Biography
Ana Quiroz
Visual artist born in Mexico City, works and lives in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.
Her work is a reflection of her concern for the social and political problems of Mexico, using both sculpture and installation with different materials like recycled glass, resin, bones or plastic. Her interests also relate to collective and social practice and the new relations and possibilities of art and education.
Ana Quiroz received in 2021 her Ph.D. degree in Arts and Design at National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M) with an Honorable Mention. Her research examines the resurgence of socio-political engagement in Mexican contemporary art. She has taught for over 20 years at a number of universities and art institutions in Mexico. She has received several recognitions and grants for her sculptures and installations like: 3rd Place in Sculpture in II Biennial Olga Costa in 2020, Honorable Mention in First Biennial Barco in León in 2021, First Prize in VI International Biennial of Banners in Tijuana in 2010 y First Prize in II Biennial of Glass in Monterrey in 2008, among others. In 2023 she received the grant PECDA Guanajuato for Artists with Experience.
From 1997 to 2012, she was the co-director of the gallery Kunsthaus Santa Fe in San Miguel de Allende and the Kunsthaus in Miami, during which time she produced and curated over 90 expositions in Mexico and abroad. As of 2012, she has been organizing independent expositions and projects whose main goal is the diffusion of Mexican contemporary art. Since 2022 she is part of the Council of Museums of the Cultural Institute of the State of Guanajuato.
Quiroz has taken part in art residency programs with grants in Czeck Republic by Art Mill in 2023, in the U.S. by Creative Fusion, Cleveland Art Foundation and Art House in 2021, in France by Caza d’Oro Centre d’art contemporain in 2015, and in Argentina by FONCA in 2013.
She has participated in more than 50 group exhibitions in different countries in America and Europe and more than 20 solo shows in Mexico, U.S. and France. Her work belongs to public collections like the International Glass Biennial in Bulgaria, Art Nexus in Colombia, Nassau County Museum of Art in New York and CECUT Cultural Centre in Tijuana, among others.
Since 2017 her artistic work has also focused on developing community projects visual arts both in Mexico and the United States with migrant, rural and urban communities with groups of young students, children and women.