Guadalupe Ayala
Bio
Guadalupe Ayala (Buenos Aires, 1976) is a visual artist, educator, and political scientist. She has lived and worked in Montevideo since 2006.
She holds a degree and postgraduate diploma in Political Science (UBA; UDELAR) and is a certified teacher of Sculpture and Drawing (Regina Pacis; Centro Polivalente de Arte de San Isidro). She trained with Héctor Maranesi and Verónica Cordeiro, and participated in critique sessions with Joanna Warsza, Marina de Caro, and Rodrigo Alonso, among others.
She has been exhibiting since 2001 in Uruguay and internationally. She participated in the 5th Montevideo International Biennial (2023) and received the National Grand Prize for Visual Arts Gladys Afamado (2022), the FEFCA grant (2016), and the Düsseldorf Residency Grant (2007), among other distinctions. In 2024, she served on the jury of the 61st National Visual Arts Award Clever Lara and created the statuette for the Laetitia ESTE ARTE Prize awarded to Ama Amoedo.
Statement
Her work explores the relationship between human beings and nature, the self, and social constructs, using industrial and domestic materials in sculptures and installations that bring together the beautiful and the ruinous, the intimate and the monumental. Her practice, both autobiographical and historical in nature, reflects on history, power, and spirituality, examining tensions between elements and concepts to reveal new meanings.
