ABOUT
Victoria Molina (Durango 1988) reuses everyday materials and objects to give them new meanings.
Industrial Design graduated (Magna Cum laude honors) and collage and mixed media artist, Molina enjoys working with different materials, ranging from magazines to food, as well as blurring the boundaries that exist between design and art.
Scholarship in 2013 by and Japan International Copperancy Agency to carry out an 8-month technical training in "Design and Traditional Japanese Arts" in Kyoto. She has exhibited her work at international fairs such as the Tokyo Design Week and the Lucca Art Fair in Italy, given conferences and workshops in New Zealand, Colombia, Brazil and Mexico.
It has several solo exhibitions, stands out “NÉCTAR 030” at the Museo del Alfeñique 2019 and more than a dozen group exhibitions
STUDIES
Industrial Design (Magna Cum Laude)
Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico 2006-2011
Technical Training “Modern Design and Traditional Techniques”
Kioto Kogei Senei Daigaku (KIT), Kioto, Japan 2013
Academic Exchange
Politécnico di Torino, Torino, Italy 2009
AWARDS
• "45 success stories" for the 45th anniversary of Universidad de Monterrey 2014
• Selected "Emerging Designers" Magazine Architectural Digest 2013 for its anniversary edition
• Finalist "Design Icons 2013" by Architectural Digest Magazine 2013
• "Best Students of the State of Nuevo León" by the H. Congreso de Nuevo León 2011
• "Magna Cum Laude Honors" Universidad de Monterrey 2011
• "Recognition of Leadership and Values" Universidad de Monterrey 2011
• "Distinguished Student" Universidad de Monterrey 2008, 2010
• Shortlisted “Lo imaginé, lo diseñé… Hagámoslo” National Stainless Steel Prize 2009
EXHIBITIONS
Exposiciones Individuales / Solo Exhibitions
2020 - "HASTA QUE DEJE DE SER COSTILLA" Instituto Tecnológico de Toluca, Metepec, State of Mexico
2019 - "INTROSPECTION AND OBJECTS OF MY DRAWERS" Villas del Campo, Calimaya, State of Mexico
2019 - "NECTAR 030" Museo del Alfeñique, Toluca, State of Mexico
2017 - "ESENCIA" Pedro Ávila Gallery, Metepec, Mexico
2006 - "MUJER DE PLATA" The Coffee Factory, Metepec, State of Mexico
Exposiciones Colectivas / Group Exhibitions
2020- "Vive México" Museo Zanbatha, Museo del Valle de La Luna, Mexico
2020- "Quetzales" Hotel Misión, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
2020- "Día mundial del Arte 2020" Asociación Internacional de Artes Plásticas (AIAP) for Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de México (ARTAC)
2020 - "Territorio Mexiquense, Radiography of Contemporary Art" Centro Cultural Toluca, Mexico
2019 - "Visuality: Gestures and Processes" Museo del Barro de Metepec, Mexico
2019 - “Building with Art a Helmet of Help” organized by the Mexican Chamber of the Construction Industry, Centro Cultural Toluca, Mexico
2019 - "No Andaba Muerto, Andaba en el Alfeñique" Museo del Alfeñique, Toluca, Mexico
2019 - “Miradas Femeninas” Regional Cultural Center of Valle de Bravo, Mexico
2018 - "Essays of Matter, the Work in Progress" Áurica Center for Art and Culture, Mexico
2018 - "Lucca Art Fair 2018", Lucca, Italy
2015 - "Expo-Venta Arte 2015" Museum of Modern Art of Toluca, Mexico
2013 - "Heterogeneus" Tokyo Designers Week, Tokyo, Japan.
CONFERENCES AND TALKS
“Food Design y Emociones”
Centro Cultural Riviera de Ensenada, Mexico, 2016
“4to Encuentro Latinoamericano de Food Design”
“Minería de datos aplicado a alimentos mexicanos”
Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud de Porto Alegre, Brasil, 2015
“3er Encuentro Latinoamericano de Food Design”
Design Week Speaker UDESIGN
Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico 2015
“Panorama del Food Design en México”
Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad de los Andes, Bogota Colombia 2014
“2do Encuentro Latinoamericano de Food Design”
“Maize Culture; Tortillas as a Material of Design”
Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, Nueva Zelanda 2014
Para el “International Food Design Conference & Studio”
“Empoderamiento de la Mujer en la Sociedad del Conocimiento”
Instituto Tecnológico de Toluca, Metepec 2012
“Día Internacional de la Mujer”