Bio

OTHIANA ROFFIEL

Mexico City, 1990
Lives and works in Mexico City

Othiana Roffiel's work is characterized by a relentless zeal for exploration, as well as the evolutionary quality that this entails; thus her painting mutates alongside her reflections on the universes that surround and contain her, as well as her pictorial inquiries, stimulating unique ways of approaching her creative processes, which generally appeal to imagination and memory, and where the fluidity of human corporeality plays a crucial role. This has led to the consolidation of a distinctive and highly inventive language, which oscillates between abstract and more figurative elements, fostering curiosity in the presence of her works.

Roffiel has received numerous awards and honors. In 2024, she completed an artist residency at Fundación Casa Wabi (Puerto Escondido). She was also granted, in 2023 and 2019, a SACPC Jovenes Creadores scholarship, a production fellowship awarded by the Mexican government. In 2020, she was selected to partake in the XIX Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo, which was exhibited at several institutions across the country, including the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City. In 2012, she graduated summa cum laude from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, where she was recognized with the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in Painting.

Throughout her career, her work has been featured in various exhibitions and art fairs, including El cuarto de los ojos sucios at Museo Raúl Anguiano (Guadalajara, 2025), Arte en Movimiento Jóvenes Creadores at Complejo Cultural los Pinos (Mexico City, 2024), Dreams Matter at Galería Karen Huber (Mexico City, 2024), ARCOMadrid (2024) and Zona Maco (Mexico City, 2025, 2024, 2023). In 2023, she presented her solo exhibition Rehearsal of Becoming at Galería Karen Huber (Mexico City) and participated in group showsat Matt Gallery (Paris) and Expo Chicago. In 2021, she has a solo show, It Takes a Lot of Stuff for a Flower to Grow, at Karen Huber, curated by Laura Orozco, and exhibited collectively at Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima (San Pedro Garza García). In 2020, her work was shown at Museo de la Ciudad de México (Mexico City), and in 2019, she presented her solo exhibition La persistente insistencia del juego at Casa Equis (Mexico City), curated by Leslie Moody Castro.

Although Roffiel’s current focus is painting, there was a period in her career, at its peak in 2016, when she ventured into art writing, contributing art criticism in specialized contemporary art magazines such as ARTPULSE (USA) and Artishock (Chile), where she has commented on the the work of numerous artists including Alfredo Jaar, Jill Magid, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Allora & Calzadilla, and Mario García Torres. She has also reviewed programs and exhibitions such as Art Basel 2016, Proyecto Changarrito and Under the Same Sun: Art From Latin America Today at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In 2021, one of her essays was published in the book ABCDESPAC, a project by Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (ESPAC), a Mexico City based non-profit.