Artists
Marilyn Boror Bor
- 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, Argentina, 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
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- 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 Panama, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin (Colombia)
- 2023
- 35th Bienal de Sao 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