JULIETA BARRIOS

JULIETA BARRIOS (Toluca, Mexico, 1985). She studied a Masters in Visual Arts, at the Arts and Design Postgraduate FAD-UNAM in Mexico City. In 2016 she made a Research Mobility Programme focused in contemporay printmaking at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. She has shown her work individually in different exhibition spaces, highlighting the Bernardo Quintana Arrioja Art Center of the Autonomous University of Querétaro (2022) and the Museum of the City of Cuernavaca (2018) stand out, where Fernando Gálvez de Aguinaga was in charge of the curatorship. She has been selected in various national and international biennials and exhibitions such as the Alfredo Zalce National Painting and Engraving Biennial, the Print Triennial of the Brest Regional Museum in Belarus, and the Mini Print Biennial in Guangzhou, China, among others. She has participated in more than 80 collective exhibitions in various countries such as Italy, Spain, Canada and Germany, among others in addition to Mexico, such as the Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center in the United States, the Toluca Print Museum and the Gallery Microscope from the University of Quebec. She has participated in collective exhibitions alongside artists such as Mariana Gullco, Ana Gómez, Carlos Alvarado Lang, Demián Flores, and Salvador Jaramillo. In 2017, she collaborated in the 4th publication of the Artediseño Magazine of the UNAM, publishing the article Contemporary Printmaking in the European Art Market, the result of the artistic residency she carried out at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. In 2018 she was selected to exhibit at the Dubai Art Week, at Alserkal Avenue in the United Arab Emirates. Her work is part of museums and private and public collections in Mexico and other countries, such as the collection of the Brest Museum in Belarus and the collection of the Guangzhou Museum of Art in China, the Casa Morelos Museum in Cuautla and the Figueroa y Hernández Difusión Cultural A.C. collection. She has been awarded to carry out art production residencies at La Máquina Lithography Workshop in Oaxaca (2019), the Basic and Advanced Print Workshop Camaxtli (TEBAC) in Tlaxcala (2015), the Workshop of Disfusión Cultural F&H, A.C. in Cancun (2017) and the Ceramic Workshop 42 in Isla Mujeres (2022). In January 2017, she was recognized as Piece of the Month by the Print Museom of Toluca. Participates as a member of the selection committee of the Visual Arts Exhibition in 2019 of the Graphic section, of the Institute of Culture and Arts of Quintana Roo. In October 2020, she obtained the grant to support creators “Cultura en un Click” from the Secretary of Culture of the State of Quintana Roo. She was a member of La Tómbola Printmaking Workshop of the Toluca Print Museum for 8 years (2008-2016), with whom she carried out various cultural management activities, workshops and exhibitions, together with other artists and collectives from Mexico, Brazil and Canada. In addition to her work as an artist, she has collaborated in cultural management activities and artistic projects with different associations and has participated in workshops and talks on the creative process and the art market at various universities and art spaces in Mexico. From 2013-2016 she was a member of the Mexican Association of Engravers of Plastic Research A.C. She currently lives and produces in the city of Cancun, Mexico.