Patricia Arriola

Visual artist · Queretaro, Mexico

About

Visual artist with more than three decades of continuous practice centered on sculpture, printmaking, and painting. Her early training in San Miguel de Allende (1990s) has evolved through an uninterrupted process of studio research — from direct acid etching and experimental lithography to photogravure, Hikidashi and Raku ceramics, and ceramic enamel on clay and stone.

Her sculpture Mugartegui is part of the permanent collection of the Museo de Arte de Querétaro. In 2020 she received First Prize at the international printmaking competition Hommage à Trois (Associació Duana de les Arts, Barcelona), and in 2026 she was selected for the Enzo di Martino International Contemporary Printmaking Award (Casa Falconieri, Cagliari, Italy). Her work explores the body, memory, and matter at the intersection of sculpture, graphic arts, and literature.

International Awards & Distinctions

·2026 — Selected, Enzo di Martino International Contemporary Printmaking Award, Casa Falconieri, Cagliari, Italy (work: Entrelazados)
·2022, 2023 — International invited artist, II and III International Music and Fine Arts Education Symposium (SYMFES / UMGES), Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Turkey
·2020 — First Prize, Hommage à Trois International Printmaking Competition, Gianni Rodari category, Associació Internacional Duana de les Arts, Barcelona, Spain (work: Érase una vez)
·2019 — Sculpture Mugartegui acquired by the permanent collection of the Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Mexico
·2018 — Third Place, Exhibition in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico (work: Es o no es el sueño que olvidé antes del alba)

Solo Exhibitions

·2020 — Dos cuerpos, Galería Municipal Rosario Sánchez de Lozada, Queretaro, Mexico
·2019 — Dos cuerpos, Centro de Difusión Cultural Raúl Gamboa, Instituto Potosino de Bellas Artes, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
·2019 — Propiedad Privada, Galería de Cote, Casa vitivinícola, Cadereyta, Mexico
·2019 — El sueño de Calíope, Sisal Jurica, Queretaro, Mexico
·2017 — Reflexiones con Pedro Páramo — Diálogo Transitorio (with Mario García and Paz), Galerías Confesionales del Real Colegio de Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Queretaro, Mexico

Selected International Group Exhibitions

·2025 — 2 IBMB International Biennial of Miniature Art Graphics and Drawings, Bitola, Macedonia
·2025 — Thappa International Print Exchange, Karnal, India
·2024 — International Mail Art Printmaking Exhibition, Le Corbusier Centre, Chandigarh, India
·2024 — International Poster Exhibition, 50th Anniversary of Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Turkey · Women of the World, Sivas, Turkey
·2023 — De la fábula al cuento… de La Fontaine a Rodari, Biblioteca Sebastià Juan Arbó, La Ràpita, Catalonia, Spain
·2023 — First International Biennale of Miniature Art Graphics and Drawing, Bitola, Macedonia · Duplicate 2023 First International Mail Art Printmaking Exhibition, Karnal, India
·2023 — III International Virtual Exhibition & UMGES Invited Group Exhibition, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
·2021 — Exhibition of the Nine Hommage à Trois Award Winners, Biblioteca Nacional de Cataluña, Spain
·2020 — Exhibition of the First Hommage à Trois Competition, Iglesia Nova, Barcelona, Spain

Selected National Group Exhibitions

·2024 — México/España, Galería ML and Casa Galería Víctor López, Queretaro, Mexico
·2023 — El Bodegón más allá de la pausa, Galería Libertad, Queretaro, Mexico
·2022 — 8th Gala of the Museo de Arte de Querétaro, sculpture Los límites de mi lenguaje
·2021 — 33rd Anniversary, Museo de Arte de Querétaro · Ruta de Arte, Queso y Vino, Museo de Arte de Querétaro
·2020 — Gynes — Cartografía de la Estética Femenina, 32nd Anniversary of the Museo de Arte de Querétaro · ADN Tierra Ignota, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Queretaro · Campo Efímero, Galería Celeste Lomelí, Tequisquiapan
·2019 — El Eterno Mínimo, Museo de Arte de Querétaro · El Pintor y La Ciudad, Galería Municipal Rosario Sánchez de Lozada · First Printmaking Encounter of Queretaro, CEART
·2018 — Expo Arte Querétaro, Fundación Mascareñas, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
·2016–2017 — Colectivo Cuadro: Testigo 30–30 (Real Colegio de Santa Rosa de Viterbo & Galería Puerta de Oro del Bajío, Celaya); Reflexiones con Pedro Páramo (UTNG Campus Dolores Hidalgo and Victoria); Dos Vías (Casa del Diezmo, San Juan del Río)
·2016 — 130th Anniversary of Diego Rivera Collective Exhibition, Galería Salvador Zúñiga, Celaya · Gráfica Alternativa, Casa de Cultura de Celaya
·2015 — Pedro Páramo, Galería Código Áureo, Queretaro · De la Idea al Objeto, Galería Municipal Rosario Sánchez Lozada, Queretaro
·2013 — First Querétaro Biennial of Art Santangel · Workshop of Master Guillermo Puente Lomelí, Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro

Collections

·Sculpture Mugartegui, permanent collection, Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Mexico (2019)
·Permanent Collection, Ruta de Arte, Queso y Vino, Viñedos Freixenet, Queretaro, Mexico (2021)

Artistic Training (selection)

Sculpture and ceramics

·Ceramic enamel on clay and stone with Arch. Humberto Sereno, San Miguel de Allende, 2023
·Assembly with Arch. Bernardo Barquete, La Caja de Agua, Queretaro, 2021
·Hikidashi and RAKU Ceramics with Dan Marte and Luis Batres, Centro de las Artes de Querétaro, 2018–2019

Printmaking and graphic arts

·Continuous workshops at El Pez Soluble (Tequisquiapan) with José Rincón, Knut Pani, Vicente Vértiz Pani, Franco Manterola, and Ángeles Marcos: direct acid etching, experimental lithography, photopolymer photogravure, burnished aquatint, additive techniques, and lost plate, 2017–2022
·Contemporary Printmaking on Floral Paper with Adriana Marrufo Díaz, CEART, Queretaro, 2019
·Alternative Printmaking with Nunik Sauret, Casa de Cultura de Celaya, 2016
·Drawing and Linocut with Humberto Valdéz, Queretaro, 2016

Painting, drawing, and creative processes

·Painting with Master Guillermo Puente Lomelí, Queretaro, 2011–2014
·Production workshops with Jordi Boldó, Queretaro, 2015 and 2018
·From Idea to Object with Esmeralda Torres and Jordi Boldó, Queretaro, 2015
·Experimental Plastic — Light of the East on Creativity with Lucille Wong, Fábrica La Aurora, San Miguel de Allende, 2018
·Seminar on Modern and Contemporary Art (20th and 21st centuries) with Roberto González, Museo de Arte de Querétaro, 2017
·Art Market course, Instituto Mexicano de Valuaciones Artísticas e Históricas, Queretaro, 2019

Collective Projects

·Founding member, Colectivo Cuadro, Queretaro, Mexico, 2014 — present