Angélica Chio

Angélica Chio has lived and worked alternately in Berlin and Mexico City. She currently resides in Mexico City, where she was born in 1966. She studied Visual Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City, and pursued postgraduate studies in Art in Context at the University of the Arts Berlin. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, video festivals, and national and international cooperative projects. She has been a recipient of grants from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, Mexico, and in 2023 she received a grant for artists over 45 years old from the Kunststiftung K52 (Art Foundation K52) in Germany.

Investigating language and its possibilities of translation and transference, as well as proposing new alliances between word and image, constitute the compass and guiding thread of her artistic research. Rather than exploring a medium of expression, she focuses on concepts around an event and approaches it from different perspectives and strategies, creating independent and interconnected works, primarily drawings, objects, artist books, videos, and installations.