BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Valeria Florescano lives in Mexico City. Her former education as a designer and her belonging to a family of historians has been crucial to her development and work with glass since she first experimented with this material years ago. Her work places art, craft, industry and tradition in parallel, so as to understand the complexity of today’s hybrid culture as we live it.
She works understanding the historical trajectory of an object and its development, its passing from a natural state to an utilitarian condition (a step in which subsistence depends) until the reach of a higher degree of sophistication in usage and/or manufacture.
Seeking to unleash tensions and dialogue around strict notions and concepts assumed as absolutes, like nationality, identity, tradition, art and craft. She is interested in ordinary objects of daily life because simple bodies can tigger off universal sensations.
In 2010 Florescano completed a MFA on sculpture at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (UNAM). Valeria has shown abroad in the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, the United States, Japan, Finland, Ukraine, Poland and China.
INDIVIDUAL & COLLECTIVE SHOWS
2019. Exposición Tiempo de Mujeres. Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl . CdMx.
2019.Jewellery: Rituales del Maíz. Hueso Restaurante. Guadalajara Jal.
2018. Glass: from utilitary craft to contemporary design. Gallery at the XXI Century National Medical Center Congress Unit. Curator: José Antonio Espinosa.
2017. 8th. utilitary ceramic biennial. Museo Franz Mayer. Cdmx.
2017. International Glass Art Conference and exhibition. Ningbo, China.
2016. Portable sculpture. Cyclng action between Helen Escobedo´s “Puertas al Viento” and Faro Tláhuac Art & community.
2016. Sculpture and Community Garden “7barrios” with artist Sarah Gilbert. Faro Tláhuac art & community. Mexico city
2015. solo show “Poglos”. Galeria SIC! BWA Contemporary glass and ceramic gallery. Wroclaw, Poland.
2014. ASVOFF. Fashion and Film Festival video projection. Museum of Decorative Arts Franz Mayer,
2014. THINK TWICE. Colective of Contempory jewellery. Museum of Decorative Arts Franz Mayer, México D.F.
2014. Reverberations, glass installation with Sarah Gilbert. Ethnobotanichal Garden. Oax, México.
2014. Individual. Galería Gorilla. Oaxaca, Oaxaca.
2013. PULSE, Miami Art Fair. Galeria Acacia. Booth C-308, Miami, Florida. EUA.
2013. FILUX, Internacional light Festival 2013. Iglesia de la Concepción, Cuepopan, Downtown. México DF.
2013. Collective. “O Lado femenino do vidro”. Marinha Grande Glass Museum. Portugal.
2012. Collective. Gorilla Gallery. (glass and ceramics) Oaxaca, Oax.
2012. Individual. Diálogues &Tensions. Museum of Popular Arts,. México DF.
2010-12. Collective. Transverse Object, at Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oax. Jose Luis Benlliure Gallery UNAM, México, and National Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland.
2011. Latin American Glass Art Exhibition. Joseph Gross Gallery. Tucson, AZ. EUA.
2010. Individual. Cáliz Tehuana. Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oax. México.
2010. Graduating Show MFA 2008/1-2009/2 San Carlos Academy, ENAP, México City National University. Historical Center, México.
2009. Collective. “Presencias, signos y visiones” at Galería López Quiroga, DF. México
2009. “31st” Pilchuck Glass school auction, Seattle, EUA.
2008. Finalist. “2nd Glass Biennal”. Finalist. VITRO GLASS MUSEUM, Monterrey, México.
2007. "8th International Blown Glass Sympossium" L'viv National Museum of Art, Ukraine.
2007. "The Mistery of Light", Mexican Glass collective. Galería Jesús Gallardo in León, Guanajuato. and Museo de Artes Populares. Historical Center. México City.
2006. Mexico-Japan trade exhibition at Plaza Gallery, Chofu-shi, Tokyo & Osaka, Japan.
2005. “Highlights, Contemporary Artistic Glass”. Collective at MURALLA, Cultural Space, Tenango del Aire, Edo. Mex.
2005. ALARCA, Collective. Ceramics of 54 Contemporary Artists. Talavera de la Reyna factory. Galería de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño. Puebla. México.
2005. “Movement and Erosion”. Individual. Galería de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño. Puebla, México.
2005. “Manyfold Series” Monterrey, N.L. México.
2004. Individual ”GLASS PROPOSALS 2004” at Museo “Casa Luis Barragán”. México City.
2004. “Contemporary Art in Glass”. VITRO GLASS MUSEUM, Monterrey, N.L, México.
2003. "hOLAnDA 2003". (LADF) Latinamerican Design Foundation. Amsterdam. NL.
2003. A two person show with Mexican glass designer Rosa Ortega Grönlund. “Antigua Fábrica de Carretones”.Mexico City.
2002. “House, Dress & Sustain”. Collective. X Teresa Arte Actual. Curator: Guillermo Santamarina. México City.
GLASS & ACADEMIC STUDIES
2018- Organizes Global Pathwys for Craft Forum, Oaxaca.
2018- Attends Contemporary jewelery workshop studies with Lorena Lazard foradvanced techniques in metal. CdMx.
2017- GlassTAC conference. Art & Cience in glass. Lisboa Portugal.
2016- Full scholarship. Pilchuck Glass school workshop Bryan Jablonski: Scaling Up with Success Seattle, WA. USA.
2015. EXTREME GLASS CONFERENCE. Northlands Creative Glass Center, Lybster, Scotland UK. 2015
2014. WCC Forum. World Craft Council Jubilee. Dongyang, provence Zhejiang, China.
2014. Sympossium in Rona Factory, Slovakia.
2013. Ninth glass Sympossium Lviv, National University of Arts. Lviv,Ukraine.
2013. Optical fiber workshop. Astrid Krogh. Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Oaxaca.
2012. Scholarship.Neon class. Pilchuck school of Glass. Jeremy Bert. Seattle, WA. USA.
2010-2011. Works series of jewelery in blown glass for Nouvel Studio factory
2010. Mix glass. Class with Lance Friedman- Corning Museum of Glass, NY. USA.
2009. lampwork scholarship/ John and Elsie Burton for the “lampworked Borosilicate glass ” workshop.Roger Parramore, Seattle, USA.
2008. Scholarship. Workshop “Mixed media“ Brent Summerhouser, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle,
2007. Congress “Arquitechtural Glass“, DERIX Glass Studios and the Architecture Faculty, UNAM National University of Mexico.
2007. Scholarship. Workshop “Pathe de verre“. Deborah Horrell, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, USA.
2007. Workshop “Sand Casting”. Ana Thiel. San Miguel de Allende, Gto, México.
2005. “ Beginners Glass blowing”. Betina Visentin. Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, USA.
2002. Workshop, “Glass casting, fusing and mosaic“ at the “Escola del Vidre”, with Rene Culler and Phillipa Beveridge. Barcelona, Spain.
2000. Workshop. “Grisaille and glass painting techniques“. Maribel Navarro Nieto. Escola del Vidre. Fundación Centre del Vidre. Barcelona, Spain.
1999. Workshop at “Taller Arte en Vidrio” VITRO, Monterrey. Adriana Canales.
1997. Scholarship. Workshop on “Lampworking Techniques” Sally Prasch.at Penland N. C., EUA.
1993. BA in Graphic Design from Universidad Anáhuac, México City.
RECOGNITIONS & PUBLICATIONS
2018 Garlandmag # 12, Oaxaca (https://garlandmag.com/issue-12/) which she helped coordinate as mexican editor.
2017. Finalist. Utilitary ceramic biennial. Museo Franz Mayer.
2017. Ningbo Glass Art sympossium catalogue, Ningbo, China.
2015. Rona Glass sympossium catalogue
2015. -Member of the Editorial Board epresentative for the Mexico region for GARLAND, Asia Pacific Craft Review. E-zine based in Melbourne, Australia. Offering new perspectives of craft and design from Mexico across the Pacific, and seeking to strengthen ties with SouthEast Asia..
2015. Museo do Vidro. Marinha Grande, Portugal acquires Tehuana Goblet Installation for Contemporary glass wing. acquired by Divisão de Cidadania e Desenvolvimento Câmara Municipal da Marinha Grande
2013. Catálogo.“O Lado femenino do vidro”. Museu do Vidro/ Faculdade de Belas Artes, e Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
2012. The First Design Directory CENTRO University & PROMEXICO.
2012. Opening Valeria Florescano showroom | Mezzanine. Downtown hotel. Grupo Habita.
2011 Jewelry for the Carla Fernández catwalk. Mercedes-BenzDF Fashion Week, México
2011. New Glass Review 32. Tehuana Goblet.The Corning Museum of Glass, NY. EUA.
2010. Scholarship. The Corning Museum of Glass, NY. EUA.
2010. art. De Anna Carnick para ARTSLOPE.com “traditional values: Valeria Florescano”
2009. Catalogue, ·31st Pilchuck Glass Auction.
2009. “A partir de Joyce” enters the Vitro Collection.
