Madeline Jiménez

Madeline Jiménez (Santo Domingo, 1986) lives and works between Mexico City and Santo Domingo. Through her practice, she imagines the transformations that both objects and the conventions of art should undergo when they are traversed by a body with another history. By recoding representation and its territory through three-dimensional machinic drawings and spatial systems, she creates a language that endows the object with multiple qualities, seeking to slow the process of the object’s instrumentalization. Her work pursues the construction of an object in permanent flight—one in constant motion.

Collectively, Jiménez has developed the artistic and pedagogical project Semillero Caribe in Mexico City since 2016, where she continues to build strategies of critique and exchange aimed at tracing the traces of colonialism within contemporary practices and generating possible alternative choreographies.

She studied Fine Arts at the Altos de Chavón School of Design, affiliated with Parsons The New School for Design in New York, as well as at the National School of Plastic Arts of UNAM and at the SOMA Educational Program.

Her work has been exhibited at Pivô in São Paulo, KADIST in San Francisco, Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger in Switzerland, Museo Tamayo in Mexico, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama (MAC Panamá), and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

In 2022 she received the Creative Capital Award in New York. In 2024 she was one of the invited artists to participate in Flow States: The 2024 Triennial of El Museo del Barrio in the same city, and in 2025 she received the CIFO Emerging Artist Award from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation.