Magali Avila- Artista Contemporánea

"The main themes of my work are the connection between the figurative and the abstract, and the relationship between physical space and interior emotions."

"My intention is to develop a 'creative rescue' of this relationship. I seek to connect the physical, exterior world - your walk down the street, the lights in your kitchen, the tablet you are holding now – to the vast sea of emotion and thought of your interior world. This is what interests me as an artist."

"My work is also, essentially, about the human experience, and our constant search for identity and meaning - including the life-death duality and how it affects our daily lives."

"Through images and constructions, I explore this underlying tension between life and death. There I see a “transition point” – essentially life itself, which so always returns to the “eternal truth."

Life = Death = Pleasure and Pain

"By embracing this truth, I believe art can amplify our human experience, and deepen the joy of our daily existence."

Profile & Background

Magali studied Visual Arts at Incarnate Word College, United States (1987), and Contemporary Dance at the National System for the Development of Dance INBA, Mexico (1994).

There have been more than 15 solo exhibitions of her work, including in in Mexico, the United States, Spain and Switzerland. She has also been part of more than 40 group exhibitions in Europe, USA and Mexico.

From 2007 to 2011 she lived in Spain, where she developed as an artist and followed various courses, workshops and masters: Image and sound at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2007; 3D architectural design in Puerto de Sagunto, Spain, 2010.

Throughout her career she has received several awards, such as the Young Creators Award of the Veracruz Institute of Culture, and a selection of work by the Biennial Foundation Arangagüey, Spain.

She was a 2011 member of the National System of Art Creators.

Solo Exhibitions

Group
Exhibitions

Among Avila's solo exhibitions in Mexico, Spain, Switzerland and Germany:

2022-Liquid Territories, Mexico City Museum, Mexico.
2022-Constellations within a dream by Tlazoltéotl, Barítono Art Gallery, Tepoztlán Morelos
2020-Bodies of Water, La 303 Gallery, Fabrica la Aurora, San Miguel de Allende, Gto; Mexico
2019-Transversal journey- La303 Gallery, Fábrica la Aurora, San Miguel de Allende, Gto.Mexico
2017-Variation on Emptiness, Roma Condesa Cultural Corridor, Sismo Gallery, CDMX.
2016-Presentation of Painting-Mural- Soledad Project, Sebastián Foundation, CDMX.
2015-Sublimes Moradas, Cultural Center of Contemporary Mexico, CDMX.
2014-Et Lux, Stella Magni Gallery, CDMX
2009-From the three, Swaeff Art, Mallorca Puntiró, Spain.
2008-Blood & Bees, La Esquina, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
2007-Mirrors, El Aire Cultural Center, CDMX.
2008-Of the Tree, Rios Art, Nurenmberg, Germany.
2006-Of the Tree of life, Space Gallery, Morges, Switzerland.
2001-Autumn Winter Collection, Hacienda San Gabriel de las Palmas, Morelos.
1996-Paintings, Ramón Alva de la Canal Gallery, Veracruzana University of Xalapa, Veracruz
1995-Captive atmospheres, Veracruzano Institute of Culture, Puerto de Veracruz

2022-Recorded in the environment, 25 artists facing the ecological crisis of the planet, Plaza 23 de Mayo, Festival Aleph CDMX.
2022 -Liliths de Mayo, Galería la Mercantil, Coyoacán CDMX.
2022- Presentation and exhibition of “Liquid Territories” at Galería Cuatro Siete, Oaxaca, Mexico.
2022-Pictorial action against violence against journalists, organized by Gabriel Mácatela, Insurgentes and Yucatan, CDMX.
2021-«Water bodies or do not step on the brake, No to the Huesca Thermoelectric in Morelos / Samir Flores», virtual group exhibition.
2018-Selection of work 3rd Biennial of Painting JA Monroy, University of Guadalajara, Jalisco. Peter Gray Museum of Art.
2017-Riding the Beast, traveling exhibition, Mexico- USA.
2016-Graphic Archive, Casa de Cultura San Rafael, CDMX.
2015-TACO, contemporary art tianguis, Foro Tláhuac, CDMX.
2015-Second Havana Biennial, Damián Flores and the Curtiduría, Cuba. 2015-Bragar in Action, Homage to Philippe Bragar, Salón Des Aztecas, CDMX.
2012-2014-«Migrant suitcases», traveling exhibition shown at European Foundation Center Philanthropy House (Brussels, Belgium); Tijuana Cultural Center, CECUT (Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico); National Museum of Anthropology, Dr. David J. Guzmán (San Salvador, El Salvador); Museum of Memory and Tolerance, CDMX.
2013-14- Fractured horizons, at the Celda Contemporánea space of the Claustro de Sor Juana, CDMX.
2013-Unnamed collective, Veracruzano Museum of Culture, CDMX.
2011-Mexican & Spanish Artist Collide, Sculptures by designing Art Studio, Houston Texas.
2007- «Juego de Formas», five artists with presence in Switzerland, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puebla, Mexico.
2005-Guadalupe in popular culture, Rejas del Bosque de Chapultepec, CDMX.