Carmen Mariscal
Artist, Researcher & Theatre Set Designer
Carmen Mariscal is a Mexican artist, researcher and theatre set designer, and is currently a practice-based doctoral candidate at the Royal College of Art, London. She holds a master’s degree in art from the Winchester School of Art, studied at the graduate diploma programme Advanced Painting, Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London, and earned her bachelor’s degree in art history from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
Her cross-disciplinary practice explores traces of memory in dwellings. These include the body, which is humans´ first habitat, followed by their clothes, homes, public spaces, and cities. Her recent research also investigates entropy and ruin in Mexican architecture. These themes are expressed through photography, sculpture, sound, moving image, theatre set design, and installation.
Mariscal´s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Mexico, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Malaysia and other countries in public spaces and private art galleries.
Carmen Mariscal’s projects have been selected for the 4th Monterrey Biennale, the 18th National Contest for Young Artists, the 4th National Installation Contest in Mexico, where she received the First Prize and the Art Tech Media Contest at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. She won the First Prize at the International Children´s Art Contest organised by The United Nations.
Carmen Mariscal is the creator of the Installation El pueblo creador for the Mexican Pavilion, Expo Hannover 2000. Her public sculpture Chez Nous was shown at the Place du Palais-Royal, Paris, from March to June 2020.
Mariscal is also the author of the book Nicolás Mariscal, the architect as an art theorist. She taught art history at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and was studio art professor for eleven years at Trinity College University, Connecticut, USA (Paris Campus).
