Paloma Vianey is a Mexican artist from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Growing up a few miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border, her work narrates her daily experience of crossing this political division. She also creates images of Ciudad Juárez, where she emphasizes its urban landscapes and the often overlooked buildings, aiming to provide different narratives. Through paintings, etchings, and sculptures, she explores themes of vulnerability, tension, and her desire for violence-free communities.
Paloma was an artist-in-residence at the Antonio Gala Foundation in Cordova, Spain (2021-2022), where she worked on her series of knot paintings, a project of highly chromatic sculptural paintings that depict both fictional and real scenes of Ciudad Juárez and the U.S.-Mexico border. She has been a recipient of The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2020 and 2021), the John Hartell Award for Graduate Students at Cornell University, the National Fund of the Arts in Mexico, the Institute for Mexicans in the Exterior and The Mellon Urbanism Fellowship. She also has an installation at the Américas-Cordova International Bridge, one of the most transited international bridges on the U.S.-Mexico border.