Micaela Piñero
Province of Buenos Aires, 1990.

She lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. She is a Professor and Bachelor of Visual Arts from UNLP (National University of La Plata); Master of Visual Arts and Education from the University of Barcelona. In 2001, she began her training in painting with Vasily Tretiakov, in 2015 in jewelry with Héctor Ruíz and Juan Carlos Pallarols; she participated in art clinics with Leila Tschopp, Pablo Siquier, Juliana Iriart, and Alejandra Aguado. Her project “Take Me to See the Ocean” was selected in the individual projects call of the Young Art Biennial of Buenos Aires 2019, CCRecoleta. She was a scholarship recipient in 2017 at the Center for Artistic Research; received a mobility grant from the Ministry of Culture of the Nation in 2019; and won the Radar Literature Prize in 2017 and 2018.
She has participated in collective exhibitions and poetry readings in Argentina, Spain, Chile, the United States, Mexico, and Germany. She founded the poetry collective Las Pibas, where she published as an author and editor of fanzines and booklets between 2011 and 2018. Her poems have been published and translated in various compilations for Argentina, the United States, Spain, and Mexico. She published the poetry book “University of Violence” in 2018, by Mansalva Publishing. In 2019, she had her first solo exhibition titled “I Spent All These Years Building a Shelter,” curated by Jimena Ferreiro. She participated in the art fairs arteBA 2019, Utopia sector, and had a solo show at Swab art fair, Barcelona. She is currently participating in the Artists Program at Torcuato Di Tella University.