Ana Lorena Núñez

Born in 1971 in Guatemala, Ana Lorena Núñez works in Guatemala City and is a visual artist whose work explores memory, the female body, and the internal processes that shape women’s lived experiences. She combines photography, drawing, collage, digital techniques, and manual processes such as embroidery and assemblage, creating a visual language where the intimate and the symbolic converge. For eighteen years she has worked with the same model, whom she began photographing at the age of four; her presence functions as a living archive that embodies transformation, growth, and multiple female narratives. Her most recent exhibitions include a three-month artistic residency in London (2025), culminating in the presentation of her series Life in a Bottle – Soda Pop 25 at the Karma Sanctum Soho Hotel, and her exhibition Interpretaciones at the Museo Nacional de Arte de Guatemala, MUNAG (2024). She has participated in group exhibitions in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, the United States, England, France, and Argentina. In 2022 she received the Manuel Belgrano Award at the V International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Argentina, a recognition instituted for the first time to honour the most outstanding work of the biennial. She has also taken part in projects such as SUMARTE at Museo MARTE (El Salvador) and the Arte en las Calles 2025 initiative in Guatemala. Her work is held in private collections in Guatemala, the United States, Costa Rica, England, and Equatorial Guinea, as well as in institutional collections including Banco G&T Continental (Guatemala), Museo UNIS Rozas-Botrán (Guatemala), and the Benetton Collection – Imago Mundi (Italy). Núñez work has been published in Ventanas del Tiempo (2019–2022), International Contemporary Artists Vol. IV (2012), and Memory and Timeless Avant-Garde (Benetton Collection, 2016). Núñez’s practice seeks to make visible silent narratives and to reveal female identity as a process in continuous transformation.