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M: majevalenz@gmail.com

IG: @majevalenz  

T: +56 9 9829 8089

Maria Valenzuela holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture from the University of Chile (2010). She studied photography at the Pontifical Catholic University, Chile (2003) and the International Center of Photography in New York, USA (2004). Her artistic practice has spanned video art, performance, and projects merging audiovisual work with oral heritage in Chile and Spain. She later pursued studies in Visual Anthropology at the University of Barcelona (2013) and earned a Master’s in Documentary Creation from Pompeu Fabra University, Spain (2016).

After seven years of artistic work in Spain, she returned to Chile, introducing a unique hand embroidery technique on diverse surfaces. Her work, exhibited nationally and internationally, explores the interplay between drawing and spatial forms, engaging with landscapes through video, photography, and textile interventions. She develops organic structures inspired by textile traditions, balancing order and chaos—where geometric rhythms evoke choreographed movement—expanding drawing into spatial dimensions and offering a reflection on nature.

Her work is part of private collections in Chile and in medical institutions such as the Arturo López Pérez Cancer Foundation in Santiago, Chile. It is also included in public collections, such as the Visual Arts Collection of the Government of Chile at the National Center for Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile.