exhibitions
2024 Foam Talent 2024-25, Foam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Creatura, Universal, Montevideo, Uruguay Come nessun uomo saprà mai curated by Steve Bisson, Lab27, Treviso, Italy
2023 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK (traveling exhibition) Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Sharjah, UAE Encontros da Imagem International, Braga, Portugal
Conceptual Projects, On View 02: Marisol Mendez, (online exhibition) Revista Balam & Valerie Factory, ‘Novias’, Barrakesh, Buenos Aires, Argentina OJO MX, QiPO Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico RPS International Photography Exhibition 164, The Royal Photographic Society House, Bristol, UK
2022 BJP’s Female in Focus, Photofusion, London, UK PhotoVogue Festival (screening), Base Milano, Milan, Italy BJP’s Portrait of Humanity, Indian Photo Festival, State Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India Open Doors Gallery, The Figure (online exhibition), Artsy Revela'T Circuit, ‘Tempus Fugit’, Centro Cultural La Bòbila, Barcelona, Spain Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece Getxophoto Festival Internacional de Imagen, ‘Imaginar’, Getxo, Basque Country ImageNation Paris, ‘Just Women’, Galerie Joseph Le Palais, Paris, France BJP’s Portrait of Humanity, PHOTO 2022 ‘Being Human’, Melbourne, Australia Dangerous Bodies curated by Marina Paulenka, Kers Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Open Doors Gallery: Ones to Watch, 2022 (online exhibition), Artsy BJP & Wateraid: Look Climate Lab 2022 with Monty Kaplan, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK PHROOM, On Possibilities of Frictions, A4 Sounds, Dublin, Ireland Bird in Flight Prize ‘21, Klaipėda Culture Communication Center, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2021 OD Photo Prize, Open Doors Gallery (online exhibition) PHmuseum Days, Binario Centrale, DumBO, Bologna, Italy Verzasca Foto Festival, Castello Marcacci, Brione Verzasca, Switzerland (screening) LagosPhoto Festival, Memory Palace, Lagos, Nigeria (screening) FORMAT Festival, Control, Derby, UK BJP IPA Awards, Seen Fifteen Gallery, London, UK Sinécdoque, Kiosko Galería (online exhibition) Humble Arts Foundation, La Frontera: A New Latinx Lexicon, (online exhibition)
2020 Feria INFO de Buenos Aires (online exhibition) Fotofestival Schiedam, The Netherlands Mujeres Siglo XXI, Sótano Arte, Cochabamba, Bolivia Terra Incognita : Nueva Fotografía Boliviana, Kiosko Galería, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2019 Now, for the Future, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK Time To Think, Festival Pil’Ours, Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France
2018 The Anti Art Fair, Creative Debuts, Unit 8, London, UK
Shutter Hub Open, The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
Nasty Women Liverpool, Constellations, Liverpool, UK
awards & honors
2023 Foam Talent 2024-2025, selected artist Sony World Photography Awards, Professional competition: Environment category, winner Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022, winner
2022 RPS: The International Photography Exhibition 164, selected artist Star Photobook Dummy Award, nominated by Verónica Fieiras, finalist PhotoVogue Global Open Call, selected artist BJP Female in Focus, single image winner Athens Photo Festival Open Call, winner Bup Book Award, shortlisted artist Portrait of Humanity Vol. 4, winner Getxophoto’s Open Call, winner
2021 PHmuseum Photography Grant New Generation Prize, winner 1854’s Fast Track, winner PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant, shortlisted artist Bird in Flight Prize ‘21, shortlisted artist Lucie Scholarship Program: Photo Made, honorable mention Intersection PHmuseum Exhibition Prize, shortlisted artist OD Photo Prize, shortlisted artist Firecracker Grant, highly commended artist Andy Rochelli Grant, Cesura, shortlisted artist
2020 FOLIO Online International Photobook Masterclass, PHmuseum & Witty Books, scholarship Michael Reichmann Project Grant, Photolucida, winner BJP International Photography Award, single image winner
2019 The Independent Photographer, Portrait Awards, editor’s pick
publications (print)
2024 Foam Magazine #65 Talent, published by Foam Maria und Mama Quilla: Die Fotografin Marisol Mendez inszeniert Frauen als Heilige, published by Die Zeit Urbanautica Awards Catalog 2023, published by Urbanautica
2023 MADRE published by Setanta Books (monograph) Sony World Photography Awards Book, published by World Photography Organisation Fresh Eyes International, published by GUP Magazine Playfulness, published by Pommegranate Press & Balam (group book) Site Specific: Photography Exhibitions from around the World, published by Tall Poppy Press The Big Rot, published by Zone and still I rise, published by SOLA
2022 Luzmila Carpio Soars to Great Heights in Life, Career & Legacy published by Remezcla, Heritage Issue Feminist Zine, commissioned by WeTransfer Portrait of Humanity Vol.4 Book, published by BJP & Hoxton Mini Press 2021 Women Photograph Annual published by Women Photograph WMN Magazine, Issue 02
2021 Cover of Then & Now, February Issue, The British Journal of Photography Cover of JRNL 7, Winter Issue, FotoFilmic Inside, PHmuseum 2nd Photobook On Mobile Photography, published by PHmuseum
