For as long as I can remember, I knew I was an artist.

At 8, my father gave me a drawing book of the human figure. At 13, he passed away. It was at my grandmother's house where I found a wooden box of oils, charcoals and pastels a gift that would define my path.

At 17, I was rejected from the Armando Reverón School of Arts in Venezuela. I kept painting in silence.

Life took me through other roads a different career, motherhood. Art waited.

When I returned, in the middle of the 2020 pandemic, I returned with everything. And when I faced the hardest loss of my life in 2022–2023, painting became the only territory no one could take from me. That is where Mimo Face was born.

I am a self-taught Venezuelan visual artist, based in Mexico City for over a decade. My practice is built from daily studio work and direct observation of international collections the Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2024), the Nationalmuseet (Copenhagen, 2024), the Museo Botero and Museo del Oro (Bogotá, 2026).

My main series, Mimo Face, is a visual investigation into feminine identity what women carry, sustain, and conceal. Each piece is a palimpsest: layers of time, matter and emotion on 300g cotton paper.

These are not portraits. They are icons of texture.

Available for original artwork acquisition, gallery exhibitions, murals and collaborations.

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