b.1980 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.
Educations
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
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
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, 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, US
2021 "Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts" Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern
University, US
"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
XIX Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo, Various sites, Mexico
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
The Inaugural International Autonomous Biennale, @The Research Pavilion, 57 BIENNALE
OF VENICE, Venice
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
National Landscape Biennale, Museo Carrillo Gil Mexico City, Mexico
And Still Rise (curated by Elizabeth Rogers), Instituto Cervantes New Delhi, India
200 Top Expressions of Mexican Art Initiative and Catalogue, Mexico
India Art Fair, Vadehra Art Gallery New Delhi, India
2014 Volvo Art Sessions, Live Painting Project, AAF, Singapore
National Landscape Biennale, MUSAS Museum Hermosillo, Mexico
3 sentences on the curatorial, 24 Jor Bagh New Delhi, India
ArtPrize, VandenBerg (Calder) Plaza Grand Rapids, US
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, US
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 Bienal de las Fronteras. Tamaulipas, Mexico (Honourable Mention)
2012 Shortlisted M16 Drawing Prize, M16 ARTSPACE Canberra, Australia
Shortlisted 10000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane, Australia
2008 XVIII Ibiza Biennale 'Ibizagrafic, Ibiza, Spain (Second prize recipient)
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
Collections
- Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University Illinois, US
Natalia Ludmila
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