Mariana Medrano is an architect, artist, and researcher from Mexicali, Mexico. She holds a Bachelor’s of Arts from Princeton University and Master’s in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work has been shown at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, MIT’s Wiesner Gallery, Darb 1718 Space for Contemporary Art, Casa La Linea, Centro de Cultura Digital de México, and at the Museo Instituto de Geología de la UNAM.
Medrano’s practice is primarily invested in exploring the narratives and forms that bind the modern histories of postcolonial nations. This approach can be labeled as translocal material research, where specificity and locality are favored over the general or global.