Miguel Otero Fuentes is a Puerto Rican sculptor and architect based in Brooklyn, NY. He employs sculpture as a means to learn from reality using geometry, surface, material, light and void. Otero Fuentes holds a Master of Architecture degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the T. Gordon Little Fellowship, participated in design-build studios, worked as a teaching assistant abroad and was involved in research in the areas of digital design and fabrication. During his academic career he won three first place prizes including the distinguished Portman Prize of architecture. He also holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree (with honors) from the University of Puerto Rico. As an architect at Front Inc, Otero Fuentes has been part of the facade design team of buildings designed by the architecture offices of Zaha Hadid Architects, Snohetta, RE X and BIG.