Jerez de la Frontera, 1986.

Visual artist with a degree in Fine Arts from the UEM, she developed part of her training and artistic practice at the National College of Arts & Design (Dublin), AID (Berlin) and Master of Research in Art and Creation at the UCM (Madrid). After several years in Berlin, she currently lives and works in Madrid.

Her solo shows were exhibited at Centro Párraga (Murcia, 2021), Teatro La Capilla with Víctor Colmenero (CDMX, Mx, 2021), Museo de Jaén (2021), Blueproject Foundation (Barcelona, 2020), Museo de Cádiz (2020), MACZUL (Maracaibo, VZ, 2017) and she participated in group shows at Kindred Spirit (Lisbon, PT 2023) or at Centre d’art contemporain Chapelle Saint-Jacques (Saint-Gaudens, FR 2023). Centro Párraga (Murcia, 2023 and 2020), Casa de Iberoamérica (Cádiz, 2022-23), Palacio Provincial de Cádiz (2022), Fundación Rafael Botí (Córdoba, 2022 and 2021), Museu Fundació Juan March (Palmas, Balearic Islands, 2022), Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, 2021), Palacio Almirante (Granada, 2021), Impronta (Guadalajara, MX, 2021), ProyectoH (CDMX, Mx, 2021), Inéditos y Premio Generación2020 at La Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2020), SCAN Projects (London, UK, 2020)

CentroCentro (Madrid, 2020 y 2016), C3A (Córdoba, 2019), CArteC (Madrid, 2019), Premi Ciutat de Palma (Baleares, 2019), Santa Inés (Sevilla, 2018), Fundación Mendoza (Caracas, VZ, 2017), Ranchito ARCOLisboa, Matadero Madrid / Galerias  Municipais  (Madrid/Lisboa,  2018),  Artothèque
(Burdeos-Pessac, Francia, 2018), TEA (Tenerife, 2018), Centro Cultural de España/AECID (Rosario, Argentina/ Concepción, Chile/Lima,  Perú,  2018),
XXVII  Circuitos  de  Artes  Plásticas  (Madrid,  2017)
 y  LABoral  (Gijón,  2017),
Fundación Cajasol (Sevilla, 2017), CAAC (Sevilla, 2016).

Recent awards and grants include the XVI illySustainArt Award in the edition of ARCOmadrid 2023, International Award Obra Abierta 2022, Ayudas a la Creación en Artes Visuales Comunidad de Madrid 2022, ARCO Foundation Award 2022, ARCO Community of Madrid Award 2022, Incorporation to the HAMACA2022 Archive, Caja Extremadura Foundation Award 2022, Generation 2020 of the Montemadrid Foundation, Blueproject Foundation, VEGAP XXIII or Comunidad de Madrid-Estampa2019.

Highlights include residencies at Artworks (Porto, Portugal) thanks to an artistic production grant in collaboration with Matadero Madrid; Pico do Refúgio (San Miguel Island, Azores, PT), Festival Volcánica (Guadalajara, MX), Blueproject Foundation (Barcelona), Hangar Lisboa (Lisboa, PT), C3A (Córdoba), Tabakalera (San Sebastián), Ateliers dos Coruchéus (Lisboa, PT) and Correspondencias de Ultramar#4 with stays at Fundación Mendoza (Caracas, VZ) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia MACZUL (Maracaibo, VZ).

Her work can be found in collections such as Fundación Arco, Fundación Caja Extremadura, CA2M, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Fundación Montemadrid, DKV or Colección Jorge M. Pérez Miami.

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