LISSETTE JIMÉNEZ
RESUME
Oaxaca, México (1987)
Lissette Jiménez Díaz is a Mexican visual artist. She earned her BFA in Visual and Fine Arts from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” (ENPEG), México (2007–2011), and completed her Master’s Degree in Artistic Production and Research (ProdArt), with a specialization in Image Technology, at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (2022–2023).
She has been the recipient of various grants and programs, including the Oaxaca State Grant for Artistic Creation and Development (PECDA) in 2015 and 2021, the Fundación Jumex Contemporary Art Grant (2022–2023), and support from CONACYT’s Cultural Professionals and Art Program (2022).
Her work has been exhibited individually at the Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños (MUPO), the Galería Leopoldo Batres, and Córdoba Lab Galería; and collectively at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center, the Rubin Center (UTEP), the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (CaSa), the Centro Nacional de las Artes (CENART), and in the traveling exhibition Miradas Glocales across Latin America.
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Can an artist’s work be the archaeology of itself? What happens when the boundaries between an archaeological object and an artistic one are blurred? The origin of the artist’s projects and her exploration into the realm of archaeology can be traced back to the flooding of her home.
This experience, in addition to turning her home into her first personal excavation site, transformed her artistic practice, leading her to search, since then, for her own notion of archaeology. Her search and recovery practices, as well as the objects she finds in the anachronistic terrains of the peripheries of Oaxaca City, at times intersect with Mitla, its ruins and its tepalcates that still continue to sprout on the slopes of the river that crosses this city. These collections give rise to new forms of symbolic and spatial relationship with pre-Hispanic objects, and carry with them traits of dissidence with respect to the institutional protocols exercised in archaeological and site museums. In 2020 he published Tepalcate, an artist’s book containing a series of images and thoughts on his work.
She received support from the Fundación Júmex Arte Contemporáneo Scholarship Program, 2022-2023 and from the Programa de apoyo a Profesionales de la Cultura y el Programa de Arte del CONACYT Convenios SACPCFINBA, 2022. Lives and works in Vigo, Spain.
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Education
2022–2023
Master’s Degree in Artistic Production and Research (ProdArt), specialization in Image Technology, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.Grants & Awards
2022–2023 – Fundación Jumex Contemporary Art Grant
2022 – CONACYT Cultural Professionals and Art Program, SACPC-FINBA Agreement
2021 / 2015 – Oaxaca State Grant for Artistic Creation and Development (PECDA)
Solo Exhibitions
2020 – Córdoba Lab Galería, Oaxaca, Mexico
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 – Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (CaSa), Oaxaca, Mexico
2021 – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Mexico
2020 – Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico
Publications
2020 – Tepalcate, an artist’s book containing images and reflections on her work