Visual artist. Lives and works in Mexico City.
She is a professor candidate in Visual Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. In her artistic theoretical research projects she develops narratives of recent events.
Selection in the 14th edition of the Future and Contemporary Havana Biennial 2021/2022, in the international artistic residency program, Casa Wabi curated by Paola Jasso 2020, selected in the artistic residency program, La chambre blanche, Québec city Canada , collaboration FONCA CALQ 2019. Selection in the second edition of Zona_Seis, residencies for young artists at the Luis Adelantado Gallery 2015, Scholarship holder of the BBVA Bancomer-MACG program fifth edition 2016, she was the first place winner in the Lumen Art Parameter 2nd edition 2016. Scholarship holder of the 3rd edition of the Adidas Border scholarship. In 2009, she was a scholarship holder of the FONCA Young Creators program. She has obtained recognitions such as the selection in the Rufino Tamayo Biennial editions XVIII, XVI and the Honorable Mention in the 8th Alfredo Zalce National Painting Biennial.
She has had five individual exhibitions: 2021 Cielo abierto Curated by Paola Jasso, Archivo Colectivo Gallery, Mexico City. 2019 Hyperobjects La chambre blanche, Québec city Canada, 2016 Happy markets Luis Adelantado Gallery Mexico. 2012 Diagram of the interference National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda. 2012 Simultaneous visualization José María Velasco Gallery, Mexico City.
She has participated in more than 80 collective exhibitions, among which stand out: The retinal umbilical cord, phase III Pictorial Ontologies, ESPAC, Mexico City 2018, Reactive Painting Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City 2017, Fables without a moral. The overflow of corruption in Mexico. Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola UNAM, Mexico City 2017, Notes for a sentimental (economic-) education, (Museo Universitario del Chopo-UNAM, Mexico City 2017, The future is not written, Palazzo Cinni, official programming of the 56 International Art Exhibition of Venice, 2015, ZI know your father doesn't understand my model language MUAC-UNAM, 2014.
Exclusively represented by SAENGER GALERÍA in Mexico City.
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En octubre brota el amarillo
Curated by Eduardo Luque & Christian Barragán February 1 - April 12, 2025As part of Mexico City's Art Week 2025, Saenger Gallery presents the group exhibition on landscape, En octubre brota el amarillo [In October, Yellow Blossoms], the first contemporary art project hosted by Casa Limantour, curated by Eduardo Luque with assistance from Christian Barragán. With this new exhibition, Saenger Gallery reaffirms its program of showcasing works in architecturally significant spaces of historical and cultural relevance. This time, twenty artists from Mexico, North America, Spain, Germany, and Japan have been gathered to create a temporal arc of over thirty years of artistic production, allowing for an exploration of the multiple singularities in approaches, processes, materialities, and questions employed by the invited artists, all centered around a classic theme in art history: landscape.Read more -
Under Forty
December 5, 2024 - January 25, 2025Under Forty, presented by Saenger Gallery at Casa Siza, marks the culmination of a curatorial program that has been running since August 2024. This group show brings together over 50 works by 25 artists from diverse parts of the world, all born between 1982 and 1995. It offers a renewed perspective on the transformations in contemporary international art, showcasing the cultural and conceptual diversity of its participants.Read more -
Tequila Sunrise by Cecilia Barreto
at Colección Zarur, curated by Juvenal Urzúa September 26 - December 15, 2024For this exhibition, Cecilia Barreto researched the tequila industry, from the perspective of Jalisco in particular.Read more -
Sentir desierto by Cecilia Barreto
Curated by Christian Gómez at Main Room July 13 - September 16, 2023This exhibition presents the most recent body of work by the artist Cecilia Barreto (Mexico City, 1985), in which she elaborates on the experience of her trip to the state of Sonora, in northern Mexico, where the largest extraction areas of lithium in the country are located.Read more -
Cielo abierto by Cecilia Barreto
Curated by Paola J. Jasso May 13 - July 17, 2021For this exhibition Cecilia Barreto shows part of her latest body of work that derives from the constant search on the representation of power, economic exchanges and analysis of financial data.Read more
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NADA NY 2025
May 7 - 11, 2025SAENGER Gallery is pleased to present, for the upcoming edition of NADA New York, a group exhibition featuring Robert Janitz, Yoab Vera, and Cecilia Barreto—three artists who explore the theme of landscape through painting, offering deeply internalized visions shaped by memory, emotion, and a politically grounded perspective.Read more -
Material Art Fair 2024
February 8 - 11, 2024SAENGER Galería is pleased to present for Material Art Fair's 10th edition, a group show by both local and International multidisciplinary artists, focusing on installation,...Read more -
Material Art Fair 2023
February 9 - 12, 2023In this edition of Material Art Fair, SAENGER Galeria is pleased to present the work of Cecilia Barreto, Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes, Benjamín Torres, Iván Trueta...Read more