Cuautla, Mexico (1988)

Visual artist and integral designer graduated from the Design School of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico. Her creative practice spans various areas: drawing, painting, illustration, design, muralism, and tattoos. Her artistic work seeks to portray the relationship with her own body and is enriched by continuous historiographic research on the body and sexuality. She was a two-time grantee of the Jóvenes Creadores program by the Ministry of Culture in 2014 and 2016 in the category of graphic arts.

Since 2014, her professional work as an illustrator has accompanied texts on topics of her interest, such as feminism, sexual education, the historical representation of women, sexual diversity, and bodies, in media outlets like Global Press Journal, The Washington Post, Revista de la Universidad, Revista Tierra Adentro, Revista Casa del Tiempo, Revista Gatopardo, among others. Her work has been exhibited in various museums in Mexico, and currently, in 2024, with a monumental mural commissioned by and within the Museo Universitario del Chopo as part of the exhibition Lumbre, Ilustradoras en México. She has also been part of the Diseño en Femenino, México 1940-2022 exhibition at the Museo Franz Mayer and later at the Casa de México en España in Madrid, Spain, in 2023-24. She also participated in the exhibition Escrituras en Presente Continuo. Maaa Mo Mí Me Muu at the Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 2022, and as part of the Gran Formato residency at the Centro Cultural Clavijero in Morelia, Michoacán, in 2022.

María is the art director and illustrator of the animated short film Llueve, directed by Carolina Corral and Magali Rocha Donnadieu, which was part of the official selection of the 19th Morelia International Film Festival. It received the "Alejandra Rangel Hinojosa" Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2021, awarded by the Association of Women in Film and TV in Mexico. The film was also part of the 61 Semaine de la Critique in Cannes and received the Special Jury Prize at the International Political Film Festival in Argentina in 2022.

María is the co-founder and art director of Pussypedia.net, a free, bilingual online encyclopedia about the pussy, with which they won first place at the 10th National Design Biennial in Mexico in the professional category of Socially Responsible Design with Social or Participatory Content in 2019. They also won the People's Voice Award in the Educational Websites category at The Webby Awards for being the best educational website on the internet in 2020. The first book illustrated by María Conejo, Pussypedia, A Comprehensive Guide, was published in New York in August 2021 under Hachette Books and has been published in six different languages to date.