Mariana Noreña G

From Bogotá Colombia
Based in Chicago, Il. USA

Mariana Noreña is a multidisciplinary artist from Bogotá, Colombia, currently living in Chicago, IL, whose work explores places, landscapes, and natural phenomena through earth matter and materials that speak of past, present, and intimate stories. Her sculpture-based installations expose these stories by creating an echo of time, observation, and research.

Mariana holds dual bachelor's degrees in Design and Fine Arts with an emphasis in Painting and Drawing from La Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), for which she received a merit distinction on her thesis project “You Were Here” which explored the landscape of the body through alternative portraiture. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in the Fiber and Material Studies from the School of Art Institute of Chicago.

Mariana latest solo exhibition was in Murmuration “Territorio Ceniza” in Chicago, She as also exhibited in Garage 04 “Instructions for a walk” in Karlsruhe, Germany and at Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México in Chicago “Reflections of Place.”

Mariana has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Colombia at venues such as La Feria del Millón Art Fair, Contemporary Museum of Art of Bogota, and SGR Gallery. In the United States, her work has also been shown at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University (New York City), Krasl Art Center (St Joseph, Michigan), Gallery 1922, SAIC Galleries, RHAA, The Franklin, and Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago). Her work is in the collection of the Museo Bolivariano of Contemporary Art. She was a 2023 Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center and a 2022 Luminarts Cultural Foundation finalist.