Born in Mexico City in 1966. Lives and works in San Miguel de Allende and Mexico City.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Mis once anillos semipreciosos, Ache Galería, San Luis Potosí. Curator Selma Guisande.
2023 Algo de algo, Galería Libertad. Querétaro, México.
2020 Particiones, Museo Olga Costa y José Chávez, Museo Conde Rull, Festival Internacional Cervantino. Curator Humberto Moro.
2019 Galería Teresa del Conde, Casa Cultura Celaya, Celaya.
2018 Festival Tierra Adentro, Aculco, Edo. México.
2017 Sin artificios, Museo Torres Bicentenario, Toluca.
2015-2016 “Reparaciones”, Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro.
2015 “Reparations”, Caza d’oro, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Mas d’Azil, France.
2014 “LP Laberintos y parabolas”,Gallery Diéresis, Guadalajara.
2012 “Pasado Presente”, Celda Contemporánea, Univ.Claustro Sor Juana, Mexico City.
2011 Site Specific Installation “Echar a perder”, Festival Latitud 19 Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City.
2008 “Extinct species”, Kunsthaus Santa Fe, San Miguel de Allende.
2007 Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Instalación, Casa de la Cultura, León. México.
2007 “Invasiones”, Gallery Jesús Gallardo, University Guanajuato, Guanajuato.
2006 “ANAL IS”, Kunsthaus Miami, Miami, Fl.
2005 “Pepe-nado”, Site specific installation, Guanajuato. XXXIII Festival Internacional Cervantino.
2005 “Todo lo malo se contagia”, Grisell Villasana Art Space, León.
2005 “White lies”, City Museum, Santiago de Querétaro.
2004 “Conjuntos Abandonados”, Gallery Artealterno, Oaxaca.
2003 “100% No Reciclado”, Gallery Puente 15, Santiago de Querétaro.
2003 “i al cubo”, Sala El Atrio, University de Guanajuato, Guanajuato.
2002 “Esta mierda nuestra“, Kunsthaus Santa Fé, San Miguel de Allende.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Terrae Motus, Galería Intersección, San Miguel de Allende.
2024 Camino Trazado, PAAC Museo Casa Diego Rivera Guanajuato.
2024 Homenaje a Marge Failoni, Galería Intersección, San Miguel de Allende.
2024 Nuevo Cromo, Bóveda Entorno de Arte, León.
2023 En los caminos de Guanajuato, Museo de Arte e Historia de Guanajuato, León.
2023 Panoramas y perspectivas, Palacio de los Poderes, Guanajuato.
2023 2a. Bienal Barco, León, Gto. México.
2022 1st. International Glass Biennial, Costa Rica, Cartago Museum, Costa Rica.
2022 Mujeres que miran, Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Museo Irapuato. Mx.
2021 2nd International Glass Biennial, Sofía, Bulgary.
2021 Mouse Hole, Current Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, US.
2021 Tiahue Tocha, Visible Records, Charlottesville, US.
2021 Pisando lodo, River House Arts Gallery, Toledo, Ohio. US.
2021 I Barco Bienal, ICL, León, Gto. Mx.
2021 II Bienal Olga Costa, Museo Olga Costa y José Chávez, Gto. Mx.
2020 Ternura Radical, Galería Dos Topos, León, Gto.
2020 La Table et le Territoire, Art Mill, Horaždovice, Rep. Checa
2018 Brutalismo, Casa Europa, San Miguel de Allende.
2018 Homenaje a T. del Conde, Casa Cultura Celaya, Gto.
2017 Transgresión, Centro Cultural de México Contemporáneo, Cd.Mx.
2017 Betsabeé Romero, Daniela Edburg, Annete Kuhn, Ana Quiroz, Galería Intersección, San Miguel de Allende, Gto.
2016 Mujer latinoamericana, Río de Janeiro, Brasil.
2016 Arte vivo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City.
2015 Una línea de polvo. Arte y drogas. Centro Cultural Kavlin, Punta Del Este, Uruguay, Cementerio do peine, Belo Horizonte, Brasil. Curator Santiago Rueda.
2015 Soy Mujer Soy Latinoamericana. Plataform Latinoamerican Female Artists
2014 Objeto, Casa de la Cultura, Celaya. Kunsthaus Santa Fe, San Miguel de Allende.
2014 La mesa puesta, La Gloria , Mexico City.
2014-2015 Testigo del Siglo, Art Museum of Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2014 Control de territorios, Kunsthaus Santa Fe, San Miguel de Allende.
