Sabrina Merayo Núñez (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, 1980)

In her sculptures and installations Sabrina Merayo Núñez uses wood as a starting point. Throughout her artistic career, she investigated the artisanal processes by which said material is worked (joinery, carving, inlay) and the organic substances used historically for its conservation. A few years ago she began to be interested in the biological processes of trees, focusing on the way in which technology influences the relationship we have with nature.
Due to her interest in Bioart, in her latest projects she worked with the extraction of DNA from some tree species and its comparison with the human genetic code. Likewise, her installations involve mixed media that include samples of work developed in the laboratories, notes, records, drawings and sculptures.

Merayo Núñez trained in Visual Arts at the National University of the Arts and at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts. Likewise, she completed the Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts (UBA) and the Bachelor’s Degree in Expertise and Valuation of Works of Art (UMSA). In 2015 she was selected as a participant in the Annual Program for Artists Proyecto PAC of the Gachi Prieto Gallery.

She has participated in national and international exhibitions in numerous institutions such as: Museum of Fine Arts of Houston (Texas, United States); Euroamerica Gallery (New York, United States); Galleria Don Chisciotte (Rome, Italy); Gachi Prieto Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Perotti Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina), among others.

Regarding awards and competitions, she participated in the XX Klemm Prize for Visual Arts (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016); Itaú Cultural Award (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016); Williams Foundation Award for Young Art (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015); UADE National Visual Arts Competition (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015) and she received the Honorable Mention Andreani Arts Award (Buenos Aires, Argentina 2015).

In 2019 she was selected for Creative’s Latinex Artists in NYC program, and in 2018 her project Humans as trees was developed by the Coalesce Center for Biological Arts at the University at Buffalo, New York, United States. In 2017 she completed the Bioarte residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York, United States.