(SPAIN | MEXICO 1965), has lived in Mexico since 1974. She studied Visual Arts, History and Photography in Mexico, Spain, Austria and the United States. Since 1983 she has had numerous solo exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. Member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores FONCA 2008-2011. Published two photobooks: Álbum, by Mestizo, Spain, 2000; and Kinderwunsch, by La Fábrica, 2013, winner of the Best Art Book Award by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Culture and Sport in 2014. Álbum was presented as a solo exhibition at Centro de la Imagen, Mexico, in 2001-2002, at Casa de América, PHotoEspaña festival 2002, and at several other international venues. Kinderwunsch opened at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, PHotoEspaña festival 2015, and was later presented at FOTOHOF, Salzbug, Austria, 2016, at the Museo Regional de Querétaro, Mexico, 2017 and at the Museo de la Ciudad de México, 2019. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions and publications, including HOMETRUTHS, book and exhibition curated by Susan Bright, presented at Photographers Gallery, London, UK, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 2015, Belfast Exposed, festival in Ireland, 2015. Since 1990 she has been organising activities on photography, educational programmes, meetings, festivals, etc. She was assistant to Manuel Álvarez Bravo in 1986.
She has worked at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid - from 1989 to 1993 -, in 1994 she founded the Education area of Centro de la Imagen, where she worked until 1998, from 2000 to 2006 she was the coordinator of program Foto Guanajuato, program of studies and festival organised by the Instituto de Cultura de Guanajuato and Centro de la Imagen, from 2007 to 2015 she coordinates the Seminario de Fotografía Contemporánea of Centro de la Imagen with the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín. She gives workshops and lectures in different places around the world.
In 2012 she founded Hydra + Fotografía with Gabriela González Reyes and Gerardo Montiel Klint- As co-curator with Gisela Volá she realised "Borrador de un cuerpo intervenido" Arte x Arte, Buenos Aires Argentina, 2017, Hydra x FOAM, Netherlands 2017, among many others. She is co-organiser of the Photobook Fair and the Latin American Photobook Award 2017 at the Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos in the framework of the Latin American Photography Colloquium. She is a jury member for various competitions and grants such as Sistema Nacional de Creadores y Jóvenes Creadores, FONCA, 6x6 Global Talent World Press Photo, Photo Vogue, among many others. In 2016 she created INCUBADORA DE FOTOLIBROS, a program where authors develop their photobooks with the advice of national and foreign editors and designers. In 2018 she founded INFRAMUNDO, a publishing project of Hydra, with José Luis Lugo and Ramón Pez, which in 2018 published 24 photobooks and presented them at international fairs.