2008. WALLPAPER* magazine (june). http://www.wallpaper.com/fashion/mexican-fashion-designers/2448
2008. “2nd Glass Biennal” Catalogue. VITRO GLASS MUSEUM, Monterrey, N.L, México
2007. Starts MFA with orientation on Sculpture. ENAP, UNAM, México
2006-2009. Teaches warm glass studio at the School of Design. Univ. Anahuac. México.
2005.Catalogue.“Highlights, Contemporary Artistic Glass”. MURALLA, Cultural Space Mx
2005. Scholarship at Pilchuck School of glass. Seattle, Washington. USA.
2005.Catalogue." ALARCA, Ceramics of 54 Contemporary Artists".
2005.Honorary member. Alumni Board. School of Design. U. Anáhuac, México City.
2004. Catalogue, V.V. Glass Proposals
1997. Scholarship at Penland School of Arts and Crafts. North Carolina, USA.
LECTURES & CONFERENCES
2017. Glass & Ceramics,. Art Faculty, Universidad de Oporto. Portugal.
2016. Glass and Aluminum Sculpture for the Community Garden “at Faro Tlahuac Together with artist Sarah Gilbert.
2016. "Urban Botanics"Children Workshop. With artist Sarah Gilbert. At La CBDA Art and Community Center. Mexico City.
2014. Preservation of Cultural Heritage through Contemporary Art at the ceramic community of Atzompa, Oaxaca.
2013. Workshop Blossom. Galeria Mexicana de Diseño, México DF.
2009. Creating a Common History. Artist, Designers and Craft people conference. Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oax, México.
2007." Mexican Glass, from Precolombian to present times" Conference at " 8th International Blown Glass Sympossium" Berezhany, Ukraine.
2006. Conference "3er. Congreso Internacional Diseñar para la Humanidad: Objetos Cotidianos" at ART & CRAFT Museum (MAP), Mexico City, Historical Center.
2005. Lecture on “glass techniques applied to architecture” for the exhibit “GAUDI: architect and artist”. San Idelfonso Museum. Mexico City, Historical Center.
2005. Lecture on “Organic Forms in Blown glass” for the exhibit “GAUDI: architect and artist”. San Idelfonso Museum. Mexico City, Historical Center.
2005. Conference panel “Designing for the senses”, School of Design. Universidad Anáhuac, México City.
Valeria Florescano lives in Mexico City. Her former education as a designer and her belonging to a family of historians has been crucial to her development and work with glass since she first experimented with this material years ago. Her work places art, craft, industry and tradition in parallel, so as to understand the complexity of today’s hybrid culture as we live it.
She works understanding the historical trajectory of an object and its development, its passing from a natural state to an utilitarian condition (a step in which subsistence depends) until the reach of a higher degree of sophistication in usage and/or manufacture.
Seeking to unleash tensions and dialogue around strict notions and concepts assumed as absolutes, like nationality, identity, tradition, art and craft. She is interested in ordinary objects of daily life because simple bodies can tigger off universal sensations.
In 2010 Florescano completed a MFA on sculpture at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (UNAM). Valeria has shown abroad in the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, the United States, Japan, Finland, Ukraine, Poland and China.
INDIVIDUAL & COLLECTIVE SHOWS
2019. Exposición Tiempo de Mujeres. Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl . CdMx.
2019.Jewellery: Rituales del Maíz. Hueso Restaurante. Guadalajara Jal.
2018. Glass: from utilitary craft to contemporary design. Gallery at the XXI Century National Medical Center Congress Unit. Curator: José Antonio Espinosa.
2017. 8th. utilitary ceramic biennial. Museo Franz Mayer. Cdmx.
2017. International Glass Art Conference and exhibition. Ningbo, China.
2016. Portable sculpture. Cyclng action between Helen Escobedo´s “Puertas al Viento” and Faro Tláhuac Art & community.
2016. Sculpture and Community Garden “7barrios” with artist Sarah Gilbert. Faro Tláhuac art & community. Mexico city
2015. solo show “Poglos”. Galeria SIC! BWA Contemporary glass and ceramic gallery. Wroclaw, Poland.