2014 Símbolo, diversidad y alteridad, Museum of Art and History of Gto, León.
2013-2015 Artesano – Artistas 3.0, Museum of Popular Arts, Mexico City. CECUT, Tijuana
2013 Retro futuro, FIAC, León, Guanajuato.
2012 Replicants, Galerie Tallmart, París, France.
2012 Festival Internacional Arte Contemporáneo, Instituto de Cultura de León, León, México.
2011 VI Biennial of Visual Arts of Yucatán, Center of Visual Arts, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
2011 Ala Blanca, Partituras visuales de Felipe Ehrenberg, Univ. of Guanajuato, Mexico.
2011 Museum of Contemporary Art Alfredo Zalce, Morelia.
2011 “Diversidad”, Museum Chopo, Mexico City.
2010 “Ultrasweet”, Galería Jesús Gallardo, León, Guanajuato.
2010 SMART, Miami Dade College, Miami.
2010 VI International Biennial of Banners, CECUT, Tijuana.
2010 “Latinas”, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York.
2010 “Axis México”, Miami Dade College, Miami.
2009 ZONA MACO, Kunsthaus Miami, Mexico City.
2008 PINTA, Art Fair, NewYork, N.Y.
2008 “Insumisas, estridentes”, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Alhóndiga de Granaditas, Guanajuato.
2008 2nd Glass Biennial, Glass Museum, Monterrey, N.L.
2008 “Neurotic Playground”, Red Head Gallery,Toronto, Canadá.
2008 “Urnas”, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Alhóndiga de Granaditas, Guanajuato.
2008 “Between walls”, University of Miami, Miami, Fl.
2007 Berliner Liste, Berlín, Germany.
2007 MACO, Kunsthaus Miami, Mexico City.
2007 “Entre Muros”, University of Guanajuato, and Casa de las Monas, León.
2006 Arte Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
2006 Hollywood Museum, Hollywood, Florida, US.
2006 “Limbo”, Museum Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
2006 ARCO 06, Madrid, Spain.
2006 “Today, Hoy, aujourdui”, Teatro Juárez, Guanajuato, Teatro M.Doblado, León.
2005 “Encuentro de Maquillaje”, Universidad de Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City.
2005 Art Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela.
2005 Chicago C&C, Chicago.
2004-05 II Biennial of Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán.
2004 ArtIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey.
2004 First Glass Contest, Glass Museum, Monterrey, México.
2004 “Big pieces small spaces”, Gallerie Occurence, Montreal, Canadá.
2004 III Biennial of Banners, CECUT, Tijuana, B.C.
2004 “7M”, City Museum,Santiago de Querétaro.
2003 1st Biennial of University Art, Palacio de las Diligencias, Toluca, México.
2003 Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Toronto, Canadá.
2002 Museum of Contemporary Art of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes.
2002 Contemporanea 2002, Miami.
2002 Flotan, XXX Festival Internacional Cervantino, University of Guanajuato.
2002 Museum of Contemporary Art Alfredo Zalce, Morelia, Mexico.
2002 “Vida -Ritual-Muerte”, Casa Hispanoamericana, Milán, Italy.
2001″Platéa Fémina” Casa Arte3, León.
2001 “Cruzando Fronteras”, Ex temple de San Agustín, Zacatecas, Mexico.
2001 Museum Ángel Zárraga, Durango.
2001 Cultural Center Nuevo Laredo, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
2001 Cultural Center of Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico.
RESIDENCIES
2023 Residency Artmill, Horaždovice, Check Rep.
2021 Residency Art House and Creative Fusion, Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, U.S.A.
2019 Visiting artist, University Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Commonwealth Univ. Richmond.
2019 Rasquache Residency, Cholula, Puebla, Mx.
2018 Visiting artist, Rasquache Residency, University of Virginia, Virginia. E.U.
2017 Visiting artist, Rasquache Residency, Cholula, Puebla, Mx.
2015 Grant for Artistic Residency, Caza d’Oro, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Mas d’Azil, France.
2013 Grant for Artistic Residency, Argentina, FONCA – CONACULTA, Mexico.
2008 Benefactor Grant, Artistic Residency in Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, U.S.A.
GRANTS AND RECOGNITIONS
2022-23 Grant for Artists with Trajectory, FONCA-PECDA, Guanajuato.
