Maribel Portela
Born in 1960 in Mexico where I live and work. Studied at the National School of Arts, UNAM.
More than 44 solo exhibitions, including:
Orgánico Artificial, Museo Universitario del Chopo, White Origin, Drexel Gallery, Monterrey, NL; Cumulus, Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City; The Will of Form, Centro México, Madrid; Dialogues of Space Expanding between Mexico City and Beijing, TJ China Project, Tijuana; and more than a hundred collective exhibitions in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the United States, such as:
Juan O´Gorman y su Casa Cueva, National Museum of Architecture, Bellas Artes Palace, Mexico City; 8th International Fiber Art Biennale from Lausanne to Beijing, Nantong, China; Women’s Views, Art Cuestion gallery, Ourense, Spain; Les jardins du Précambrie, Symposium International d’Art in situ, Fondation Derouin Val-David, Canada; Dialectic of the Urban Landscape, Diego Rivera Mural Museum, Mexico City; Zona Maco, Drexel Gallery, Centro Banamex, Mexico City; Encounter of Art and Sciences, Institute of Engineering, UNAM, Mexico City; Immortality: A Day of the Dead Celebration, Main Gallery, The Art Center, Chicago. International Symposium Changchun, China, Teritorios de la Memoria, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City.
Distinctions: young creator’s grant recipient, FONCA, 1994; member of the National System of Creators since 2001; Fonca-Conacyt Artistic Residency at the Fine Arts Academy of Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2011; guest instructor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2012. Bronze Award 11th from Lausanne to Beijing Fiber art Biennale 2020.
Collections: Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Museo del Arzobispado, and Banco Nacional de México, Mexico City; Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin; Museo del Palacio de Gobierno, Monterrey, NL; Sculpture Garden and Bicentennial Garden, Jalapa, Veracruz; Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Museum of International Ceramic Arts, Denmark; Museum of the City of Mérida, Yucatán; San Luis Potosi Center for the Arts; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; Medalta, Historic Clay District, Medicine Hat, Canada.