About me
Vanessa Olachea González
Tijuana, B.C. 1994.
Studies / Education
Fine Arts, UABC (Autonomous University of Baja California) campus Tijuana, 2012-2017.
Student Exchange USAC (University of San Carlos de Guatemala), Escuela Superior de Arte, 2015-2 to 2016-1.
Studying fine arts to me was an excuse to learn new things. In the process I came across with different mediums and techniques that in the beginning were completely unknown for me.
To choose and define themes to make art has been an introspective process for me, identifying experiences from my daily life and precise stages of my life. Little by little the purpose has been to take all of those experiences and put them a name and to trying to find a reason of their being. Part of my process includes apart from my personal experiences, the interest for words.
While I studied fine arts, the themes and topics that I worked with several times were the migrants, my grandparents and the psychosomatic illnesses. Now I'm an artist that works with different mediums and themes related to nostalgia, memory and portrait (sometimes figuratively and sometimes in an abstract way).
In most of my work intervenes text or words next to images, or it also serves me as an incentive or as a background in my creative process. My artworks are in many ways, a search to understand and to process with the help of language, my own experiences. Sometimes they begin with an action or develop into an exploration for visual poetry. Besides from visual arts, I also write and sing.
CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Borderlands 2014, Presentation of artwork about the topic of migration during the program of
Borderlands by Compañerismo Estudiantil / Intervarsity, Tijuana.
2012 Festival Liberarte, Exhibition and sale of handmade arts and crafts, Tijuana.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Clínica de producción IV Projects of bidimensional and tridimensional experimentation,
Sala de Arte Álvaro Blancarte (SAAB), Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC),
campus Tijuana.
Transfiguraciones Exhibition of art students from 6th semester of Escuela Superior de Arte,
USAC, Guatemala.
2015 Punto de inflexión Exhibition of students of conceptual drawing class from Faculty of Arts
UABC Tijuana, El Cuarto de Luz, Tijuana.
2014 Evocación Reactiva Interactive art show, Galería Nodo y Praxis, Tijuana.
Los procesos y conceptos en la imagen Colective photography exhibition Universidad
Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Facultad de Artes, Tijuana.
FusiónArte 2014 6ta. edición, Colectivo 252, Tijuana.
2013 Tijuana Art Walk, Colectivo 232, Pasaje Gómez, Tijuana.
Noche de Arte y Cultura Arquitectura Moral 7, Artes Plásticas Colectivo 232, Tijuana.
2012 Expresarte Compañerismo Estudiantil A.C., Tecate.
2011 Exposición del taller de pintura, Galería Picasso, Tijuana.
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Publication of poem and video-poem on online magazine Leer es mirarse para
adentro, Editorial Amarcafé, Ciudad de México.
Text of analysis of the artwork from the exhibition Fotógrafos ambulantes de Tijuana by
Mariel Miranda for the official page of exhibitions of Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT),
Tijuana.
2016 Text of analysis of the artwork from the exhibition Dibujos en el tiempo by Estela Hussong
for the official page of exhibitions of Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana.
COLLABORATIONS
2021 Collaboration with Jesús J. Moreno for musical video-poem, with the poem "Tener que" for
Intervalos Versados.
Art, design and illustration for the EP cover by Jesús J. Moreno, "Lugares" (Coming soon).
Photography, creative/art direction for official music video “Tiempo y estación” by Melissa
Olachea (Coming soon).
2020 Collaboration capturing images for the official music video“Mestizo corazón” by
Santiago Benavides.
2018 Art, design and illustration for the EP cover by Melissa Olachea,“Bugambilias”.
Background vocals and harmonies on the EP by Melissa Olachea, “Bugambilias”.
2017 Collaboration on the musical composition by Roge Morales for the song“Vendaval”.
2016 Background vocals and harmonies on the concert of the tour Matyox K’aslem by Sara
Curruchich, Teatro IGA y Teatro de Cámara Hugo Carrillo, Guatemala.
Collaboration with Fundación YAXS on the making of book-object for the exhibition
Güiri Güiri, Sol Del Río, Guatemala.
Collaboration on the works of art/cultural management and assembly for the exhibition
by Prensa Comunitaria, Guatemala en movimiento(s), Casa YAXS, Guatemala.
Collaboration with Fundación YAXS on the area of independent projects of the Festival
Cultural Paseo de la Sexta, Guatemala.
Intervention on public space, Proyecto 44, Guatemala.
Harmonies with Ketzali Awalb’iitz Pérez for the video “Tú” recorded by Sergio Mita.
2015 Art, design and illustration album cover by Melissa Olachea,“Sinopsis”.
2014 Collaboration on the works of reception, register, museography and assembly for the
exhibitions of Tópicos 14, Fosfluorescencia by Roberto Pacheco Eternamente
joven de espíritu, Sala de Arte Álvaro Blancarte (SAAB) and the exhibition of the students
from the fine art class of teacher/artist Francisco Chávez Corrujedo, lobby of the
Teatro Universitario Rubén Vizcaíno Valencia, Universidad Autónoma de Baja
California (UABC), campus Tijuana.
COMPLEMENTARY TRAINING
2016 - 2017 Internship on the Programa de Investigación y Divulgación del
Patrimonio Cultural y Artístico CECUT, agosto- abril, Tijuana.
2016 Internship on Fundación YAXS, marzo-julio, Guatemala.
2011 - 2012 Drawing and painting classes at Galería Picasso, Tijuana.