FABIOLA MENCHELLI
Mexico City, Mexico 1983
Lives and works in Mexico City
Fabiola Menchelli experiments with essential ideas about photography from a wide variety of contemporary strategies and experimental techniques. Her work seeks to expand ways of looking through photography, it’s (his)tories and processes, and our own gravitation of reality.
She studied the Master of Visual Arts at Massachusetts College of Art and the Bachelor of Arts at Victoria University. Her most recent exhibitions include Parallax Helio, Marshall Gallery (Santa Monica, CA, 2025), certain silence, Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, FL, 2024), we are not what we have seen, curated by Laura Orozco, Angstroms / Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City, 2024), Dark Moves: Fabiola Menchelli & Heather Watkings, curated by Stephanie Snyder, Cooley Gallery (Portland, OR, 2022), I carry all the names I’m given, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City, 2022), Parallax (New York, 2021), and Under the Blue Sun, Marshall Contemporary (Los Angeles, 2021). She has participated in collective exhibitions in Jinan, Venice, Houston, CDMX, London, Paris, Bogotá, and Dubai, among others.
Menchelli has been invited to participate in different artistic residencies such as Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Casa Wabi and Casa Nano. She received the Fulbright-García Robles (2011-2013), grant Massart Dean’s Award (2012-2013), the Acquisition Award of the XVI Photography Biennial of the Center for Image (2014) and the National System of Art Creators of FONCA. Her most recent book published is titled Desdoble, Fabiola Menchelli & Andrea Chapela, ESPAC México (2022). Her work is part of the Norton Museum of Art, Perez Museum, JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, the Eskenazi Museum of Art Collection, Centro de la Imagen, Ralph Lauren Collection, Don Julio Collection, Zarur Collection, among others.
She has been a visiting artist in both Mexico and U.S. institutions. She is the founder and director of Circulo de Critica de Obra, an alternative art education program.
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