Exhibition

Profile

• Born 1984 in San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala. Based in Guatemala, Guatemala.

Marilyn Boror Bor is a Maya-Kaqchikel artist, independent curator, art professor, and cultural manager. She has a degree in art from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, recognized for its broad handling of materials and a socially engaged artistic practice. She explores themes of Indigenous identity, historical memory, colonialism, and resistance. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Boror’s work has been exhibited in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentine, Barbados, Brazil, Ecuador, United States, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Malaysia, and UK. Her work has been selected as part of Phaidon Art Next Generation, over 100 of the most innovative and interesting contemporary artists working in all media worldwide.

Selected exhibitions

2024

Fugas de lo nuestro. Visualidades indigenas de sur a norte, Museo de la solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago, Chile)

2024

Musa. Perspectivas femeninas en las Colecciones del MAMM y MAC Panamá, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin (Colombia)

2023

35th Bienal de São Paulo: choreographies of the impossible (Brazil)

2023

XXIII Paiz Art Biennial: I drank words submerged in dreams (Guatemala)

2022

COMMUNICATING VESSELS. Collection 1881–2021, Museo Nacional Centro de ArteReina Sofia (Madrid, Spain)

• “They too, the mountains, gave us back concrete.” 2022