2014. ASVOFF. Fashion and Film Festival video projection. Museum of Decorative Arts Franz Mayer,
2014. THINK TWICE. Colective of Contempory jewellery. Museum of Decorative Arts Franz Mayer, México D.F.
2014. Reverberations, glass installation with Sarah Gilbert. Ethnobotanichal Garden. Oax, México.
2014. Individual. Galería Gorilla. Oaxaca, Oaxaca.
2013. PULSE, Miami Art Fair. Galeria Acacia. Booth C-308, Miami, Florida. EUA.
2013. FILUX, Internacional light Festival 2013. Iglesia de la Concepción, Cuepopan, Downtown. México DF.
2013. Collective. “O Lado femenino do vidro”. Marinha Grande Glass Museum. Portugal.
2012. Collective. Gorilla Gallery. (glass and ceramics) Oaxaca, Oax.
2012. Individual. Diálogues &Tensions. Museum of Popular Arts,. México DF.
2010-12. Collective. Transverse Object, at Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oax. Jose Luis Benlliure Gallery UNAM, México, and National Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland.
2011. Latin American Glass Art Exhibition. Joseph Gross Gallery. Tucson, AZ. EUA.
2010. Individual. Cáliz Tehuana. Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oax. México.
2010. Graduating Show MFA 2008/1-2009/2 San Carlos Academy, ENAP, México City National University. Historical Center, México.
2009. Collective. “Presencias, signos y visiones” at Galería López Quiroga, DF. México
2009. “31st” Pilchuck Glass school auction, Seattle, EUA.
2008. Finalist. “2nd Glass Biennal”. Finalist. VITRO GLASS MUSEUM, Monterrey, México.
2007. "8th International Blown Glass Sympossium" L'viv National Museum of Art, Ukraine.
2007. "The Mistery of Light", Mexican Glass collective. Galería Jesús Gallardo in León, Guanajuato. and Museo de Artes Populares. Historical Center. México City.
2006. Mexico-Japan trade exhibition at Plaza Gallery, Chofu-shi, Tokyo & Osaka, Japan.
2005. “Highlights, Contemporary Artistic Glass”. Collective at MURALLA, Cultural Space, Tenango del Aire, Edo. Mex.
2005. ALARCA, Collective. Ceramics of 54 Contemporary Artists. Talavera de la Reyna factory. Galería de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño. Puebla. México.
2005. “Movement and Erosion”. Individual. Galería de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño. Puebla, México.
2005. “Manyfold Series” Monterrey, N.L. México.
2004. Individual ”GLASS PROPOSALS 2004” at Museo “Casa Luis Barragán”. México City.
2004. “Contemporary Art in Glass”. VITRO GLASS MUSEUM, Monterrey, N.L, México.
2003. "hOLAnDA 2003". (LADF) Latinamerican Design Foundation. Amsterdam. NL.
2003. A two person show with Mexican glass designer Rosa Ortega Grönlund. “Antigua Fábrica de Carretones”.Mexico City.
2002. “House, Dress & Sustain”. Collective. X Teresa Arte Actual. Curator: Guillermo Santamarina. México City.
GLASS & ACADEMIC STUDIES
2018- Organizes Global Pathwys for Craft Forum, Oaxaca.
2018- Attends Contemporary jewelery workshop studies with Lorena Lazard foradvanced techniques in metal. CdMx.
2017- GlassTAC conference. Art & Cience in glass. Lisboa Portugal.
2016- Full scholarship. Pilchuck Glass school workshop Bryan Jablonski: Scaling Up with Success Seattle, WA. USA.
2015. EXTREME GLASS CONFERENCE. Northlands Creative Glass Center, Lybster, Scotland UK. 2015
2014. WCC Forum. World Craft Council Jubilee. Dongyang, provence Zhejiang, China.
2014. Sympossium in Rona Factory, Slovakia.
2013. Ninth glass Sympossium Lviv, National University of Arts. Lviv,Ukraine.
2013. Optical fiber workshop. Astrid Krogh. Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Oaxaca.
2012. Scholarship.Neon class. Pilchuck school of Glass. Jeremy Bert. Seattle, WA. USA.
2010-2011. Works series of jewelery in blown glass for Nouvel Studio factory
2010. Mix glass. Class with Lance Friedman- Corning Museum of Glass, NY. USA.
2009. lampwork scholarship/ John and Elsie Burton for the “lampworked Borosilicate glass ” workshop.Roger Parramore, Seattle, USA.
2008. Scholarship. Workshop “Mixed media“ Brent Summerhouser, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle,
2007. Congress “Arquitechtural Glass“, DERIX Glass Studios and the Architecture Faculty, UNAM National University of Mexico.
2007. Scholarship. Workshop “Pathe de verre“. Deborah Horrell, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, USA.
2007. Workshop “Sand Casting”. Ana Thiel. San Miguel de Allende, Gto, México.
2005. “ Beginners Glass blowing”. Betina Visentin. Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, USA.
2002. Workshop, “Glass casting, fusing and mosaic“ at the “Escola del Vidre”, with Rene Culler and Phillipa Beveridge. Barcelona, Spain.
