Ciudad de Guatemala, 1974. 51 years old.

Lives and works in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Studio: (+502) 2251-5996 / Cellphone: (+502) 4271-1807

email: sandra.monterrosoj@gmail.com

University: Academy of Arts Vienna 

Country: Austria

Specialty: Culture, epistemology, philosophy, decolonial theory, artistic practice.

Title: Phd in Practice. Dr. Philosophy. 

Duration Studies: 6 years. 

Date of realization: 2014-2020 

Degree date: 2020 

University: Popular Autonomous of Puebla

Country: México

Specialty: Design processes: rhetoric and semiology.

Title: Master in Design Processes.

Duration Studies: 2 years.

Date of realization: 2002-2004

Degree date: 2007

University: Jaume I University, Study Center for peace.

Country: Spain.

Subject of study: Philosophy 

Date of realization: 2001

University: Rafael Landivar of Guatemala

Career: Graphic Design

Degree obtained: Undergraduate. 

Graduation Year: 2000

2025

“The zigzag of the mountain” 

NG Art Gallery, Panamá.

2023

“La Paradoja de Sanar”, Sicardi / Ayers / Bacino, Houston, Texas, E.E.U.U.

“La herida, la venda, la cura”, Zielinsky, Barcelona, España.

2022

“Altar for birds”, Instituto de Visión, NY.

2020

"Threads of Memory”, Sicardi Ayers Bacino, Houston, Texas, USA.

“Dyed in the wool - the committed poetics of nonconformity”, Cecilia Brunson Projects. London.

2019

“Las heridas también se tiñen de azul”, Centro Cultural de España en Guatemala.

“El agua se volvió oro, el río se volvió oro, el oro se volvió azul”, Museo ExTeresa, CDMX. México.

2018

“Hybris”, NG Gallery, Panama City, Panamá.

2017

“Inchaq'na / Hermana Mayor”, Alianza Francesa, Guatemala City, Guatemala. 
“Distorsiones e imperfecciones”, The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2014

“Acciones para abolir el deseo”, The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2013

“Efectos cruzados”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Salvador, El Salvador.

2011

“Efectos cruzados”, Galería Piegatto (Arte La Fábrica), Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2009

“Meditando el error”, Galería de Artes Visuales, Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2008

“Rakoc Atin”, Palacio de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2005

“Sucesos Carcomidos”, Galería El Attico, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2004

“Metabolismo”, Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2024

“I’ll release a Hundred Rabbits and you’ll see how you manage to put them all together”

Zielinsky gallery. Barcelona, Spain.

“The Colors of Miami. Beyond the Boundaries”. 

Cultural Institute of Mexico. Miami, U.S.A.

“Pies bajo fuego: Sobre el despojo (Feet Under Fire: On Dispossession)”. MAC Contemporary Art Museum, Panama.

“Corazón del lugar del viento (Heart of the Place of the Wind)”. Worlds World Worlds, San Francisco, USA.

“THREADS TO THE SOUTH”.

THE INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES ON LATIN AMERICAN ART (ISLAA). New York, USA.

“Denver Art Museum”.

Logan Lecture Series JewelBox Gallery. USA.

“ARCOMadrid”

Madrid, España.

“Zona Maco 2024”

Ciudad de México, México.

2023

“Untitled Art”

Miami, Florida, USA.

“ArtBo: Art in Bogotá”

Bogotá, Colombia.

“ReVisión: Art in the Americas”.

Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA), USA

“Denver Art Museum”.

In the Arts of the Ancient Americas JewelBox Gallery. USA

“Art for the Future”: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities.

De Paul Art Museum, USA.

2022

Art Basel, Nova Booth. Instituto de Visión, Miami.

“Cuerpos infinitos (Infinite bodies) ”, Casa del LAGO, UNAM. CDMX, México.

“Elsewhere(s). Other worlds, other times, other territories”, Another Space, NY. USA.

“Revisiónes. El máiz que alimenta”, Denver Art Museum, USA.

