BIO
JULIETA BARRIOS (Toluca, Mexico, 1985).
She completed her Master's studies in Visual Arts from the Postgraduate Program in Arts and Design at UNAM in Mexico City. In 2016, she received a grant from UNAM's Mobility Program to carry out a research focused on contemporary printmaking at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Her production has focused on recording natural species and the different interactions between humans and their natural environment, through the concept of the footprint, which she translates into pieces that combine printmaking, painting, ceramics and textiles.
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She has exhibited individually in various spaces in Mexico, including the Bernardo Quintana Arrioja Art Center of the Autonomous University of Queretaro and the Museum of the City of Cuernavaca. From 2008 to date, she has been selected on more than 20 occasions in various national and international biennials and exhibitions such as the Alfredo Zalce National Biennial of Painting and Engraving, the Print Triennial of the Regional Museum of Brest in Belarus and the Bodio Lomnago International Ex libris Competition in Italy, among others. She has participated in more than 90 group exhibitions in various places such as the Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center in the United States, the Museum of Modern Art of the State of Mexico, the Microscope Gallery of the University of Quebec and other countries, including Austria, Italy, Spain, Russia, Canada and Argentina. She has been awarded to carry out art production residencies at MuseumsQuartier, Art&Ecology AIR, Vienna, NALU Ceramics Workshop in Isla Mujeres, Difusion Cultural F&H, A.C. in Cancun, La Maquina in Oaxaca, and the Camaxtli Basic and Advanced Printmaking Workshop (TEBAC) in Tlaxcala. Her work forms part of museums and public and private collections in Mexico and other countries, such as the collection of the Brest Museum in Belarus and the collection of the Guangzhou Art Museum in China. In addition to her work as an artist, she has collaborated on cultural management activities and artistic projects with various associations, and has participated in workshops and talks on the creative process and the art market at various universities and artistic venues in Mexico. She was a member of La Tombola Experimental Printmaking Workshop at the Toluca Print Museum for eight years (2008–2016), where she carried out various cultural management activities, workshops, and exhibitions alongside other artists and collectives from Mexico, Brazil, and Canada. From 2013 to 2016, she was a member of the Mexican Association of Printmakers for Plastic Research A.C. She currently lives and works in Cancun, Mexico.