Marisa Boullosa

Marisa Boullosa (born 11 March 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican artist. She lives and works in San Miguel De Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the National Gallery of Australia and the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Uruguay.

Education Marisa Boullosa went to school for restoration, conservation, and museography. In 1979 she went back to school at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) where she studied engraving and painting. She continued her education again in Barcelona, Spain, at the Massana School of Art and Design where she focused on painting and printmaking. in Xalapa, Mexico.

Art career Boullosa's first solo exhibition was in Mexico City at the Rafael Matos Gallery, which was titled Enredos in 1987. In 2003 she had an exhibition at Taller Galleria Fort in Girona, Spain for the 23rd Mini Print International of Cadaques. The artist describes her work as nostalgic and is made with photography, documents, clothing, found objects, accumulated objects, maps, and treasured items, to give a worn-out memory feeling and evoke fragile and intimate aspects of the human existence. She also creates prints and engravings on textiles, metal, wooden objects, amate paper, Mexican cotton, and Indian Fabrics, as well as etchings and linocut.

Boullosa was an artist in residence at the Pratt Institute in 2003, where she created works on the Latino immigration experience and the international labor community with ceramic figures and prints.

Boullosa's prints have been exhibited in New York City at the International Print Center as well as in Sweden at Kunstmusem Bern for the Estampas, Independencia y Revolucion exhibition in 2010. She also had work shown in Arizona for the Border Project which presented many artworks at the statehood Centennial Celebration in 2012 at the University of Arizona.

Boullosa took part in the "You are your house, I am mine" installation at the Museo de Ciudad in 2014, which focused on family structures, in which Boullosa created prints.

In 2017, Boullosa was an artist in residence at the ChacalArt Residency for printmaking and held printmaking workshops for the local school children in that area.

Boullosa has done activism art, to draw attention to violence against women and victims of femicide, in her work "Flores vivas y flores muertas" (living flowers and dead flowers), which was exhibited in Tlaxcala, Mexico. As well as her exhibition in 2018, "Nothing-Nobody" in which she addresses the kidnapping and violence against women in Veracruz, Mexico. She also has given work to benefit the conversation project in El Charco, Mexico.

She has exhibitions in Spain, Mexico, and the United States most often.

Artworks As part of the grantee permanent image collection with Pollock-Krasner Foundation the following works are available to view.

Family Photo Album, print on wood , made in 2010. This piece is colored family photos on square pieces of wood tied together with red string. White Dresses, prints Japanese paper using solar plates, , made in 2010. This is an installation of dresses, and it is a photograph of the images on a clothesline hung by clothes pins, on the top of a building on a bright day.

Fragile or me rompo, La Casita, Polanco, Mexico, 1994 Memories, San Luis Potosí Arts Center, Mexico, 2010 Monotipia, La Fabrica la Aurora, San Miguel de Allende, July 2019 Historias de lo kotidiano, Casa del Caballero Aguila Museum with Patricia Mosqueira, March 2020

Collections

Centro Cultural Ignacio Tamires in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Irish Museum of Modern Art, in Dublin, Ireland Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, in Quebec Canada Museo Taller Erasto Cortes ( MUTEC) in Puebla, Mexico National Gallery of Australia in Parkes ACT, Australia

Awards

1st Prize VI and XI National Engraving Prize José Guadalupe Posada, Aguascalientes, Mexico in 1998. 1st Prize VI and XI National Engraving Prize José Guadalupe Posada, Aguascalientes, Mexico in 2001 Selection Award, Space International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea in 2002 Vive Rivera Nayarit. ( 2019, May 23). ChacalArt Residencia de Invierno Winter Residency 2017