Bio

JULIETA BARRIOS (Toluca, Mexico, 1985). She completed her Master's studies in Visual Arts, specializing in Printmaking, at the Postgraduate Program in Arts and Design at UNAM in Mexico City. In 2016, she obtained a grant from the UNAM Mobility Program to carry out a research stay focused on contemporary printmaking art at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. She has shown her work individually in various exhibition spaces in Mexico, including the Bernardo Quintana Arrioja Art Center at the Autonomous University of Querétaro (2022) and the Museum of the City of Cuernavaca (2018), where she was curated by Fernando Gálvez de Aguinaga. Since 2008, she has been selected 30 times for various national and international biennials and exhibitions, including the Alfredo Zalce National Painting and Engraving Biennial, the Brest Regional Museum's Print Triennial in Belarus, the Mini Print Biennial in Guangzhou, China, and the Bodio Lomnago International Ex Libris Competition in Italy, among others. She has participated in more than 90 group exhibitions at various venues, including the Oklahoma Center for Contemporary Art in the United States, the Museum of Modern Art of the State of Mexico, the Microscope Gallery at the University of Quebec, and other countries, including Austria, Italy, Spain, Russia, Canada, and Argentina. In 2017, she collaborated on the fourth issue of UNAM's Artediseño Magazine with the article "Contemporary Graphics in the European Art Market," resulting from her artist residency at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. She has been awarded to participate in production residencies at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna (2024), NALU Ceramics Workshop in Isla Mujeres (2022), La Máquina in Oaxaca (2019), Difusión Cultural F&H, A.C. in Cancún (2017), and the Taller de Estampa Básica y Avanzada Camaxtli (TEBAC) in Tlaxcala (2015). Her work is featured in museums and public and private collections in Mexico and other countries, such as the Sremski Kalovci Cultural Center in Serbia, the STUNAM collection, the Brest Museum collection in Belarus, the Guangzhou Museum of Art collection in China, and the Difusión Cultural Figueroa y Hernández A.C. In January 2017, she was awarded Piece of the Month by the Museo de la Estampa in Toluca. She participated as a member of the selection committee for the 2019 Visual Arts Exhibition of the Graphic Arts section of the Quintana Roo Institute of Culture and the Arts.

In July 2024, she won the Artist-in-Residence Program: Art & Ecology at the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Austria. In August 2023, she received the Prize for Incentives for Artistic Creation and Production: Visual Arts, Printmaking category, from the Institute for Culture and the Arts, Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo. In October 2020, she received the Cultura en un Click grant from the Ministry of Culture of the State of Quintana Roo. She has given various lectures on creative processes and the art market for students of arts and cultural business at universities such as Anáhuac, UAEMEX, and UNAM. She has taught workshops on printmaking, ceramics, and artist coaching at various public and private institutions and spaces in Mexico. She was a member of the Printmaking Integration and Experimentation Workshop La Tómbola at the Museo de la Estampa in Toluca for eight years (2008–2016), with whom she carried out various cultural management activities, workshops, and exhibitions, alongside other artists and collectives from Mexico, Brazil, and Canada. From 2013–2016, she was a member of the Mexican Association of Plastic Research Engravers A.C.

Her work has focused on documenting natural species and the different interactions between humans and their natural environment, utilizing the concept of the imprint, translated into works that combine printmaking, painting, ceramics, and textiles. She currently resides and produces in Cancún, Mexico.