Sandra del Pilar Biography

Sandra del Pilar (b. 1973, Mexico) deals – in her paintings, objects and installations – with the phenomenon of transparency, which the artist understands as the place where the private and the political meet. With the transparent synthetic fibres she uses in her works, she materialises dream-like scenarios from the collective and personal memory, overrides our idea of ​​(image-) space and (linear) time, interweaves inside and outside, the world of images and the viewer's body and thus enables another look at the political and social events and conditions of our time.

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Sandra del Pilar has completed her studies on painting at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, her PhD in art history at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and a second PhD in visual arts at the Faculty of Art and Design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is currently a fellow of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte at FONCA in Mexico. In Germany, Del Pilar was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and of the DAAD (German National Academic Foundation), and also received funding from the LVR (Landschaftsverband Rheinland). Her artistic work has been awarded several times both in Mexico and in Germany. Her paintings are represented in museums, public and private galleries and collections, as well as at biennials in Mexico, Germany, France, Belgium, China and Bolivia. Recently, a documentary by Sergio Sanjinés about her artistic work premiered in the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City. Her texts and essays have also been published in international journals, anthologies, catalogs and newspapers. She currently works and lives in Germany and Mexico.

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La Historia Verdadera - De Malintzin y Sandra del Pilar by Sandra del Pilar contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, print, drawing
Sandra del Pilar La Historia Verdadera - De Malintzin y Sandra del Pilar, 2023 Artists book, taller; Blackstone: Amate paper, silk, hand coloured with aquarell colour on silk, numbered and signed.
23 x 19 x 5 cm
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Adelita I. from the series Historia en la piel by Sandra del Pilar contemporary artwork painting
Sandra del Pilar Adelita I. from the series Historia en la piel, 2018 Oil on canvas and transparent fibre
80 x 70 cm
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Sí se puede. from the series Historia en la Piel by Sandra del Pilar contemporary artwork painting, mixed media
Sandra del Pilar Sí se puede. from the series Historia en la Piel, 2018 Oil on canvas and transparent fibre
80 x 70 cm
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Zilberman contemporary art gallery in Istanbul, Turkiye
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