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Iliana Olalde is a  Mexican interdisciplinary artist, art educator, and feminist. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of art, pedagogy, participatory processes, and site-responsive approaches, engaging with the body, gender, memory, landscape, and collectivity. Working across education, artistic research, participatory art, installation, performance, and video, she explores how bodies, communities, and territories intersect.

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Through collaborative laboratories, image-making, and public-space activations, her work articulates practices of care, critical thinking, and radical imagination. A key dimension of her practice engages with performativity, understood as the capacity to act, name, and transform through words, sounds, texts, gestures, and embodied actions. Her practice has also been informed by her research with Sociedad del Paisaje on landscape and more-than-human relationships, opening symbolic and political connections between gender and nature.

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She holds a background in Art and Gender (UNAM), Communication (UNAM), and Contemporary Dance (INBAL), and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Arts Pedagogy (UV), focusing on participatory art processes and feminist pedagogies in museums and cultural institutions. Her work has been presented in Mexico, the United States, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Thailand, and Guatemala, in venues such as Judson Memorial Church, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, La Revuelta, The Women’s Building, the International AWID Forum, and the IMPACT transdisciplinary symposium, among others.

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She is a member of ICOM Mexico and the Committee for Education and Cultural Action (CECA).

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