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EXHIBITIONS
2026 Photo London, Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize, National Hall Olympia, London, UK
2026 Art Nou, Sorondo Projects, Hangar, Barcelona, ES
2026 International Festival of Contemporary Photography, Kranj Foto Fest, Kranj, SI
2026 Rotterdam Photo Festival: ‘Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist’s Soul’, Deliplein, Rotterdam, NL
2025 Foam, ‘Foam Talent 2024-25’, The Cube, Frankfurt, GE
2025 ‘Relayer: D’ici 60 ans’ by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez & Ana Janevski, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
2025 Rencontres d’Arles Festival: ‘Night of the Year’, Ancien Collège Mistral, Arles, FR
2025 PhotoVogue Festival: ‘A Love Letter to Nature’, BASE Milano, Milan, IT
2025 Verzasca Foto Festival: ́Bodies of Water’, Verzasca, CH
2025 Rencontres Photographiques de Guyane: ‘Florestiana’ by Ioana Mello, CIAP, Transportation Camp, GF
2025 Bronx Documentary Center: ‘Foto Féminas: 10th Anniversary’ curated by Verónica Sanchis, New York, US
2024 Lucie Scholarship Program Winners Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, US
2024 Marian Cramer & Kers Gallery Pop Up, MR 80 Gallery, Paris, FR
2024 Unseen 2024, Kers Gallery, Westergas Amsterdam Klönneplein 1, Amsterdam, NL
2024 Foam Talent 2024-25, Foam, Amsterdam, NL
2024 ‘Come Nessun Uomo Saprà Mai’ curated by Steve Bisson, Lab27, Treviso, IT
2024 Imagenation: ‘Just Women’ curated by Martin Vegas, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan, IT
2024 Revela’t Festival: ‘Fotolibros e Identidad’ curated by Mireia Alises, Vilassar de Dalt, Barcelona, ES
2024 Imaginária Festival curated by Ana Paula Vitorio & Masina Pinheiro, Edifício Vera, São Paulo, BR
2023 Sharjah Biennial 15: ‘Thinking Historically in the Present’ curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Sharjah, UAE
2023 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK (traveling exhibition)
2023 Encontros da Imagem: ‘Essay for the Future’, Braga, PT
2023 ‘Novias’ curated by Balam & Valerie Factory, Barrakesh, Buenos Aires, AR
2023 Royal Photographic Society: ‘IPE 164’, The Royal Photographic Society House, Bristol, UK
2023 O jo MX, QiPO Art Fair, Mexico City, MX
2022 Getxophoto: ‘Imaginar’ curated by Jon Uriarte, Getxo, ES
2022 Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
2022 ‘Dangerous Bodies’ curated by Marina Paulenka, Kers Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2022 BJP’s ‘Female in Focus’, Photofusion, London, UK / The Bridge & Tunnel Gallery, New York, US
2022 Bird in Flight Prize ‘21, Klaipėda Culture Communication Center, Klaipėda, LT
2022 BJP & Wateraid: ‘Look Climate Lab 2022’ (with Monty Kaplan), Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2022 ‘Tempus Fugit’, Centro Cultural La Bòbila, Barcelona, ES
2022 BJP’s ‘Portrait of Humanity’, PHOTO 2022: Being Human, Melbourne, AU
2022 PHROOM: ‘On Possibilities of Friction’ curated by Ilaria, A4 Sounds, Dublin, IE
2021 PhMuseum Days: ‘A New Beginning’, Binario Centrale, DumBO, Bologna, IT
2021 FORMAT Festival: ‘Control’, Derby, UK
2021 BJP’s ‘International Photography Awards’, Seen Fifteen Gallery, London, UK
2020 ‘Mujeres Siglo XXI’, Sótano Arte, Cochabamba, BO
2020 ‘Terra Incognita’ curated by Daniel Mebarek, Kiosko Galería, Santa Cruz, BO

AWARDS & HONOURS
2026 Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize winner (US)
2026 FUTURES artist, nominated by Elisa Medde & Foto Colectania (ES)
2026 Kranj Foto Fest Open Call, winner (SI)
2026 New York Portfolio Review, selected artist (US)
2025 Rencontres d’Arles: Night of the Year, best of (FR)
2025 Verzasca Foto Festival, finalist (CH)
2024 Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship, winner (US)
2024 PhMuseum Women Photographers’ Grant, 3rd prize recipient (IT)
2024 PhotoVogue Latin America Panorama, selected artist (IT)
2024 Cortona on the Move Award, selected artist (IT)
2024 PHotoESPAÑA: Premio al Mejor Libro de Fotografía del Año, Categoría Creación, shortlisted artist (ES)
2023 Foam Talent 2024-2025, selected artist (NL)
2023 Sony World Photography Awards, Professional competition: Environment category, winner (UK)
2023 Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022, selected artist (IT)
2022 Getxophoto’s Open Call, winner (ES)
2022 Athens Photo Festival Open Call, winner (GR)
2022 BJP Female in Focus, single image winner (UK)
2022 BJP Portrait of Humanity Vol. 4, winner (UK)
2022 Royal Photographic Society: IPE 164, selected artist (UK)
2022 PhotoVogue Global Open Call, selected artist (IT)
2022 Star Photobook Dummy Award, nominated by Verónica Fieiras, finalist (ES)
2022 Bup Book Award, shortlisted artist (PL)
2021 PhMuseum Photography Grant New Generation Prize, winner (IT)
2021 1854’s Fast Track, winner (UK)
2021 Lucie Scholarship Program: Photo Made, honorable mention (US)
2021 Firecracker Grant, highly commended artist (UK)
2021 PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant, shortlisted artist (IT)
2021 Bird in Flight Prize ‘21, shortlisted artist (RU)
2021 Intersection PHmuseum Exhibition Prize, shortlisted artist (IT)
2021 OD Photo Prize, shortlisted artist (UK)
2021 Andy Rochelli Grant, Cesura, shortlisted artist (IT)
2020 PhMuseum & Witty Books: FOLIO Online International Photobook Masterclass, scholarship awardee (IT)
2020 Photolucida’s Michael Reichmann Project Grant, Photolucida, winner (US)
2020 BJP International Photography Award, single image winner (UK)

COLLECTIONS
2025 The Kunstmuseum Den Haag (NL) - MADRE prints
2025 Getty Museum (US) - MADRE photobook
2025 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (US) - MADRE photobook

RESIDENCIES
2024 Académie des beaux-arts & Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
2023 FotoCreativaBA Residencia Artística, Buenos Aires, AR

PUBLICATIONS (PRINT)
2026 Atmos, Coevolve, Volume 13 (US)
2025 World of Interiors, August Issue (UK)
2025 Beyond Noise, Issue 4 (US/UK)
2025 Exit #97 (ES)
2025 Magazine PHOTO #563 (FR)
2025 Femgrafía & miau ediciones, Index: Liberando el Archivo (MX)
2025 Hometown Journal #4: ‘The Way Home’ (DE)
2024 Foam, Foam Magazine #65 Talent (NL)
2024 Fisheye Magazine, Les Femmes dans la Foto #66 (FR)
2024 Balam, La Bohemia, Issue 10 (AR)
2024 Urbanautica, Urbanautica Awards Catalogue 2023 (IT)
2024 FotoFilmic, JRNL 21, Summer Issue (CA)
2024 Revista Morel, Cover of Morel #11, Autumn Issue (BR)
2023 World Photography Organisation, Sony World Photography Awards Book (UK)
2023 GUP, Fresh Eyes International (NL)
2023 Balam & Pommegranate Press, Playfulness (US)
2023 Tall Poppy Press, Site Specific: Photography Exhibitions from around the World (AU)
2023 Zone Magazine, The Big Rot (IT)
2022 Remezcla, Luzmila Carpio Soars to Great Heights in Life, Career & Legacy, Heritage Issue (US)
2022 British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Humanity Book Vol. 4 (UK)
2022 Women Photograph, 2021 Women Photograph Annual (US)
2022 WMN Magazine, International Women’s Day, Issue 02 (UK)
2021 British Journal of Photography, Cover of Then & Now, February Issue (UK)
2021 FotoFilmic, Cover of JRNL 7, Winter Issue (CA)
2021 PhMmuseum, Inside: PHmuseum 2nd Photobook On Mobile Photography (IT)
2020 GUP Magazine, Performance, Issue 67 (NL)
2020 Balam, Mestizx, Issue 06 (AR)
2019 Mulieris Magazine, Shapes, Issue 00 (IT)
2018 British Journal of Photography, The Portrait of Britain Book Vol. 1 (UK)

TALKS & LECTURES
2025 Paris College of Art, Seminar I Portfolio Production with Marisol Mendez (FR)
2025 PhotoVogue, Shared Perspectives: The Female and Male Gaze on Women (IT)
2024 Urbanautica, Ep. #4: Exploring Identity and Tradition: “MADRE” - The Urbanaut Podcast (US)
2024 CAMPO_Fotolibros 2024, Artista Invitada: Marisol Méndez (AR)
2023 Radio Universitária do Minho (RUM), Encontros da Imagem 2023 (PL)
2023 PhMuseum Days Festival, Marisol Mendez presenta MADRE, Setanta Books (IT)
2023 PhMuseum Days Festival, Portraiture & the Gaze (IT)
2023 Sony World Photography Awards, Meet the winners: Marisol Mendez & Federico Monty Kaplan (UK)
2022 FotoCreativaBA, FotoComBA Programa de Artistas, Marisol Méndez (AR)
2022 EAFMX, Encuentros: Del Otro Lado del Espejo con Marisol Méndez (MX)
2022 Shutter Hub, Symposium: Your Body Belongs to You (UK)
2022 Mujeres Foto Espacio Boliva, Conversatorio Fotográfico (BO)
2021 Vist Projects, Vist Live con Luciana Demichelis (AR)
2021 PhMuseum, Folio: PHmuseum International Photobook Masterclass Public Presentation (IT)
2021 Kiosko Galería, Organismos Vivos: La Mirada Femenina (BO)
2021 Shutter Hub, The Long and Winding Road: From an Idea to a Photobook (UK)

PRESS & INTERVIEWS
2026 La Repubblica, Marisol Méndez: le mie foto senza tabù per liberare la Bolivia by Irene Alison
2026 The Guardian, A woman with a bull costume exuding masculine energy by Amy Fleming
2026 Art Review, Marisol Mendez wins 2026 Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize
2025 The Independent Photographer, Marisol Mendez: Culture, Memory and Identity by Rosie Torres
2025 PhMuseum, Inherited Shadows: Journey Through Masculinity and Its Haunting Legacy by Lucia De Stefani
2025 PhotoVogue, Female Gazes: Ana Margarita Flores & Marisol Mendez by Caterina de Biasio
2025 Yogurt Magazine, Padre by Marisol Mendez by Alessia Cossu
2025 Pellicola Magazine, Navigating Identity Through Art. The Journey of Marisol Mendez by Erika Giulietti
2024 Fisheye, Marisol Mendez: Contemporary Madonnas by Ana Corderot
2024 Wallpaper, ‘Madre’ unpicks the woven threads of Bolivian womanhood by Sofia de la Cruz
2024 C41, Marisol Mendez: Padre by Ilaria Sponda
2024 Urbanautica, How No Man Will Ever Know by Steve Bisson
2024 Dispatches, The Infinite Resonances of a Single Word: Marisol Mendez’s “Madre” by Arturo Soto
2024 Collector Daily, Marisol Mendez: Madre by Loring Knoblauch
2023 Photobookstore, Photobooks of 2023 by Aaron Schuman
2023 i-D, Marisol Mendez subverts classic tropes about women in her photography by Miss Rosen
2023 AnOther Magazine, Marisol Mendez’s Defiant Portraits of “Real” Bolivian Women by Flossie Skelton
2023 Lampoon Magazine, La condizione di molte donne in Bolivia tra sessismo e patriarcato by Claudia Bigongiari
2023 It’s Nice That, The impact of the climate crisis on the Wayuu people by Yaya Azariah Clarke
2023 Der Grief, ‘A Q&A with Community Members Federico “Monty” Kaplan and Marisol Mendez’
2023 Artishock, ‘Diez Artistas Mujeres de origen latinoamericano en la Bienal de Sharjah’
2022 LensCulture, Interview: MADRE by Sophie Wright
2022 Foto Femme United, Marisol Mendez: MADRE by Aayushi Gupta
2022 Audioteca Fotográfica, MADRE - Marisol Méndez by Isabel Hernández
2021 Vist Projects, Sigue muy viva esa opresión by Julia Muriel Dominzain
2021 PHmuseum, The Fiery Fortitude of Bolivian Women by Lucia De Stefani
2021 Velvet Eyes Magazine, MADRE by Marisol Mendez by Illias Lois
2021 BJP, Introducing 1854’s FastTrack winners by Joanna Cresswell
2020 BJP, Portraits of Bolivian women celebrate resilience in the face of ongoing patriarchal stigmas by Iza R. Zhang
2020 Loupe Magazine, MADRE by Marisol Mendez by Leia Morrison
2020 PHmuseum, The Influence of Race and Religion on the Representation of Bolivian Women, Verónica Sanchis