“Rethinkin Nature”, Museo Madre, Milan, Italia.

“Art for the Future: Artist Call and Central American Solidarities”, Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, USA.

2021

“Trough the Eye of the Needle”, Sicardy / Ayers / Bacino, Houston, USA.

“En tierra esteril convertida”, MAC, Museum. Puerto Rico.

“El origen del mundo”, Instituto de Visión. Bogotá, Colombia.

“Radical Empathies”, Callirrhoe. Athens, Greece.

“The Listenig Biennal”, Berlin, Germany. Guadalajara, México.

“Discovering viceral Latin American Treasures”, Colnagui, Londres, NY.

Art Basel, Instituto de Visión, Miami.

Untitled, Sicardy / Ayers / Bacino, Miami.

2020

“De-celerate”, The Tetuhiart, Nueva Zelanda.

“This Might be a Place for hummingbirds”, The White Box, Münich, Germany.

“To Weave in Blue; Poema al tejido”, The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Menphis. USA.

2019

“Cosmópolis II”, Museo Pompidou, Paris, Francia.

“Ingesta”, Teorética, Costa Rica.

“Border”; Latin American Art Triennial, Longwood Art Gallery. NY. USA.

“This Might be a Place for hummingbirds”, Galerie im Körnerpark Berlin, Germany.

2018

“Inchaq'na / Hermana Mayor”, BACCA, Bienal, Toronto, Canadá.

“Indigenous Voices”, 11a. Bienal del Mercosur. Puerto Alegre, Brasil.

2017

“Decolonizing Nature”, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“Flores”, VBKÖ, Vienna, Austria.

“Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art from 1960-Present”, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

“Entre Post-Verdades y Acontecimientos”, Frestas: Trienal de Artes, SESC Sorocaba, Brazil.
Salón Internacional de Arte Indígena, Manuel Quintín Lame. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá and Museo Zenú de Arte Contemporáneo, Montería, Colombia.

“La intimidad es política”, Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador.

2016

“Overlap / Traslape”, The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

“Uno como otro / Du som jag”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Havremagasinet, Suecia.

“Anti Colonial Fantasies”, Exit, Academia de Arte de Viena, Viena, Austria.

“Touch the reality”, Kunst Raum, Viena, Austria.

2015

“Casa blanca, casa nuestra”, Entre la Idea y la Experiencia, 12 Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba.

“Guatemala Después: Rethinking the Past, Reimagining the Now”, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, The New School, New York.

“Indigenous Voices”, Padiglione America Latina-IILA, 56 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.

“Recent Video from Latin America”, Harold M. William Auditorium, The Getty Center, Los Angeles.

“5 RPM”, The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

“…pero no soy fotógrafo,” The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2014

“Largo x Ancho x Alto”, The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

“Film Festival Cine Latino“, Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France.

“How much engaged?”, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.

“500 Años de Futuro”, 2da. Bienal de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.

2013

“Saber desconocer”, 43 Salón (inter) Nacional de Artistas, Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.

“In Art We Trust”, Sol del Río, Guatemala, Guatemala.

“Videoakt III”, Bienal Internacional de Videoarte, Barcelona, Spain.

2012

“GRID,” International Photography and Video Biennial, Amersfoort, the Netherlands.

“GlobAll Mix”, Galpão das Artes, Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“Convivir, Compartir”, XVIII Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2011

“Mi cuerpo es un arma”, Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

2010

“Miradas de Mujer”, Centro Cultural de España en México, Mexico City, Mexico.

“Miradas transversales, políticas del cuerpo”, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico.

“Ver para Creer”, XVII Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

“My Body is a Weapon”, Biennial of the Americas, Denver, Colorado.

2009

“Art-Action Feministe: Panorama de la vidéo-performance féministe contemporaine latino-américaine“, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

“Performing Localities: Recent Guatemalan Performance Art on Video”, Institute of International Visual Arts, London.

“Visionarios”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.

2008

“No Es lo que Es. Arte Objeto”, ArteCentro, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

“Visionarios”, Vídeo e Film Experimental, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.

