bio

Iliana Olalde is a Mexican artist, cultural mediator and feminist. Her practice investigates and addresses questions about body, gender, representation, collectivity, emancipation, and radical pedagogies. Her work is linked to the multi and interdisciplinary, informed by gender studies and feminist art history, working with participatory art, art-education, live arts, performance, video, installation, essay and research. The body, both as a notion and as a materiality, is a critical starting point for her experimentation and reflection. She summons and provokes spaces and actions that celebrate and push for feminist futures, moving out of the hegemonic narratives of inequity, erasure, and disappearance, to enunciate radical futures within art and the social.

 

She holds an International Diploma in Art and Gender by UNAM and graduated in Contemporary Dance from the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature, as well as, in Communication Sciences and Journalism from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences UNAM.

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Her individual and collective work has been shown in Mexico, the United States, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Germany, Iceland and the United Kingdom, in venues such as the Judson Memorial Church in NYC and the Zapopan Art Museum in Mexico. She has been awarded with honor mention by Amalia Solórzano Bravo Award 2024, Interdisciplinary Creation Award 2018 and the Original Movement Award 2017, and her work has been supported by Secretaría Federal de Cultura, Piso 16. Laboratory of Cultural Initiatives UNAM, and Prince Claus Fund (international mobility), among many others.
 
She is co-founder and member of Sociedad del Paisaje (2019-current) along with the Mexican artists Fermín Martínez and Sendic Vázquez, a project of research, experimentation and artistic production that crosses multidisciplinary practices within the relationship body-landscape-listening.

 

​She has collaborated with several artists and projects, such as MOC, which she co-directed until 2016 along Patrick Trigoso and received the Contemporary Scenic Creation Award as a performer of Tesitura de la Carne. Besides, she has worked with artists such as Benoît Lachambre and Sophie Corriveau in the durational performance / live installation Fluid Grounds (Museo Universitario del Chopo, 2019), and recently with CuatroXCuatro in LEIB ¿Qué reiste un cuerpo?.
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Currently, she carries out Poner el cuerpo o el futuro ya es feminista, a long-term project that brings together participatory practices, live arts, visual arts and community.

 

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