Aurora Noreña (Mexico City).
She studied Architecture at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) and holds an MA in Visual Arts from the National School of Plastic Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), both in Mexico City.
She has curated exhibitions and taught workshops, lectures, and courses in Mexico and abroad. She has also taught sculpture and research seminars at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, La Esmeralda, of the National Institute of Fine Arts (2001–2008), as well as Contemporary Art History at Sor Juana University (1996–1998), the Autonomous Metropolitan University (1994–1996), and the Jumex Foundation (2003).
She has held more than a dozen solo exhibitions throughout Mexico. Her most recent exhibitions include Tierra pisada: manual para cultivar ruinas, on view at MACCO, Oaxaca, from July to October 2026; Tanta piedrita me asfixia (2025–2026) at Terreno Baldío Gallery, Mexico City; and Parcelas Floridas, presented at Fundación Casa Wabi (2024–2025), also in Mexico City.
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Mexico and internationally, among which stand out: Derivas de la forma escultórica, Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM), Mexico City, 2025–2026; Parcelas Floridas, Fundación Casa Wabi, Mexico City, 2024–2025; Where You Left Off, Tiger Strikes Asteroid PHL, Philadelphia, USA, 2023; Linear, Langkong Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2021; El animal herido, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, 2019–2020; Mexico City: An Eight-Century Journey, 2017–2018; 20 Years of FONCA, Vasconcelos Library, 2009; Women: Without Count, Mexican Cultural Institute, San Antonio, Texas, 2008; Sculptural Brotherhoods Mexico–Germany, Macay Foundation, Mérida, Yucatán, 2008; Fukushima Art Biennial, Japan, 2007; IV International Biennial of Estandartes, Tijuana, Baja California, 2006; and Arte-Urbe, 34th Cervantino International Festival, Guanajuato, 2006.
Throughout her career, she has received several awards, including: the Acquisition Prize at the XI National Young Art Encounter (1991); Young Creators Fellowship in Sculpture, FONCA (1996–1997); ART/OMI Residency, Ghent, New York, USA (1998); FONCA Fellowship for Cultural Projects and Co-investment for the project Invisible Currents (1999); Honorary Mention in Sculpture at the October Salon, Omnilife Grand Prize, Guadalajara (2001); selection among the best art books of 2015 for her book Ondulations under the Bridge. Horizon Zapping (FCE); COCA Project Prize, Associazione Culturale COCA, Rome, Italy (2018); and the KH Messen Residency, Ålvik, Norway (2023). She has also been a member of the National System of Art Creators (2016–2019, 2021–2024).
Among her public art projects are: Invisible Currents, Metro Copilco, Mexico City (1999); Pulsations, Institute of Biomedical Research, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City (2008); Observatory, Paseo Montejo, Mérida, Yucatán (2008); and Firmaments, Institute of Engineering, UNAM, Mexico City (2010).
In 2010, she began developing a body of work centered on the “horizon,” which over time evolved from a thematic axis into a creative strategy. Through it, she has expanded the scope of her practice and engaged with issues such as memory, new notions of landscape, and the expatriation of cultural heritage.
In 2021, she launched Limbo, a virtual repository specializing in the trafficking of cultural property, and co-founded the Department of Resilient Objects, a nomadic initiative dedicated to the symbolic restitution of looted archaeological