Guillén-Beltrán, Florencia

Florencia Guillén studied Painting at the Istituto Spinelli per L ¿arte e il Restauro in Florence, Italy, and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Art History and Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College in the United Kingdom. She holds a Master's degree in Visual Arts from The Slade School of Fine Art in London, which she pursued with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has participated in exhibitions in various countries in Latin America, Asia, and Europe. In Mexico, she has exhibited at the Carrillo Gil Museum, Zapopan Art Museum, Casa del Lago, Amparo Museum, Sonora Art Museum, Tijuana State Arts Center, and Cabañas Museum, and in the United States at the National Museum of Mexican Art and Okhlahoma Contemporary. She has had solo exhibitions at the Cabañas Museum and the City Museum of Guadalajara, Anex in Poland, and Met Manila in the Philippines. She has been an artist in residence in Poland, China, Colombia, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and various spaces in Mexico. She has been supported to develop artistic projects by the UCL Duveen Travel Scholarship, Bancomer Foundation's Arte Actual, Latin American Roaming Art (LARA), Changing Places GDL, as well as CECA, PECDA Jalisco, and FONCA. In her artistic practice, she uses relational and transdisciplinary methodologies to investigate struggles for the rights of nature and their historical relationship with the feminist movement. She works in mediums such as video, sound, drawing, and textiles, with visual content ranging from documentary records to poetic images. She is part of Colectivo la Otra Calle, where she works with street dwellers through artistic collaborations to reflect on universal human rights, and she was part of Colectivo Hilos, a feminist collective focused on raising awareness about the disappearances of women and men in Mexico in recent years. Since 2010, she has been a teacher in various creative careers at the Tecnológico de Monterrey and ITESO, in addition to conducting numerous workshops in museum spaces. From 2018 to 2022, she coordinated the Visual Arts program at the School of Architecture, and she currently works as a teacher and Regional Leader in Arts and Cultures at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, while continuing her artistic practice as academic research-creation. She is currently part of the National Creators System of FONCA.