Berenice Olmedo

Berenice Olmedo (born 1987) is a Mexican sculptor and performance artist. Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, and is now based in Mexico City. Her work addresses the body, illness and care, as well as the biopolitics of disability and prosthetic devices.

Olmedo's sculptures are constructed from materials and devices from the medical field, including scoliosis corsets and prosthetic appendages. Olmedo displayed sculptures made from secondhand orthotic devices in her first solo exhibition which took place in 2018 in Cologne. Writing in Flash Art magazine, Jane Ursula Harris reflects on Olmeda's work as a disruption of "ableist standards of normativity" that allows viewers to "recognize the wellness of diverse bodies."

In her 2012–2015 project Canine Tomatocommerce or The Political-Ethical Dilemma of Merchandise, Olmeda gathered the carcasses of stray dogs killed by vehicles on the streets near Puebla. Her work was acquired for the Boros Collection in Berlin in 2022.

Olmedo has exhibited her work in the 36th São Paulo Art Biennial, the Berkeley Museum and Film Archive, Museum Trondheim, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt.