Liliana Ang C. Granillo is a painter, art educator, and cultural entrepreneur. Of Mexican and Spanish descent, and of Chinese heritage, she was born in Mexico City in 1983 and has lived in Madrid since 2018.
Her work has been exhibited in emblematic spaces such as Museo del Chopo (Mexico City), Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque (Madrid), Museo del Pueblo de Guanajuato (Mexico), Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte (UNAM, Mexico), Museo de Bellas Artes de Querétaro (Mexico), Museo del Retrato Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez (Mexico), Museo de Arte Moderno del Estado de México, Museo Memoria y Tolerancia (Mexico), among many others. Her work has also been exhibited in Belgium, El Salvador, and the United States.
Her work has been recognized with the Acciona Grant (2018), Road to Growth Award (2017) for young female entrepreneurs, the selection of the project Gritos de Placer y Protesta for exhibition at the Espai d’Art Ca Lambert, Alicante (2016), and the first prize at the Gómez Palacio National Painting Biennial (2010).
Her continuously expanding practice has led her to develop professionally as a cultural manager, founding Espacio Fidencia (2014-2018) in Mexico City, where she developed more than 50 activities, including exhibitions, workshops, and presentations, aimed at supporting emerging artists.
Since 2009, she has taught art, focusing on children, currently through the ArteParque project, which she founded and leads.
The birth of her daughter prompted a transformation that led her to migrate to Spain, marking a turning point in her life and practice, deepening her conscious, critical, transfeminist, and antiracist perspective. From this perspective, she approaches her painting practice, pursuing alternative understandings and reorganizations of the symbolic and representational power of painting to challenge patriarchy and other pictorial norms, in the search for innovative formats that contribute to the creation of a world that can fit many worlds.
