Paloma Contreras Lomas
Paloma Contreras Lomas (b. Mexico City, 1991) began her artistic training in the career of Visual Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, La Esmeralda (2011–15). Shortly after she joined the multidisciplinary collective Biquini Wax EPS (2016) and enrolled in the educational program SOMA (2016–18). The work of Contreras Lomas extends to different media such as video, writing, drawing and performance, as well as collective production, parallel to her personal research. Her work has been shown in places like Palais de Tokyo; FRAC Center Orléans; Museo Tamayo; kurimanzutto, among others. Currently, she uses horror and Latin-American sci-fi as a genre of artistic production. Contreras is represented by Pequod Co in Mexico City. She lives and works in Mexico City.