MANUELA GARCÍA

Mexico, 1982

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Manuela García was born in 1982 in Mexico City, where she currently lives, but grew up in Medellin, Colombia. She holds a BA in Fine Arts by the National University of Colombia. She was part of the MA program in Visual Arts at the Brera Academy in Milan. She worked during one year into the Textil art atelier from the School of Arts and Crafts in Granada, Spain. She accomplished the SOMA arts educational program in México City (2016)

Among she recent exhibitions are Welcome to the Fear City, a collective show from Bodega Acme (2020), You from Me-Me from you in the City Museum of Mexico (2019) and her most recent solo exhibition at Plomo Art Gallery in Mexico City (2019). 

Some of her upcoming shows as Orientations for a feminist city at Aronson Gallery New York (2020) and Super Súper Super at Fofa Gallery in Montreal (2021) She has also been commissioned a piece for Fringe Projects public in Miami. 

Some of her previous exhibitions include Inextinguishable Fire at Temporary Gallery, Cologne curated By Regina Barunke and Sonja Hempel, 2015, Transcripciones Chopo Museum curated by Esteban King, (2015) and various exhibitions in independent spaces such as Taller Siete in Medellín, Colombia, Cooperativa Cráter Invertido, Estudio Marte and Guadalajara 90210 in Mexico City. 

She has been part of projects as Kiosko by Alumnos47 Fundation curated by Eva Pozas and collective initiatives such as The big question: Social Cartography at San Joaquin Neighborhood and NN project during the MDE15 at Antioquia Museum, Medellín    

In her personal work, she consider herself as sculpture, interested in the relationship between bodies in the space, a concept related also with philosophical issues, linked to the human conditions, and how these relations involved an experience of inhabit. Materializing the work through videos installations and drawing.