Marisa Boullosa facts for kids
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Marisa Boullosa
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Marisa Boullosa was born on March 11, 1961, in Mexico City, Mexico. She is a talented artist from Mexico. Today, she lives and works in San Miguel De Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Marisa Boullosa's artworks are part of important art collections around the world. You can find her pieces in places like the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Canada, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Ireland, and the National Gallery of Australia. Her art is also displayed in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales in Uruguay.
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Marisa Boullosa's Education
Marisa Boullosa studied many different art forms. First, she learned about restoring old artworks, keeping them safe, and how museums work. In 1979, she went to the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) to study engraving and painting.
Later, in 1986, she traveled to the University of Toronto to learn about making sculptures from wire textiles. She continued her studies in Barcelona, Spain, at the Massana School of Art and Design. There, she focused on painting and printmaking. Marisa earned her master's degree in Studio Arts from the REALIA Institute for Culture and Arts in Xalapa, Mexico.
Her Art Career
Marisa Boullosa had her very first art show in 1987 in Mexico City. It was called Enredos. In 2003, she showed her art at a special exhibition in Spain called the 23rd Mini Print International of Cadaqués.
Marisa describes her art as feeling a bit "nostalgic." This means it reminds people of the past in a warm, sometimes sad, way. She uses many different things in her art, like photos, old papers, clothes, and objects she finds. She also uses maps and special items that people have kept. She wants her art to feel like an old memory, showing the delicate and personal parts of being human. Marisa believes the objects in her art are like witnesses to the lives of the people who owned them. She also makes prints and engravings on fabrics, metal, wood, amate paper, and other materials. She uses techniques like etching and linocut.
In 2003, Marisa Boullosa was an artist-in-residence at the Pratt Institute. During this time, she created art about the experiences of Latino immigration and people who work in different countries. She used ceramic figures and prints for these artworks.
Her prints have been shown in New York City at the International Print Center New York. Her work was also displayed in Sweden at the Museum of Fine Arts Bern in 2010 for an exhibition called "Estampas, Independencia y Revolucion." In 2012, she had art shown in Arizona for the Border Project, which was part of the state's 100th birthday celebration at the University of Arizona.
In 2014, Marisa took part in an art installation called "You are your house, I am mine" at the Museo de Ciudad. This project explored family structures, and Marisa created prints for it. In 2017, she was an artist-in-residence at the ChacalArt Residency, where she taught printmaking workshops to local school children.
Marisa Boullosa also uses her art to speak out about important social issues. She created a powerful work called "Flores vivas y flores muertas" (living flowers and dead flowers). This art piece brought attention to the issue of unfairness and harm against women. It was shown in Tlaxcala, Mexico. In 2018, her exhibition "Nothing-Nobody" also addressed similar issues in Veracruz, Mexico. She has also donated her art to help a conservation project in El Charco, Mexico.
Marisa often has exhibitions in Spain, Mexico, and the United States.
Notable Artworks
Here are some of Marisa Boullosa's artworks that you can see through the Pollock-Krasner Foundation:
- Family Photo Album: This piece was made in 2010. It features colored family photos printed on square pieces of wood. These pieces are tied together with red string.
- White Dresses: Created in 2010, this artwork uses prints on Japanese paper. It's an installation that looks like a photograph of dresses hanging on a clothesline on a sunny day.
- Cotidianamente...(Everyday...): Made in 2009, this is an installation with linocut prints on cotton, using red paint and black ink. It shows a group of brooms standing up, with prints of faces at the top of each broom.
- Fragility: This print from 2009 shows three separate images in a vertical line. At the top is a purple baby dress, in the middle is a photograph of a baby, and at the bottom are black shoes with string or wire around them.
You can also find her work in the Google Arts and Culture collection, with a physical piece owned by UDLAP:
- Ninez: This collagraphy print was made in 2015. It's a black-and-white image of a little girl's dress. Marisa's art often explores memories, lost items, or things from the past, and this work fits that theme.
Exhibitions
Marisa Boullosa has had many art shows. Here are some of them:
- Intimacy or life in red, Rome, 1993
- Fragile or me rompo, Mexico, 1994
- Memory of Desire, Mexico, 1997
- Nature, Mexico City, 1997
- Flor-esencias, Mexico City, 1999
- Internal Garden, Mexico City, 2000
- Testigos del Andar, Guadalajara, 2001
- Divas, Mexico, 2002-2003
- Entre-líneas, Guadalajara, 2004
- Faces of the Past, Guadalajara, 2004
- Migrants, Puerto Rico, 2006
- Family Album, Bulgaria, 2009
- IPCNY, New York, 2010
- Memories, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 2010
- Sobre el Mar, San Miguel de Allende, 2010
- Lords and Fruits, San Miguel de Allende, 2012
- Pinto, Rope and Toy, San Miguel de Allende, 2012
- Wounded Border, San Miguel de Allende, 2011-2012
- Guardaroppa, San Miguel de Allende, March 2019
- Monotipia, San Miguel de Allende, July 2019
- Historias de lo kotidiano, March 2020
Collections
Marisa Boullosa's art is part of these important collections:
- Centro Cultural Ignacio Tamires in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- Irish Museum of Modern Art, in Dublin, Ireland
- Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, in Quebec Canada
- Museo Taller Erasto Cortes (MUTEC) in Puebla, Mexico
- National Gallery of Australia in Parkes ACT, Australia
Awards and Recognitions
Marisa Boullosa has received several awards for her amazing art:
- 1st Prize VI and XI National Engraving Prize José Guadalupe Posada, Mexico, 1998
- 1st Prize VI and XI National Engraving Prize José Guadalupe Posada, Mexico, 2001
- II International Biennial of Mini-Print Award, Poland, 2002
- Selection Award, Space International Print Biennial, Korea, 2002
- Resident Artist, Pratt Institute, New York, 2003
- Best of the Show, Winter Juried Exhibition, Texas, 2004
- Selection Award, Space International Print Biennial, Korea, 2004
- Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Illinois, 2005
- Puebla de Los Angeles Biennial Acquisition Award, 2011
- Pollock Krasner Grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation New York, 2011
- Puebla de los Angeles Biennial Acquisition Award, 2011
