BIO

Natalia Barrientos is a visual artist who works with the individual memory and family archives to seek her origin and identity in the present through the intervention of the past. Returning to the origin means to find a transnational link in the filial bonds, a common point of intersection that is developed in her practice.

She currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Natalia Barrientos es una artista visual que trabaja con la memoria individual y los archivos familiares. A través de la intervención del pasado busca su origen y su identidad en el presente. Volver al origen significa encontrar un vinculo transnacional en los lazos filiales, un punto de intersección común que se desarrolla en su practica.

Actualmente vive en Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Resume

Natalia Barrientos

Visual Artist

Education

2022 Diploma Certificate in Higher Education, Universidad Católica Boliviana, Tarija - Bolivia

2018 Bachelor in Fine Arts - Photography & Digital Media, University of Houston, Houston, TX - USA

Exhibitions

2024 “Mirtha”, Festival de Cine y Artes Visuales “Enjambre”, Fundación Kunayan, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

2023 "No quiero ser permanente”, Group exhibition “Creadoras, mujeres artistas en Bolivia”, Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz - Bolivia

2023 "Vos eras la Gloria”, screening organized by Revista Balam y galería Húmeda, Buenos Aires - Argentina 

2022 "Divinidad Sensual", group exhibition "Miradas de Bolivia", XV Feria Internacional del libro Cochabamba - Bolivia

2021  “Cosechada en Tierra Santa, Consumida por la Plaga, Eres mi Fruta Favorita, Mujeres Malas Collective, The Big Show Awardee, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX-USA

2021  “Creiste en Todo lo que te Di”, The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Tx - USA

2021  “Vos No Me Dejaste, Tampoco yo a vos”, The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Tx - USA

2021  “Cosechada en Tierra Santa, Consumida por la Plaga, Eres mi Fruta Favorita, Online Exhibition “Group Show 66: La Frontera, a new Latinx Lexicon”, Humble Arts Foundation, USA

2020 “Peregrino”, Group Show Fe: Online Exhibition, Femgrafia, Viceversa Magazine

2019 "Rubios Dorados 81 -Sol Rubio Claro Ceniza", Residency “Existimos”, Galeria Kiosko, Santa Cruz - Bolivia

2019 "Rubios Dorados 81 -Sol Rubio Claro Ceniza", Residency “Existimos”, Takubamba, CasaArte Takubamba, Sucre -Bolivia

2018 "Alma Não Tem Cor", School of Art Annual Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Tx - USA

2018 "Amorita", FIA Festival Internacional Audiovisual, Universidad de la Sabana, COLOMBIA

2018 "11 de Marzo, 2017", Interwoven Spaces, Rudolph Blume Fine Artscan Gallery, Houston, Tx - USA

2018 "KT", Ratio Redux: A photography Exhibition, The Hardy and Nance Studios Houston, Tx - USA

2018 "Mirtha", El Chow: Fruto en Vaina, El Rincon Social, Houston, Tx - USA

2018 "My Father's Cardiogram", Los Angeles CineFest, LA

2017 "Ode To Menstruation", Mujeres Malas Collective Pop Up Show, Houston, Tx - USA

2017 "One Minute MADE", Mujeres Malas Collective Pop Up Show, Houston, Tx - USA

2017 "Amorita", So Limitless and Free Film Festival, Montreal, Quebec

2017 "Amorita", Fresh Meet International Film Festival, Quito - Ecuador

2017 "Amorita", Extremely Shorts Film Festival, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Tx - USA

2017 "Amorita", School of Art Annual Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Tx - USA

2016 "Gum Hurts My Teeth", The Hardy and Nance Studios, Houston, Tx - USA

Workshops- Publications

2023, “Intervenxions Vol II”, “Mujeres Subersivas: Bolivian and Diasporic Feminist Art & Activism”, The latinx Project, written by Julianne Chandler, NYU, NY-USA

2022, Online Publication/Art criticism: “Mujeres Subersivas: Bolivian and Diasporic Feminist Art & Activism”, The latinx Project, written by Julianne Chandler, NYU

2022 “Pill ow”, photobook edited by Rora Blue, EEUU

2021 “Lo familiar y lo perdido”, fanzine Curated by Mujeres Malas in collaboration with Fifth Wheel Press, Houston, Tx - USA

2021 Taller FemgrafiaLab “ Procesos Autobiográficos” dictado por Elizabeth Casasola

2020 “Amorita”, The open culture collective, USA

2020 “Untitled”, Fragmented Magazine, USA

2020 “1987”, Aji de Lenguas Magazine, BOLIVIA, ARGENTINA

2019 Facilitator Workshop: ” El Documental Performatico”, at Un Laboratorio de Cine, Government Grant Intervenciones Urbanas, Tarija, Bolivia

2019 Publication “Emociones Femeninas”, Editorialmente, Chile

2019 Artist in Residence, “Existimos”, Residencia Fotografica en narrativa de Genero, Sucre - Bolivia

2018 Participant, Performance Workshop with Elia Arce

Contact

nataliabarrientosr@gmail.com