XVI Bienal de Arte Paiz Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2007

“Encuentro de Arte Corporal”, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela.

“Libertad”, Performance “Somática,” Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

“Arte Nuevo Interactiva 07”, Bienal Internacional de la Nuevas Artes y Laboratorio Interdisciplinario, Merida, Mexico.

RIAA - Residencia Internacional de Artistas en Argentina, Centro Cultural de España, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2006

“Inquieta Imagen / Centroamérica En Video”, Centro Fundación Telefónica del Perú, Lima, Peru.

Curaduría / Curated by: Ernesto Calvo.

XV Bienal Paiz Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

V Bienal del Istmo Centro Americano, Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador.

2005

“Videografías invisibles: Una selección de video arte latinoamericano”, Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain.

“Registro III”, Galería Sol del Río, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

1er Salón del grabado, Museo de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2004

“Video arte centroamericano”, Centro de Arte Le plateu, Paris.

“Inquieta Imagen”, 3er Concurso Centroamericano de Videocreación, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San Jose, Costa Rica.

“Geografías Suaves”, Video Arte, Merida, Mexico.

2003

“Instalación e Incertidumbre”, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Puebla, México.

“De la cocina a la cama”, Octavo Salón Independiente de Arte Erótico, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño, Puebla, Me

México.

2001

“Suyo/ajeno, ajeno/suyo”, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico.

2022

Cifo Art Prize Nomination.

2020

Nominación a Premio Julius Baer a las Artes, Bogotá, Colombia.

2012

2do lugar Juannio, Subasta de arte latinoamericano, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2011

3er lugar Juannio, Subasta de arte latinoamericano, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2008

Mención Honorífica, XVI Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2006

1er Premio Glifo de Oro, XV Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Mención Honorífica Juannio, Subasta de arte latinoamericano, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2005

1er Premio, Categoría Caña de Azúcar, 1er Salón Nacional de Grabado, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2004

1er premio, Inquieta imagen, III concurso de video arte centroamericano, San Jose, Costa Rica.

1999

Jóvenes Creadores BANCAFE, Bancafé, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2025

Cité des Arts Residence. Paris, France.

2022

D+C Foundation Residence. Miami, USA.

2018

La Tallera. Residencia Artística, Cuernavaca. México.

Laspis residency Programme. Sweden.

2014

RD Foundation Vienna, Research, Development, Human Rights.

Fundación Guatefuturo.

2010

Young Researcher Grant, Valencia University, Valencia, Spain.

2007

RIAA - Residencia Internacional de Artistas en Argentina, Centro Cultural de España, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2000

Peace and Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain.

1999

Young creators. BANCAFE. Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Colección Reyna Sofía, Madrid.

Perez Art Museum. PAM Miami.

Colección Yes Contemporary, Miami.

Colección Fundación Paiz para el arte y la cultura, Guatemala.

Colección university of Essex, Colchester, Inglaterra.

Colección Fundación YAXS, Guatemala.

Fundación Ortíz Gurdián, Managua, Nicaragua.

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.

Colección Mario Cader-Frech.

Colección Ernesto Poma.

Colecciones privadas en Guatemala, México, Panamá, UK, USA.

Department of Arts and Education, Municipality of Guatemala. Guatemala. 

PERFORMANCE: HISTORY AND ARTISTIC PRACTICE ARTISTIC PRACTICE PROJECT ADVICE FOR STUDENTS. 

Working period: 2018-2019 

Teaching Position: Professor by contract.

Course or Unit: Diploma in Visual Arts 

Da Vinci University. Guatemala

VISUAL AND DESIGN COMMUNICATION. COLOR THEORY.

Working period: 2018-2022

Teaching Position: Professor by contract.

Course or Unit: Graphic Design. 

Paiz, Foundation. Guatemala

CONTEMPORARY ART LABORATORY.

Working period: From September 2016 - June 2017. 

Teaching Position: Professor by contract.

Course or Unit: 

Academy of Arts Vienna. Austria. Cultural Studies department. 

