JULIETA BARRIOS

JULIETA BARRIOS (Toluca, Mexico, 1985). She completed her Master's studies in Visual Arts, specializing in Printmaking, in the Postgraduate Program of Arts and Design at FAD-UNAM. In 2016, she obtained a scholarship from the UNAM Mobility Program, to carry out a research stay focused on contemporary printmaking at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. 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. In September 2023, she was awarded the Prize for Incentives for Artistic Creation and Production from the Institute of Culture and the Arts of Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo. In 2024 she won the Art & Ecology Prize from the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna and completed an Artistic Residency during the months of July and August. 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 Austria, Italy, Spain, Germany, Canada and Argentina, in addition to Mexico. Her work has been exhibited alongside artists such as Mariana Gullco, Ana Gómez, Carlos Alvarado Lang, Demián Flores, and Salvador Jaramillo. In 2017 she collaborated in the 4th issue of the UNAM Artediseño Magazine, publishing the article Contemporary Printmaking in the European Art Market. In 2018 she was selected to exhibit at Dubai Art Week, at Alserkal Avenue in the United Arab Emirates. Her work is part of private and public collections such as the collection of the Sremski Kalovci Cultural Center in Serbia, the STUNAM collection, the collection of the Brest Museum in Belarus, the Casa Morelos Museum in Cuautla and the Figueroa y Hernández A.C. Difusión Cultural 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 NALU ceramics workshop 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 January 2017 her artwork Natura was recognized as Piece of the Month by the Print Museum of Toluca. She participates as a member of the selection committee for the 2019 Visual Arts Exhibition of the Printmaking section of the Institute of Culture and the Arts of Quintana Roo. The artist Alejandro Pérez Cruz and the art critic Fernando Gálvez have written about her work. 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.