2020 Performance, Issue 67, GUP Magazine Mestizx, Issue 06, Balam
2019 Shapes, Issue 00, Mulieris Magazine
2018 The Portrait of Britain Book, published by BJP & Hoxton Mini Press
press, interviews & features (online)
2024 Wallpaper, Marisol Mendez's ‘Madre’ unpicks the woven threads of Bolivian womanhood, Sofia de la Cruz C41, Marisol Mendez: Padre, Ilaria Sponda Urbanautica, How No Man Will Ever Know, Steve Bisson Dispatches, The Infinite Resonances of a Single Word: Marisol Mendez’s "Madre", Arturo Soto Collector Daily, Marisol Mendez: Madre review, Loring Knoblauch
2023 i-D, Marisol Mendez subverts classic tropes about women in her photography, Miss Rosen AnOther Magazine, Marisol Mendez’s Defiant Portraits of “Real” Bolivian Women, Flossie Skelton Lampoon Magazine, Marisol Mendez: la condizione di molte donne in Bolivia tra sessismo e patriarcato, Claudia Bigongiari See-zeen, Focus on Latin America, Issue 10, online It’s Nice That, Marisol Mendez and Federico Kaplan document the impact of the climate crisis on the Colombian Wayuu people, Yaya Azariah Clarke Women in Photography, Fast Forward: MADRE, online Vogue, PhotoVogue Digital Art Collection • First Drop, online Der Grief, A Q&A with Community Members Federico “Monty” Kaplan and Marisol Mendez, online article Bob Books, Miruku: Interview with Sony World Photography Award Winner Marisol Mendez, Marianne Stenger London College of Fashion, Miruku: Exploring the Water Crisis Through Artistic Vision and Stories of Resilience, Lubna Hussain Musée Magazine, Photo Journal Monday: Marisol Mendez, online The British Journal of Photography, Sony World Photography Awards 2023 winners announced, Izabela Radwanska Zhang Artishock, Diez Artistas Mujeres de origen Latinamericano en la Bienal de Sharjah, online article Fiiiirst, Discussion: Marisol Mendez - Jessica Auer, online
2022 Audioteca Fotográfica, MADRE - Marisol Mendez, Isabel Hernández The British Journal of Photography, Monty Kaplan & Marisol Mendez’s multilayered response to the water crisis, Hannah Abel-Hirsh LensCulture, Interview: MADRE, Sophie Wright Photo-Letter, Marisol Mendez: MADRE, online Just Women, Photographers: Marisol Mendez, online The British Journal of Photography, Female in Focus 2022: The Winners, Joanna Cresswell The Guardian, Female in Focus photography award 2022 - in pictures Clan Magazine, Mother, Issue 4 Foto Femme United, Marisol Mendez: MADRE, Aayushi Gupta Aux Magazine, Retrato de la diversidad, Roberto Gonzaléz Elephant Magazine, What Is Imagination? The Getxophoto Festival Has a Few Ideas…, Madeleine Pollard PHmuseum, PHmuseum Editors’ Top Projects of 2021, online
2021 Vist Projects, Sigue muy viva esa opresión, Julia Muriel Dominzain La Razon, MADRE, el foto ensayo que desafía la mirada, María José Richter Paper Journal, Marisol Mendez: MADRE, online Musée Magazine, Photolucida’s Online Auction Adventure, online Discarded Magazine, Marisol Mendez: MADRE, online ClickMagazine, Marisol Mendez: MADRE, Issue 79 PHmuseum, The Fiery Fortitude of Bolivian Women, Lucia De Stefani Velvet Eyes Magazine, MADRE by Marisol Mendez, Illias Lois The British Journal of Photography, Introducing 1854’s FastTrack winners: Otto Masters, Marisol Mendez and Irina Shkoda, Joanna Cresswell The British Journal of Photography, Mendez & Kaplan’s exploration of the Colombian water crisis, Alice Finney
2020 The British Journal of Photography, Portraits of Bolivian women celebrate resilience in the face of ongoing patriarchal stigmas, Izabela Radwanska Zhang Loupe Magazine, MADRE by Marisol Mendez, Leia Morrison The Photographic Journal, Sinécdoque, online PHROOM, Marisol Mendez: MADRE, online PHmuseum, The Influence of Race and Religion on the Representation of Bolivian Women, Verónica Sanchis
Der Greif, Guestroom online, Holly Hay, Olivia Hazeldine & Sophie Gladstone
2019 Opinión, Marisol Mendez artista talentosa y exitosa, editorial Los Tiempos, Marisol Mendez: “La fotografía es una manera de mirar y la ilusión de poseer”, Claudia Eid Asbún Shutter Hub, Close Up: Marisol Mendez - MADRE, online
Aint - Bad, Marisol Mendez: MADRE, online
talks & lectures
2024 Urbanautica, Ep. #4: Exploring Identity and Tradition: Marisol Mendez on "MADRE" - The Urbanaut Podcast
2023 Rádio Universitária do Minho (RUM), Encontros da Imagem 2023 PhMuseum Days Festival, Marisol Mendez presenta MADRE (Setanta Books) PhMuseum Days Festival, Portraiture & the Gaze Sony World Photography Awards, Meet the winners: Marisol Mendez & Federico Monty Kaplan, Environment, 2023 Professional competition Fotos con Fede, Marisol Mendez. Fotógrafa Documental y Artística. Cochabamba, Bolivia
2022 FotoCreativaBA, FotoComBA Programa de Artistas, Marisol Mendez EAFMX, Encuentros: Del Otro Lado del Espejo con Marisol Mendez Shutter Hub, Symposium: Your Body Belongs to You Mujeres Foto Espacio Boliva, Conversatorio Fotográfico
2021 Folio: PHmuseum International Photobook Masterclass Public Presentation Vist Projects, Vist Live con Luciana Demichelis Kiosko Galería, Organismos Vivos: La Mirada Femenina Red Uno Bolivia, A solas con Marisol Mendez, destacada fotógrafa boliviana en el exterior Shutter Hub, The Long and Winding Road: From an Idea to a Photobook
2020 Warmi Photo, Residencia Estallidxs Existimos: Más Allá de la Mirada Masculina Warmi Photo, Warmi Charlas con Marisol Mendez