Julieta Aranda

Julieta Aranda was born in Mexico City. She received a BFA in filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts (2001) and an MFA from Columbia University (2006), both in New York.

Her explorations span installation, video, and print media, with a special interest in the creation and manipulation of artistic exchange and the subversion of traditional notions of commerce through art making. Aranda’s body of work exists outside the boundaries of the object. Her installations and temporary projects, which often examine social interactions and the role that the circulation of objects plays in the cycles of production and consumption, are intensely site-specific.

Aranda was an artist in residence at Iaspis, the International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm, (2007) as well as at the International Residence at Recollets in Paris (2008). Aranda’s work has been exhibited internationally, in venues such as the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); Guggenheim Museum (2015, 2009); Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2015); 8th Berlin Biennale (2014); Berardo Museum, Lisbon (2014); Witte de With (2013 and 2010), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa (2013); MACRO, Rome (2012); Documenta 13 (2012); N.B.K. (2012); Gwangju Biennial (2012); 54th Venice Biennial (2011); Istanbul Biennial (2011); Portikus, Frankfurt (2011); New Museum NY (2010); Kunstverein Arnsberg (2010); MOCA Miami (2009); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2007); 2nd Moscow Biennial (2007); MUSAC, Spain (2010 and 2006); and VII Havanna Biennial, among many others.