Nuria Montiel (b. 1982, Mexico City, Mexico) is interested in art as it allows a space for dialogue and collective expression. She makes participatory art in public spaces using dialogue and self-organized actions as a possibility for social change. Montiel organizes workshops, interventions and events that involve print and popular culture, employ written language and text, printmaking, popular dance, and performance in public space to this end. During the last 4 years she develops the long-term project Imprenta Móvil, focus on the idea of a movable press activated in public space in collaboration with pedestrians, hoping that the written word can be understood as action.
Montiel's solo shows include Wxrd Wxrds (2014) at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago and ¡Sacúdete! (2013) at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros. Her work has been presented in various group exhibitions like Panamericana (2010) at Kurimazutto Gallery in Mexico City, Antena (2014) at Baffler Art Museum in Houston and The New York Art Book Fair 2012, Mx Editions at MoMA PS1 in New York City, among others.
She collaborated with artist Abraham Cruzvillegas and other six artists in La Galería de Comercio (2010-2014), a non-profit artist run project, which invited people to present ephemeral events in a street corner of Mexico City. La Galería de Comercio's documentation process has been shown in Memoria Abierta, La Galería de Comercio en Casa del Lago (2014), México city and 4 Projects in Mexico at Kunstverein München (2013) in Germany.
Montiel currently is starting a Master in Fine Arts in Studio at School of the Art Institute in Chicago. She obtained a bachelor degree at Facultad de Artes y Diseño (FAD-UNAM) and continued her studies in contemporary art at Soma, an artist organization dedicated to pedagogy based in Mexico City. She has been artist-in-residence at International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP (2012) in New York City, Jackman Residency Program at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago and Davidoff Art Initiative in Dominic Republic.
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