2021 Selected 3rd. International Glass Biennial, Sofía, Bulgary.
2021 Honorific Mention, I Biennial Barco, León, Mexico.
2021 Third Prize Sculpture, II Biennial Olga Costa, Guanajuato, Mexico.
2010 First Prize, International Biennial of Banners, CECUT, Tijuana, México.
2008 First Prize, 2nd International Biennial of Glass, Glass Museum, Monterrey, México.
2004 2nd Place. First Glass Contest, Glass Museum, Monterrey, Mexico.
2004 CONACULTA- FONCA, Grant for Artists from the State of Guanajuato.
2002/2003 CONACULTA- FONCA, Grant for Program for Cultural Projects, Group Kunsthaus. Mexico.
1999/2000 CONACULTA- FONCA, Grant for Program for Cultural Projects, Group Kunsthaus. Mexico.
COLLECTIONS
Collection Instituto de Cultura del Estado de Guanajuato
FUNDAVI, Glass Foundation, San José , Costa Rica.
International Glass Biennial, Sofía, Bulgary.
CulturalCenter Tijuana, Tijuana, B.C.
Cultural Center Guanajuato, León, Gto.
Glass Museum, Monterrey, México.
Art Nexus Collection,Bogotá, Colombia.
Nassau County Museum of Art, New York
Collection Kunsthaus Santa Fe, México
Private collections in México, Germany, Canada, France, Peru, Colombia, Puerto Rico and U.S.A.
ACADEMIC STUDIES
2016 – 2021 PHD in Arts and Design, National University of Mexico, U.N.A.M, Mexico City. Honorable Mention.
2009 – 2013 Master Visual Arts, U.N.A.M, Mexico City. Honorable Mention.
“Thesis “Post 94: Mexican Art, the of political and social dimension. Some cases”.
2011 Seminar with Phd. Ana Longoni,“Poéticas políticas”, MUAC, UNAM, Mexico City.
2001 Seminar “New disciplines in contemporary art”, Guillermo Santamarina, University of Guanajuato.
1996 – 1997 University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. Art History. International Courses.
1994 – 1996 UniversityValle de México, San Miguel de Allende, México.
Diploma on Mexican Art History.
1988 – 1989 Instituto Lorenzo de Medici. Art History. Florence.
Fuji Studio. Textiles, Florence, Italy.
1984 – 1988 University Anáhuac. Mexico City, Graduate Program in Actuarial Sciences.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018 Univ. Guanajuato, Departamento de Artes Plásticas, BFA; Workshop “Socially engaged art.”
2016 Universidad de Guanajuato , Escuela de Artes Plásticas, Workshop ”Comercialización y venta de la obra arte”
2012 – 2017 Diploma Certificate “20th century Art History”
Cultural Center El Nigromante, INBA, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
2012- 2022 Instituto Allende, BFA Teacher, San Miguel de Allende, Gto.
Contemporary Art History and Aesthetics.
2006 -2008 y 2011 BFA Teacher, University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, México.
Mexican Contemporary Art History and. Mixed Media Lab.
1997- 2005 Instituto Allende, BFA Teacher, San Miguel de Allende, Gto.
Mexican Contemporary Art History and. Mixed Media Lab.
GALLERY EXPERIENCE
1997 –2011 Kunsthaus Santa Fé. San Miguel de Allende, Gto. And Kunsthaus Miami Contemporary Art Space. Miami, Fl. Position: Co-director.
During 15 years, with owner, artist and founder Lothar Müller, both galleries produced over 90 solo and group exhibitions for Mexican and foreign artists.
As gallery codirector participated since 2002 until 2011 in over 30 contemporary art fairs like: ARCO, Madrid, ZONA MACO, Mexico City, SCOPE NY, SCOPE Miami, Art Miami, ARTBO Bogotá, Photo Paris, Berliner Liste, Buenos Aires Photo, among others.
The gallery organized several projects with other galleries and universities in Mexico, U.S., Canada and Italy. Since 1997 the project also gathered the collection of Kunsthaus which now is preserved and still borrowed for exhibitions.
INDEPENDENT ART PROJECTS
2022 Member of the Council of Museums, Cultural Institute of the State of Guanajuato.
Advisor in Contemporary Art.
