About

Yazmín Hidalgo Güemez

Mexico, 1985

Visual artist based in Mexico City, she is interested in nature and landscape, using paper and bookbinding as mediums for her work. She explores the diverse materials, formats, and engineering possibilities of the book medium to construct her pieces. Her primary media are printmaking and drawing. Alongside her artistic practice, since 2010 she has co-directed HagoLibros, a studio focused on the editing and production of books on art, design, and architecture.

She received a grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts Young Creators program (2020-2019). In 2019, she participated in the 8th visual arts diploma program at CaSa, Oaxaca. In 2018, she completed a residency at the Banff Centre in the program The Evolving Book: Contemporary Artist Book Practices, with a grant from CIBC Emerging Artists; the same year she received support from PECDA Morelos as an Emerging Creator. In 2013, she received support from FONCA, through its Artistic Residencies program, for a residency at the San Francisco Center for the Book, USA. She has received various awards for her work: Acquisition Prize at the UNAM Visual Arts Biennial and 3rd place at Arte Lumen, 2016; First place at Huellas Gráficas, Colombia 2009; Honorable Mention at the XLV Annual Watercolor Competition, MNA, 2005. She has had five solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions both in Mexico and abroad. Her most recent exhibition is an installation project, proposed for the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts. Her work is part of the Stanford University Artist Book Collection, the Otto G. Richter Library Special Collections at the University of Miami, the National Library of Mexico, UNAM, Alumnos 47, and Lumen Art Collection.