Mexico
Lorena Mal (Mexico city, 1986) studied Fine Arts at the National School of Painting “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City and attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2016. Mal has been recipient of the Young Creators Program of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) 2011, 2016 and 2019, recipient of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship 2016, in 2013 she received the 1st prize of the International Festival of Video and Electronic Arts Transitio, and 2012 fellow of the Program for Production in Art and Media.
Recent solo exhibitions and performances include ‘Largo Aliento’, ESPAC, Mexico city; ‘Notes on material history’, Museo ExTeresa, Mexico city; ‘Concrete’, Meinblau, Berlin; ‘Breaking Point’, BB15, Linz; ‘500 years of Resonance (1500-2015)’, a concert for 60 musicians playing at 12 colonial bell towers at the Historic Center of Mexico city. She has exhibited in venues as Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Armory Center for the Arts, California; Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico city; Whyte Hotel Space, New York; The Wand Gallery, Berlin; Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai; FILE, Sao Paulo; INARSS, London; the Jumex Foundation/Collection; the Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca, and the National Stamp Museum of Mexico, among many others.