2021 Revolver los tiempos. 10 Artists from Guanajuato. Curaduría Festival Internacional
Cervantino 2021. Museo Olga Costa y José Chávez Morado. Guanajuato.
2016-2017 Revisiones, Helen Escobedo. Curator Ana Quiroz. Galería Metropolitana, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City.
2016 Mutaciones, Curator, Galería Metropolitana, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City
2011-2017 Member of the Board of Museum of Mexican Women Artists, platform for promotion and exhibition of Mexican Women Artists. www.museodemujeres.com
2013-2014 Curator with Daniela Edburg the exhibition “The Taming Power of the Small”
Itinerated in Kunsthaus Santa Fe, San Miguel de Allende and Gallery Jesús Gallardo, León, in collaboration with Museum of Mexican Women Artists and Cultural Center of León.
OTHER SOCIAL PROJECTS
2021 Workshop, Memory Atlas with immigrant children at Natividad Pagan Newcomers Academy, Cleveland Ohio
2019 Recycling and Art, Art Students in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
2019 Tutoring indigenous community, San Francisco Coapan, Puebla.
2012-2015 Member of artist activist collective Veinteparalascuatro.
1993-2001 ARTESANO, Crafts workshops and commercialization with groups of women in communities in San Miguel de Allende.
1992-1994 Alphabetize Adults in communities in San Miguel de Allende. National Institute of Education for Adults.
2012-2016 Member of Council of Museum of Mexican Women Artists.
CATALOGUES
2024 Mis once anillos semipreciosos, Ache Galería, San Luis Potosí.
2023 2a. Bienal Barco, León.
2021 Memory Atlas, Creative Fusion, Cleveland Art Foundation and Art House.
2021 Third International Glass Biennale, Sofía, Bulgary. 38-41.
2020 Humberto Moro, Particiones, Artes Visuales, Festival Intl. Cervantino, Gto.,2020. 38-41.
2018 Migraciones y creación. Antropologías de frontera. UNESCO; Mexico City.
2016 Arte Vivo, Museo Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 2016.
2015 Univ. Claustro Sor Juana, Exposiciones de Celda Contemporánea, Mexico City, 2015.
2014 Arte/sano Artistas 3.0, Museo de Arte Popular, 128-129.
2010 ES2010,VI Bienal Internacional de Estandartes de Tijuana, Conaculta CECUT, 28,29.
2010 Miami Dade College, Art Gallery System, Miami, Fl. 37.
2010 SMART, Miami Dade College, Miami, Fl. 80.
2008 Museo de Arte e Historia de Guanajuato, 20 – 21.
2008 PINTA Art Fair, New York. 86.
2008 Neurotic Playground, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canadá, 4.
2008 2a. Bienal del Vidrio, Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, 17, 18, 42.
2008 Expresión en Corto Film Festival, p. 105.
2007 Teachers of Fine Arts, University of Guanajuato, Gto, p.20.
2005 International Kids Fund, Miami, Fl. 216-217.
2005 XXIII Festival International Cervantino, Cat., 154-157.
2005 First Glass Contest, Glass Museum, Monterrey, N.L.,11-19.
2005 Art Miami 2005, Cat. p. 71.
2004 ES2004 Tijuana. III International Biennial of Standarts, 64.
2004 Art Istanbul 2004, 65.
2004 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada. 67.
2003 First Biennial for Art in Universities, Toluca, 129.
2003 Muestra 2, Contemporary Art Fair, Mexico City, 56.
2002 Contemporanea 2002, Nader Editions, Miami, Fl. p. 56.
2002 Territorios X, catálogo, León, Gto. 15.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017 El Heraldo de Toluca, http://hgrupoeditorial.com/Articulos/Articulo/4801/27/
2018 Preparan actividades artístico culturales, El Sol de Toluca, 21 enero 2018,
2011 Santiago Espinosa, VI Bienal Internacional de Estandartes, Art Nexus #72, Bogota, p.120-122.
2008 Revista Arquine # 42, Mexico D.F, p.85.
2006 Arte al Límite #20, Ana Quiroz Diatribas plásticas, Santiago, Chile, p. 38-41.
2006 Ilana Leyva , Ana Quiroz Kunsthaus Santa Fé, Art Nexus #61, p. 134-135.
2006 Alfredo Triff Arteamericas 2006, Arte al día, Art NEWS MEX #27, Mexico City., p. 3
2006 Marcela Costa Peuser ARCO 2006, Arte al día, Art NEWS MEX#26, Mexico City., p. 5.
2006 Alfredo Triff, Arteamericas 2006 Arte al Día #112, Miami, p. 28 .
2005 Art Nexus # 57, Marisol Martell , p.118.
2005 Carol Damián , Art Nexus # 56, p.128.
2004 Marisol Martell Arteamericas, Art Nexus #53, p. 104.
2004 Arte al día News Mex, Año 1,No. 9, p. 8.
2003 Santiago Espinosa de los Monteros Muestra 2, Art Nexus #48, p.113.
2003 Blanca González, El Mercado del arte contemporáneo en México, Proceso #1381, Mexico City p.68
WRITINGS & PUBLICATIONS
2018 “Sobre la posición ética del artista”, Migraciones y creación. Antropologías de frontera. UNESCO; Mexico City. 2018, 220-231.
2016 Revisiones, Helen Escobedo. Curaduría. Galería Metropolitana, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City.
2016 Mutaciones, Curaduría exposición colectiva pintura. Galería Metropolitana, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City.
2015 Ensayo “Estéticas del Disturbio”, en Museo Mujeres Arte Goce Encuentro, Mexico City, 2015.
2009 Lari Pittman y Roy Dowell dos en uno, XXXVII International Cervantino Festival, 249-253.
2008 Perla Krauze, Registros, Revista Arte al Día No. 37, Mexico City, p. 9.
2008 Michael Wiebach. Por el retrovisor, Catalog for the exhibition. Mexico City. 4.
2007 Dulce Pinzón. La verdadera historia de los superhéroes, ¡Expresión en Corto Film F, 405.
2007 Miguel Angel Garrido. Animal en celo, Festival de Cine Expresión en Corto, 405.
Kunsthaus se define mejor., Catálogo Expresión en Corto Film Fest, 362.
2007 Boris Viskin, Vaivén, Magazine Arte al Día No. 30 , Mexico City, 4.
2006 Boris Viskin, Vaivén XXXIV International Cervantino Festival, Catalog of Visual Arts, 162- 163.
2005 El avión se va, Michael Wiebach, Magazine Lo mejor del Petit Journal, San Miguel de Allende, 110.
2005 Tania Candiani, Salón Bancomer, Catálogo Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico. 253.
2004 Jan Hendrix, XXL XXS, XXXII International Cervantino Festival, 266.
2003 Esta mierda nuestra, Ana Quiroz, Kunsthaus Santa Fe. México, 5.
2003 Tania Candiani, XXXI International Cervantino Festival, catalog of Visual Arts, 194- 195.
2002 Marta Palau. Añoranzas de tierra. Cruzando fronteras Catálogo, Univ. de Lérida, Lérida, Spain. 2.
2002 Kunsthaus Santa Fé, Magazine Casas y Gente No. 51, Mexico City, 55.
2002 Territorios X, Catálogo, León, Gto. México. 3-6.
2002 “Bagajes”, Santiago Corral, Valladolid, Spain. 4.
CONFERENCES
2022 Museos y comunidad, Day of the Museums, Palacio de los Poderes, Guanajuato.
2022 Museum night , Guanajuato, Conversatorio Rafael Rodríguez.
2021 PHD Students Conference, U.N.A.M, August 2021.
2019 Art as Social Practice in Latin America, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA.
2019 Art as Social Practice in Latin America, University of Virginia, USA.
2019 Modelos pedágógicos arte y educación, Centro Cultural Nigromante, San Miguel de Allende.
2019 El dibujo como proyecto, Universidad Guanajuato, México.
2019 Proyecto Rasquache, Casa de la Cultura San Andrés Cholula, México.
2018 Presentación libro Rodrigo Lara Memorials, Centro Cultural Nigromante, San Miguel de Allende.
2016 Foro UNESCO, Art in Transit, Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City.
2015 Mutaciones, Charla con artistas, Galería Metropolitana, UAM, Mexico City.
2015 Museo Mujeres Artistas Mexicanas, Facultad Artes Plásticas, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa.
2015 Presentación libro, MUMA Univ. Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
2015 Presentación libro, Univ. Guanajuato, Guanajuato.
2014 Artist Talk, MUMA, Biblioteca José Vasconcelos, Mexico City.