Natalia Ludmila

Born in1980 in Mexico City and grew up in Toronto, Canada. However, she has spent the more significant part of her adult life abroad and finds this tacitly permeates in her work. Perhaps, as a guiding thread in her choice of subject matter or the need to explore specific themes. A multidisciplinary artist whose practice shifts between painting, drawing, video, and sound. It can be defined as studio-based research that points to the political-questioning forms of representation and the construction of false or biased narratives in the context of conflict. Invested and guided by ideas rather than mediums, for Ludmila, her practice is a tool to locate and highlight social imbalances. She sees in her work the means to start a conversation. Moreover, setting the ground for these social issues to come to light.

Ludmila received a BFA from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and an MA from the University Of Canberra, Australia. She has exhibited in several solo and group shows across the world. And was the Second Prize recipient in the XVIII Ibiza Biennale. Natalia Ludmila has been awarded several grants for international residencies spending time at Sän Art/a.farm/Vietnam, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity/Canada, Cittadellarte/Italy, and INSTINC/Singapore.

Additionally, she had exhibited and had work commissioned by the Diego Rivera Anahucalli Museum (Mexico City). In 2014, she took part in The Great Collaboration project in Singapore along with ten other artists. In the same year, she was listed in the 200 highest expressions of Mexican Art initiative and catalogue and had work selected for the National Landscape Biennale (Mexico). She is a member of the feminist artist network and collective Room to Bloom exploring ecological and decolonial narratives.

Ludmila currently lives and works in Mexico City.

Education

2011 Master of Digital Design University of Canberra, Australia

2006 B.F.A. Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Mexico

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 43+ (In their Words), Centre Clark Montréal, Quebec

"15,754 relatos entre dos despachos /15,754 stories between two offices" ART BOOK

LAUNCH, DISCUSSION, AND BOOK SIGNING, 1PROJECTS in cooperation with SEA

Junction at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) Bangkok, Thailand

"15,754 relatos entre dos despachos /15,754 stories between two offices" Book Reading Performance at The

William Warren Library, The Jim Thomson Art Center, Organized by 1PROJECTS, Bangkok, Thailand

2020 When the Tenth Month Comes Buró57, Bangkok, Thailand

2017 Drawn Lines, Cho Why Gallery Bangkok, Thailand

2012 Constructing the City, INSTINC, Singapore

2011 The drawing project 2.0, M16 ARTSPACE Canberra, Australia

The drawing project, Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne, Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 "Loop Tube Em Movemento", MaisUno+1, Lisbon, Portugal

2024 "ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS", Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany

"Between pre-text and post-test: artist's book", Museo Nahim Isaías, Guayaquil, Ecuador

"Ways of Becoming: 25 years with UNIDEE", UNIDEE Residency Programs, Biella, Italy

2023 Turntables Project by Artlink, Switzerland

"Migrations and the Shifting", Borders Loosen Art, Online exhibition

2022 "Dark Was the Night We Found Light" 1PROJECTS in collaboration with INSTINC, at INSTINC, Singapore

"VIDEO ART INTERNATIONAL STREAMING FESTIVAL: #Post RE:SET@New Future", Goes:art, Vienna, Austria

"Migracje Wirtualnego", Muzeum Antropocenu, Online exhibition

"TRANSEUROPA 2022 Festival", Cooperativa Árvore Porto, Portugal

"Swim, swim, don’t sink" Sound piece for Cities and Memory

"Cycle 7’8. Fábrica Braço de Prata", Lisbon, Portugal Prospect Art, Los Angeles, United States

2021 "Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts" Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Illinois,

United States

"TSONAMI" Sound Art Festival, Online and various site Valparaíso, Chile

"Atlántica Vídeos" FOTONOVIEMBRE 2021, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain

"GRRL HAUS CINEMA" Best of 2021 Selection of short RISE, Berlin, Germany

"Room to Bloom" A platform for feminist art. https://roomtobloom.eu/

2020 "In-Sonora 11" Madrid, Spain

"La Brigade des Images" Paris, France

2019 "Solo Sans Solo" A.Farm, Saigon, Vietnam

2018 (In)significant, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore

2017 Bang Mot Canal international Art Project in Communities (BCiAPC), Curated by Jay Koh, Bangkok, Thailand

2016 "8th International Printmaking Douro Biennial 2016", Multiple sites Douro, Portugal

"OSTRALE'O16", Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst Dresden, Germany

2015 "2nd Global Print 2015", Espaço Miguel Torga Alijo, Portugal

"Video Arte nodoCSS 2015", Sala Mendoza Caracas, Venezuela

"Al Revelar (curated by Julia Villaseñor)", Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India

"And Still Rise (curated by Elizabeth Rogers)", Instituto Cervantes New Delhi, India

200 Top Expressions of Mexican Art Initiative and Catalogue, Mexico

2014 "3 sentences on the curatorial", 24 Jor Bagh New Delhi, India

"ArtPrize, VandenBerg (Calder)", Plaza Grand Rapids, United States

"Identity Control (curated by Julia Villaseñor)", Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India

2013 "Double Whammy", Platform 72, part of Art Month Sydney, Australia

"Art Not Apart Arts Festival", New Acton Precinct Canberra, Australia

"9th Biennale", A.I.R Gallery (curated by Alexandra Schwartz), New York City, United States

"File: Festival International de Linguagem Electrônica", SESI Gallery, S. Paulo, Brazil

"Festival prog:ME", Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"[R]-[R]-[F]", Festival Soundlab channel (curated by Melody Parker-Carter and Agricola de Cologne)

Prizes

2017 IPA -Invisible Photographer Asia- Mentorship Programme, Singapore

2014 Honourable Mention Bienal de las Fronteras. Tamaulipas, Mexico

2012 Shortlisted M16 Drawing Prize, M16 ARTSPACE Canberra, Australia

Shortlisted 10000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane, Australia

2008 Second prize recipient XVIII Ibiza Biennale 'Ibizagrafic, Ibiza, Spain

Biennial

2024 "I will Always Love You", Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, New York, United States

2022 "El Tropiezo", 19th Edition Tamayo Biennial, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico

2020 XIX Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo, Various sites, Mexico

2017 The Inaugural International Autonomous Biennale, @The Research Pavilion, 57 BIENNALE OF VENICE, Venice

2015 National Landscape Biennale, Museo Carrillo Gil Mexico City, Mexico

2014 National Landscape Biennale, MUSAS Museum Hermosillo, Mexico

Grants and Residencies

2023 ERROR residency programme, Mexico City, Mexico

2019 A.Farm Residency Collaborative program with Sàn Art, Nguyen Art Foundation and

MoT+++. Saigon, Vietnam

2018 Banff Artist in Residency BANFF CENTER FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY, Under the Jim

Dinning and EvelynMain Endowed Scholarship for Visual Artists, Canada

2017 THE DANCE OF ATTENTION, Residential Module, UNIDEE – Cittadellarte – Fondazione

Pistoletto, Biella, Italy

2015 Syah Ghar Foto Studio New Delhi, India

2012 INSTINC Singapore, Grant by National Fund for Culture & Arts, Mexico

Art Fair

2023 Bangkok Art Book Fair, Bangkok, Thailand

2015 India Art Fair, Vadehra Art Gallery New Delhi, India

2014 "Volvo Art Sessions", Live Painting Project, Affordable Art Fair, Singapore

Collections

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University Illinois, United States

Natalia Ludmila