Mariana Pellejero (Buenos Aires, 1974).
She studied at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts with a specialization in engraving, and held clinics with Ernesto Ballesteros and Daniel Joglar. In 2003 she was part of ARTE RATA, who carry out unauthorized interventions in bathrooms of large cultural institutions.
In 2010 she moved to Mar del Plata and was part of the group of artists at Mundo Dios, a contemporary art space.
In 2011 he began his sound research and joined the VOLEY group along with other visual artists, making presentations at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, the Rosario Museum of Contemporary Art, PIEDRAS, Niceto lateral B…, while producing installations for specific places that develop in the visual and sound field.
In 2013 she participated as an artist representing the space
The Lower Floor at Eggo Art Fair, Recent Galleries.
Recoleta Cultural Center.
In 2014 she received a national production grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 2017 she held residencies at Nave Oporto Madrid, Galerie 21 Hamburg, and she was selected for the Festival Tsonami Arte Sonoro residency in Valparaíso, Chile.
In 2018 with FLAVIA (sound experimentation duo) they were winners of the Auditions at Atom cycle and presented their work at Escuchar Sonidos Visuales, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, obtaining the 3rd Prize at the National Hall of Visual Arts in the Engraving category. Casa del Bicentenario and receives a special mention from the jury Salón Félix Amador, Buenos Aires.
In 2019 she was selected to do residency at Kiosko Galería, Sta. Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
In 2020 she participates with Mundo Dios in the Rosario Contemporary Art MicroFair; and at arteBA Special Edition Artsy, invited by Ruth Benzacar and with Le Putit Galerie. She produces a podcast about Mar del Plata for PAN, Panorama de Audioexperimentacion Nacional at CASo Centro de arte sonoro, Buenos Aires. She participates in the group exhibition The Order and the Accident, Museo MAR, Mar del Plata and receives the Oxenford Scholarship.
In 2021 she participates in Besando Paredes at Galería Grasa; in Emergency and Nostalgia at the Sound Art Center; she is selected for the Itaú Visual Arts Prize; and she presents FLAVIA live A/V Cycle at Museo Mar, Mar del Plata.
In that last year she held an individual exhibition of her Yrigoyen at Galería Grasa, with text by Alejo Ponce de León, and with the publication of a book of the work; she participated with her individual exhibition Luz blanca with Galería Grasa at NN Galería, Feria Plateada, La Plata; and the collective exhibition Simbiologia, Artistic practices on a planet in emergency, CCK.
She lives and works in Mar del Plata.