María José de la Macorra
María José de la Macorra (Mexico City, 1964) earned her undergraduate degree (licenciatura) in Visual Arts from the National School of Plastic Arts, UNAM, Mexico. Among the many awards, grants and honors she has received throughout her career are: the Academic Excellence Diploma, UNAM (1994); Sculpture Acquisition Prize, Third Biennial Monterrey (1996); FONCA Young Creators Grant (1997); Honorable Mention in Sculpture, Omnilife Grand Prize, Guadalajara (1999); Artistic Residency Program, Mexico-Canada, Banff Centre for the Arts-FONCA (2000 and 2007 and 2019); BBVA-Bancomer Foundation support for the project Cambio de estado: proyecto para plazas públicas (2003, Change of State: Project for Public Squares); grant awarded by the Pollock Krasner Foundation (2006-2007), and BBVA-Bancomer Foundation support for publication of the book De nubes y lluvia / torres de agua (2008, On Clouds and Rain / Towers of Water). While three of her most outstanding projects are Tránsitos, Museum of Monterrey (1998, Transits); De las geografías al norte interior, Galería de Arte Mexicano (2001, From Geographies to the Inner North), and De nubes y lluvia / torres de agua, Galería de Arte Mexicano (2005, On Clouds and Rain / Towers of Water), others include: Cambio de estado: proyecto para plazas públicas (1999-2003, Change of State: A Project for Public Squares), Pasaje-sitio-contacto (1998, Passage-Site-Contact), Dynamis (2001) and Las 20 perlas (2006 to the present, 20 Pearls). Recent exhibits in which she has participated: Hecho en casa: una aproximación a las prácticas objetuales (Home Made: An Approach to Object Practices), Museo de Arte Moderno (2009); Dos perlas, Galería Nina Menocal (2010, Two Pearls); Destello, Jumex Collection/Foundation (2011, Sparkle); Panorámica. Paisaje 2013-1969, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (2013, Panorama. Landscape 2013-1969); Ilusión óptica, Museo de Arte Moderno (2014, Optical Illusion), and Herbarium, Galería Ethra (2018), among others. De la Macorra has had individual exhibitions in such countries as Mexico, the United States, Canada, Japan, China, New Zealand and Australia. A member of the National Creators of Art System in 2007, 2011 and 2015, she was also a Young Creators Program tutor in the discipline of Sculpture (2009-2011). The artist lives and works in Mexico City.
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