BORDER AS METHOD SEMINAR.

Working period: 2015 -2016 Winter Semester. 

Teaching Position: Professor by contract.

Rafael Landivar University, Guatemala. Architecture and Design Faculty. 

Working period: 2001-2010

Teaching Position: Full Professor by contract.

Course or Unit: 

Visual Image Design I (2nd year)

Synthesis of Design II and III (4th year)

Design History II

Design Philosophy (2nd year)

Academic Portfolio Project of graduation. 

Research project advice.

University of San Carlos of Guatemala. USAC. Architecture and Design Faculty. 

Working period: 2005 - 2008

Teaching Position:

Full Professor by contract.

Course or Unit:

Visual design 6 and Visual design 7

Thesis advisor and supervisor.

2009-2010

Design Institute of Research, INDIS. Rafael University

Landivar. Research Projects position. 

2006-2009

Advice for the Municipality of Guatemala - Urban Workshop of the Public Space. Research and action design projects position.  

2005-2007

Inter-American Development Bank and Ministry of Education.

Project Universalization of Basic Education IBRD 7052 / Gu Executing Unit: MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND SPORTS - MDC

Component: Cultural Diversity and Pluralism

Subcomponent: Culture and Education for Sustainable Human Development Diagnosis and restructuring proposal of the National School of Plastic Arts. ENAP

Logan Lecture: Sandra Monterroso.  Series Jewel Box Gallery. Denver Art Museum. U.S.A.  2024.

Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Sandra Monterroso. UNC Art & Art History. U.S.A. 2023.

Monterroso, S. 2019. Tzuultaq´a. Espíritus de La Montana. Spirits of the Mountain: Decolonial Methologies for Healing through Artistic Practice. Wien: Akademie der bildendenden Künste. 

Monterroso, S. 2017. Anti*Colonial Fantasies/Decolonial Strategies. A Conversation. Kuratierenals antirassistische Praxis. Wien: Akademie der bildendenden Künste.

Monterroso, S. 2015. Rokeb’ iq’ / Viento. Voces Indígenas. 56 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – la Biennale di Venezia Padiglione America Latina – IILA. Roma: Instituto Italo-Latino Americano. 

Monterroso, S. 2015. Arte-Estética / Estética-Política. Una perspectiva ranceriana. Academia de Arte de Vienna, departamento de estudios culturales. Wien: Akademie der bildendenden Künste

Monterroso, S. 2015. From political art to the Decolonial option in Guatemalan contemporary art. Iberoámerica Social: Revista-Red De Estudios Sociales, (V), 127–135. Retrieved from https://iberoamericasocial.com/ojs/index.php/IS/article/view/152

Monterroso, S. 2012. Tudo eu! retrospectiva de Felipe Taborda en Guatemala. Guatemala: Diseño, Arte y Cultura, DAC.

Monterroso, S. 2011. Creative Practices, from thought to action through art. Rethink. 

Unesco / Rafael Landivar University, Guatemala: Institute of Humanistic Studies.

Monterroso, S. 2010. The Design at the Service of the Library. Guatemala: INDIS.

Monterroso, S. 2010. Scenographic Poetics and Visual Design. Essay on the

methodology applied to the Design of Senography and Design.

Guatemala: Magazine Culture of Guatemala, Third Era Year XXXI,

Volume II May-August.

Monterroso, S. 2010. Urban Daily Alterations. Guatemala: INDIS / CCE Guatemala.

Monterroso, S. 2009. Mi Huraño Destino, contemporary design inspired by

Urban popular graphics. Essay published in the Exhibition catalog. Guatemala: Editorial Book Viewer.

Monterroso, S. 2009. Design With Sense. Short essay published in the book A Primera Vista, Five years of design at the Center

Cultural of Spain. Guatemala: Editorial Book Viewer.

Monterroso, S. 2004. Visual pollution in the public space. Academic Essay published in memoirs of Research of the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Autonomous University of Puebla. UPAEP Puebla, Mexico.