Valentina Attolini (B. 1998, Mexico City) paints and draws as a way to engage physically with the world—her work is an embodied method of feeling, thinking, and shaping experience.
Attolini’s work embraces moments of intensity and instability as key sites of rupture, where existing patterns break. Gesture allows contradiction to coexist and emotional tensions to take form. Her work is an open, charged field where meaning is fluid, experience is lived, and the act of making itself becomes a space where change unfolds.
Upcoming:
TEARS' Final Show – TKE Studios, Margate.
27th June 2026.
2019- 2023, BA Fine Arts, Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado: La Esmeralda, Mexico City, MX.
2025-2026, Tracey Emin Artist Residency, TKE Studios, Margate, UK.
2024, Espacio Unión, Sonámbulos, los párpados lloran, Mexico City, MX.
2023, RAM, Es un lugar que no existe, Mexico City, MX.
Group Exhibitions
2025, Incubator, Notes from the Studio, London, UK
2025, Darbyshire, Tracey Emin Artist Residency, London, UK
2025, Carrillo Gil Museum, Manual Intuitivo, Mexico City, MX.
2025, Cam Galería, Háptica, Mexico City, MX.
2025, Pablo´s Birthday, Rent-free Project, New York, USA.
2024 Soda, POEMAA , Mexico City, MX
2024 Tracey Emin Foundation, TEAR 25/26 , Tracey Emin Foundation , Online Exhibition
2024 Laguna, Fuera de Lugar, Laguna, Mexico City, MX
2023 Arroniz, Contra la nostalgia: las pulgas, Mexico City, MX
2021 Arte Abierto, Furia y Poesía, Arte Abierto, Mexico City, MX
2020 Centro de la Imagen, Creación en movimiento, Mexico City, MX.
2019 Espacio Unión, Se nos hizo tarde, Mexico City, MX.
Selections
2024, Tracey Emin Artist Residency, Margate, UK.
2024, Salon Acme N.12, Selected Artist, Mexico City, MX
2024, Jóvenes Creadores Grant, Sistema Nacional de Apoyo para la Cultura y las Artes (SACPC), MX.
2024, Solos Art Residency, Mexico City, MX.
2019, Jóvenes Creadores Grant, Sistema Nacional de Apoyo para la Cultura y las Artes (SACPC), MX.