Jimena Schlaepfer (Mexico)
Jimena Schlaepfer, Mexico City, 1982. Lives and works in Mexico City.
She estudied visual arts in the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda".
Her work has been developed in the field of painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture and installation.
She has held solo exhibitions in Mexico, including: Transitar el desierto at the Centro de Exploración Pensamiento crítico Ibero (2026), Cosmogonía Trilobite at the Santo Domingo Cultural Center, Oaxaca (2016); Ossis Lux at the Museum of Oaxacan painters MUPO (2016); among other.
Among her group exhibitions are included: Agua que quema, Museo Anahuacalli, Ciudad de México (2023), Sucesiones, MUPO, Oaxaca (2022); In Praise of Magic, Local Project, New York (2021); Versus 5, Arroniz Gallery, Mexico City (2021); Inverso Centro, NN Gallery, Oaxaca (2020); Esculturas de la tierra, Cultural Complex in Los Pinos, Mexico City (2019); Delirios Urbanos, Cuarto de maquinas Gallery, Mexico City (2017).
She has been selected to be part of the national system of creators 2024 SNCA, and was also a FONCA scholarship recipient for Young Creators in the period 2006-2007 and in the period 2011-2012 in Alternative Media. She took part of Art OMI residency (NY, US) in 2022; Vermont Studio Center residency (Vermont, US) in 2022; Art Project residency (Playa del Carmen, MX) in 2021; Dedazo residency (Chiapas, MX) in 2019; Banff Centre residency (Banff, Canada) in 2014.
Her work belongs to the following collections in the United States: Art OMI Collection and Francis J. Greenburger Collection.
