Guillén-Beltrán, Florencia

Florencia Guillén studied Drawing and Painting at the Institute of Art and Restoration Palazzo Spinelli in Florence, Italy. She graduated with a Bachelor¿s Degree in Visual Arts and Art History from Goldsmiths College and holds a Master¿s Degree in Visual Arts in New Media from The Slade School of Fine Art, which she pursued with a scholarship from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has participated in exhibitions in several countries across 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 Center for the Arts, and the Cabañas Museum, among others. She has had solo exhibitions at the Cabañas Museum and the Guadalajara City Museum, Anex in Poland, and Met Manila in the Philippines. She has been an artist in residence in Poland, China, Colombia, the UK, the Philippines, and various spaces in Mexico. She has received support to develop artistic projects from 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 nature rights and their historical relationship with the feminist movement. She works in mediums such as video, sound, drawing, and textile with visual content that oscillates between documentary recording and poetic imagery. She has been part of the Colectivo la Otra Calle, where she worked with street inhabitants through artistic collaborations to reflect on universal rights to the city, health, and culture. She was also part of the Colectiva Hilos, focused on raising awareness of the disappearances of women and men in recent years in Mexico. Since 2010, she has been a professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey and ITESO, along with teaching numerous workshops in museums, community centers, and public spaces. From 2018 to 2022, she coordinated the Bachelor¿s Degree in Visual Arts at the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura. She is currently a professor in the Digital Arts and Animation Bachelor¿s Degree at Tecnológico de Monterrey and coordinates the EAAD Arts Project at Campus Guadalajara. She was part of the FONCA National System of Creators from 2021 to 2023 and is currently part from 2025 to 2028.