2000. Workshop. “Grisaille and glass painting techniques“. Maribel Navarro Nieto. Escola del Vidre. Fundación Centre del Vidre. Barcelona, Spain.
1999. Workshop at “Taller Arte en Vidrio” VITRO, Monterrey. Adriana Canales.
1997. Scholarship. Workshop on “Lampworking Techniques” Sally Prasch.at Penland N. C., EUA.
1993. BA in Graphic Design from Universidad Anáhuac, México City.
RECOGNITIONS & PUBLICATIONS
2018 Garlandmag # 12, Oaxaca (https://garlandmag.com/issue-12/) which she helped coordinate as mexican editor.
2017. Finalist. Utilitary ceramic biennial. Museo Franz Mayer.
2017. Ningbo Glass Art sympossium catalogue, Ningbo, China.
2015. Rona Glass sympossium catalogue
2015. -Member of the Editorial Board epresentative for the Mexico region for GARLAND, Asia Pacific Craft Review. E-zine based in Melbourne, Australia. Offering new perspectives of craft and design from Mexico across the Pacific, and seeking to strengthen ties with SouthEast Asia..
2015. Museo do Vidro. Marinha Grande, Portugal acquires Tehuana Goblet Installation for Contemporary glass wing. acquired by Divisão de Cidadania e Desenvolvimento Câmara Municipal da Marinha Grande
2013. Catálogo.“O Lado femenino do vidro”. Museu do Vidro/ Faculdade de Belas Artes, e Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
2012. The First Design Directory CENTRO University & PROMEXICO.
2012. Opening Valeria Florescano showroom | Mezzanine. Downtown hotel. Grupo Habita.
2011 Jewelry for the Carla Fernández catwalk. Mercedes-BenzDF Fashion Week, México
2011. New Glass Review 32. Tehuana Goblet.The Corning Museum of Glass, NY. EUA.
2010. Scholarship. The Corning Museum of Glass, NY. EUA.
2010. art. De Anna Carnick para ARTSLOPE.com “traditional values: Valeria Florescano”
2009. Catalogue, ·31st Pilchuck Glass Auction.
2009. “A partir de Joyce” enters the Vitro Collection.
2008. WALLPAPER* magazine (june). http://www.wallpaper.com/fashion/mexican-fashion-designers/2448
2008. “2nd Glass Biennal” Catalogue. VITRO GLASS MUSEUM, Monterrey, N.L, México
2007. Starts MFA with orientation on Sculpture. ENAP, UNAM, México
2006-2009. Teaches warm glass studio at the School of Design. Univ. Anahuac. México.
2005.Catalogue.“Highlights, Contemporary Artistic Glass”. MURALLA, Cultural Space Mx
2005. Scholarship at Pilchuck School of glass. Seattle, Washington. USA.
2005.Catalogue." ALARCA, Ceramics of 54 Contemporary Artists".
2005.Honorary member. Alumni Board. School of Design. U. Anáhuac, México City.
2004. Catalogue, V.V. Glass Proposals
1997. Scholarship at Penland School of Arts and Crafts. North Carolina, USA.
LECTURES & CONFERENCES
2017. Glass & Ceramics,. Art Faculty, Universidad de Oporto. Portugal.
2016. Glass and Aluminum Sculpture for the Community Garden “at Faro Tlahuac Together with artist Sarah Gilbert.
2016. "Urban Botanics"Children Workshop. With artist Sarah Gilbert. At La CBDA Art and Community Center. Mexico City.
2014. Preservation of Cultural Heritage through Contemporary Art at the ceramic community of Atzompa, Oaxaca.
2013. Workshop Blossom. Galeria Mexicana de Diseño, México DF.
2009. Creating a Common History. Artist, Designers and Craft people conference. Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oax, México.
2007." Mexican Glass, from Precolombian to present times" Conference at " 8th International Blown Glass Sympossium" Berezhany, Ukraine.
2006. Conference "3er. Congreso Internacional Diseñar para la Humanidad: Objetos Cotidianos" at ART & CRAFT Museum (MAP), Mexico City, Historical Center.
2005. Lecture on “glass techniques applied to architecture” for the exhibit “GAUDI: architect and artist”. San Idelfonso Museum. Mexico City, Historical Center.
2005. Lecture on “Organic Forms in Blown glass” for the exhibit “GAUDI: architect and artist”. San Idelfonso Museum. Mexico City, Historical Center.
2005. Conference panel “Designing for the senses”, School of Design. Universidad Anáhuac, México City.
