Aurora Noreña (b. 1962, Mexico City).
She studied Architecture at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) and the MD in Visual Arts at the National School of Plastic Arts of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), both in Mexico City.
She has curated several exhibitions and taught workshops, conferences and courses in Mexico and abroad, besides giving sculpture classes and research degree seminars, at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, La Esmeralda, of the National Institute of Fine Arts (2001-2008), and on Contemporary Art History at Sor Juana University (1996-1998), Autonomous Metropolitan University (1994-1996) and Jumex Foundation (2003).
She has more than a dozen solo exhibitions around the country. She is currently presenting Tanta piedrita me asfixia, on view from November 2025 through April 2026 in Terreno Baldío Gallery, Mexico City.
She has an endless number of collective exhibitions inside and outside the country, among which stand out: Derivas de la forma escultórica. Modern Museum of Art. MAM, México City 2025-2026; Parcelas floridas. Casa Wabi Foundation, Mexico City 2024-2025; Where you left off, Tiger Strikes Asteroid PHL, Philadelphia, USA, 2023; Linear. Langkong Art Museum, Bejing, China, 2021; El animal herido. Museo Experimental el Eco, México City, 2019-2020; Mexico City: eight centuries journey, 2017-2018; 20 years of the National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA), Vasconcelos Library, 2009; Women: without account. Mexican Cultural Institute, San Antonio, Texas, 2008, Sculptural Brotherhoods Mexico - Germany. Macay Foundation, Mérida, Yucatan, 2008; Biennial of Art of Fukushima, Japan, 2007; IV International Biennial of Standards, Tijuana, Baja California Norte, 2006 and Art-metropolis, 34th Cervantino International Festival, Guanajuato, 2006.
Throughout her career she has been recognized with several awards, such as: Acquisition Prize of the XI National Young Art Encounter, 1991; Young Creative Scholarship in Sculpture. FONCA. 1996-1997; ART / OMI Arts Residence, Ghent, New York, USA, 1998; Fellowship for Cultural Projects and Co-investments, FONCA, for the project Invisible currents, 1999; Honorary mention in sculpture in the October Art Show, Omnilife Grand Prix, Guadalajara 2001, Selection among the best art-books of 2015 for her book: Ondulations under the bridge. Horizon Zapping. Sergio González Rodríguez, FCE (Economic Culture Fond). Coca Price 2018, Associazione Culturale COCA, Rome, Italy, Messen Art Residency, Ålvik, Norway. 2023, and she has been a beneficiary of the Support System for Cultural Creation and Projects. (SACPC) (2016-2019, 2021-2024).
Among her highlight public works projects are: Invisible currents. Metro Copilco, Mexico City, 1999; Pulsations. Institute of Biomedical Research, University City, Mexico City, 2008; and Sky landscapes. Institute of Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, 2010.
In 2010 she began to develop a vast production with the horizon as a thematic axis; however, throughout time, what was first a theme becomes a creative strategy that allows her to explore other issues such as: memory, new notions of landscape and the expatriation of cultural heritage.
In 2021, she opened Limbo, a virtual library specialized in cultural property trafficking and co-founded the Departments of Resilient Objects, a nomadic device in charge of symbolically restoring plundered archaeological property.