic conduits along-side architectural interventions in installations that can function as the environments for her live art. A frequent collaborator, MPA is a visible muse for many contemporary photographers and filmmakers. Her artworks have been widely exhibited, including the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hammer Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Gessnerallee Theater, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca. Since 2013, MPA has been a visiting professor of art at the California Institute of Art and in the New Genres Art Department at UCLA. For more on her teaching approach, please read here.
In 2023, MPA returned to character acting, studying at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles, CA. Presently, she is expanding her live artwork Orbit, that debuted at the Whitney Museum in 2017, into a TV program; and editing the forthcoming book RED PAGES that documents material recorded in her 2016-17 art work The Interview.