Angella Holguin was born in Mexico City in 1981. After graduating and working as a Bachelor of International Commerce, she enters the world of plastic arts with various workshops and studies; some of them in figure sculpture at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France. In 2017 she achieves a Master in Fine Art Sculpture at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, California. In her continuous search of different media and techniques she obtains a Degree in Ceramics at the Instituto de Artes y Oficios de Querétaro, Querétaro.
Her work has been exhibited in Mexico and abroad, in individual as well as collective exhibitions: Origen y Fuego (Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, 2015), Sublimación (MUCAL, 2016), Eukarya (Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, 2017), Encuentros (Galería Libertad, 2019), Viaje del Alma (Ida Médicis Galerie, Paris, Francia, 2019), Gestación Etérea (Galería Libertad, 2022). Salón de la Plástica Contemporánea Queretana, (Galería Libertad, 2016), Living Organisms, (Festival Art with Me, GNP, 2018), Escultura de Valores (Centro Educativo y Cultural del Estado de Querétaro Manuel Gómez Morin, 2018), Plástica Contemporánea de Querétaro (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro, 2019), Gynes, Cartografía de la Estética Femenina Querétaro Siglo XXl (Museo de Arte de Querétaro, 2020), Instinct, (Art-Scène Gallery former Ida Médicis Galerie, Paris, France 2021), Autour du Végétal (Art-Scène Gallery former Ida Médicis Galerie, Paris, France 2022), Works (Art-Scène Gallery former Ida Médicis Galerie, Paris, France 2023), Artistas Queretanos (Club de Industriales, Ciudad de México, 2023), El paisaje es Presente del Pasado (Terreno Baldío, Ciudad de México, 2023), Luz de Centro (Galería de Casa Frissac, Tlalpan, México, 2023), Hydros Philia (Centro de las Artes de Querétaro, 2023).
In 2017 she received her first public comission from the state government of Querétaro to create a sculpture as legacy for the city, which she named Responsum. In 2020-2021 she built In Vino Veritas, a monumental steel and quarry sculpture, commissioned by the state goverment of Querétaro and the Querétaro Wine Growing Association. In 2022, the New York design firm BHDM contacted her for the creation of a sculpture named Ulva for the entrance at the Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco California. In 2023 she elaborated a monumental sculpture named El Buey for the annual festivities in honor of La Virgen del Pueblito, for El Pueblito, a Querétaro municipality in México. Art-Scène Gallery (former Ida Médicis Galerie) is her current representative in France where she had her individual exhibition Viaje del Alma in 2019, and later collective exhibitions in 2021, 2022, and 2023.a
I am a woman who finds in sculpture the healing, regenerative and loving power of art. In my creative process I let myself be guided by the purifying quality of fire, my ties to the earth and femininity, as well as by the eternal struggle of the soul to find its freedom.
My work focuses on life, its cycles and that constant transformation that drives us from the physical to the spiritual.
My main materials are steel and stainless steel, which due to their rigidity pose a challenge: cutting, bending, welding and polishing; giving life to pieces that come from my inner garden, organic shapes that emerge from the depths without the slightest intention of assuming an outcome; Also, and in this constant search to explore other languages, I have worked with wood, stones, resins, leather, acrylic, ceramics, glass, bronze, brass, copper, silver and textiles, enriching my body of work in this attempt to perpetuate life and its diversity of forms.
2019 Degree in Ceramics, Instituto de Artes y Oficios de Querétaro, Querétaro.
2017 MFA Sculpture, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California.
2012-2013 Apprentice, Workshop Rogelio Madero & David Madero Sculptors.
2011 Sculpture, Art Academy of San Diego, California.
2010 Figure Sculpture, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
2009 Figure Sculpture, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
2008 Drawing, Instituto Coahuilense de Cultura.
2008 Painting Techniques, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico.
2004 Degree on International Commerce, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico.
2022 “Gestación Etérea” Galería Libertad, Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
2019 “Encuentros”, Galería Libertad, Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
2019 “Viaje del alma”, Ida Médicis Gallery, Paris, France.
2017 “Eukarya”, Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
2016 “Sublimación”, MUCAL, Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
2015 “Origen y Fuego”, Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
2015 “Origen y Fuego”, Fundación Carol Rolland, Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
2023 “El paisaje es presente del pasado”, Terreno Baldío Arte Galería, GAMA Week, Ciudad de México.
2023 “Luz de Centro” Galería de Casa Frissac, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México.
2023 “Arte con impacto social y ambiental”, Orbita Coworks, Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
2023 “Hydros Philia, formas del agua en la cerámica contemporánea”, Centro de las Artes de Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
2023 “Artistas Queretanos”, Club de Industriales, Ciudad de México.
2023 “Works” Ida Médicis Gallery, Paris, France.
2022 “Autour du Végétal” Ida Médicis Galerie, Paris, France.
2022 “Emerging women artists” Calderony Gallery, Fábrica la Aurora, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
2021 “Degustando el Arte”, Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico.
2021 “Instinct”, Ida Médicis Gallery, Paris. France.
2020 “Gynes Cartografía de la Estética Femenina. Querétaro siglo XXl” Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Qro, México.
2019 “Colectiva”, Instituto de Artes y Oficios de Querétaro, Querértaro, México.
2019 “Plástica Contemporánea Queretana”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico.
2018 “Escultura de Valores” Centro Educativo y Cultural Manuel Gómez Morin, Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico.
2018 “Living Organisms”, Art With Me GNP, Sanará, Tulum, Quintana Roo, México.
2016 “Segunda Etapa” Salón De La Plástica Contemporánea Queretana, Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
2010 “Expo Colectiva Pintura”, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
2022-2023 Municipio de Corregidora, Querétaro, Querétaro. Steel Public Art Sculpture “El Buey”.
2022 BHDM Design, Ny New York, Stainless Steel Public Art Sculpture “Ulva”.
2020 State Government of Querétaro, “In Vino Veritas”, Public Steel Sculpture.
2017 State Government of Querétaro, “Responsum”, Steel Sculpture.
José Manuel Velasco, Alumbramientos, Escultura de Angella Holguin, Gestación Etérea. April, 2022.
Ana Clara Muro, Escultura de Angella Holguin, Encuentros, April, 2019.
Sophie Béguerie, Les sculpures d’Angella Holguin exposées à Paris, Le Figaro, March, 2019.
Stéphanie Pioda, Angella Holguin – Viaje del Alma, Beaux Arts Magazine, March, 2019.
Dorothy O’Donnell, “Sculptor’s public art piece inaugurated in Mexico” Academy Art U News, May 2018.
Yolanda Segura, Eukarya, Escultura de Angella Holguin, Eukarya, June, 2017.
Marja Godoy, Eukarya, Escultura de Angela Holguin, Eukarya, June, 2017
Horacio Warpola, Rastreando el Origen, Escultura de Angella Holguin Origen y Fuego, July, 2015.
Emmanuel Vizcaya, El Jardín Mineral, Escultura de Angella Holguin Origen y Fuego, July, 2015.
Antonio Castañeda Ortiz, Origen y Fuego de Angella Holguin, Escultura de Angella Holguin Origen y Fuego, July, 2015.