Mariana Noreña is a multidisciplinary artist from Bogotá, Colombia. Her work is inspired by intimate moments with nature and how her mind and body react to the landscape she inhabits. It’s a diary of emotions, thoughts, personal connections and her own here and now. The gestures of the landscape and the superimposition of her own compose abstract pieces made with mostly natural materials.

She graduated from la Universidad de Los Andes, from where she holds two degrees, one in Design and another in Fine Arts with emphasis in painting and drawing, in connection to which she received a meritorious distinction on her thesis project. She is currently an MFA candidate in the Fiber and Material Studies department at the School of Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Colombia such as “La Feria del Millon” and “Panorama,” among others. Her work was recently part of the Museo Bolivariano of Contemporary Art collection and she was part of the finalists’ exhibition for Luminarts Cultural Foundation in Chicago.