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Carolina Ayala Aguilar <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Mexico City in 1986, she currently lives and works in Yucat\u00e1n. Her journey into painting began in architecture and design, which still shapes how she builds spaces, moods, and scenes in her art. She studied Architecture and earned a Master\u2019s degree in Product Design and Innovation at Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, later completing a Master of Science in Architectural Lighting at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While studying in Sweden, she explored how light can tell stories and used watercolor to create a project about forced migration from Syria to Sweden. This project was a turning point, inspiring her to use art to reveal hidden realities. After working as an architect in Germany, she returned to Mexico. The isolation of the pandemic became another key moment, prompting her to invent imaginary worlds where daily life, nature, and fiction come together. Since then, painting has become the focus of her professional practice. Her work shifts fluidly among abstraction, figuration, and surrealism. She draws inspiration from coincidences, unexpected encounters, dreams, and subtle hints that suggest more beneath the surface. With humor, delicacy, and mystery, she creates clue-filled scenes that invite viewers to imagine their own stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Her work has appeared in many exhibitions in recent years. In 2025, she joined other artists in Selva y agua para la vida<\/em> at the main gallery of the Jos\u00e9 Pe\u00f3n Contreras Theater in M\u00e9rida. In 2023, she was part of a group show with the Van Gogh Art Gallery in Madrid and the International Contemporary Art Fair in Monaco. In 2022, she contributed to the exhibition Migrar, todas las miradas<\/em> at the M\u00e9rida City Museum. That year, she also gave a talk and held a solo exhibition called Death and Other Realities in Art<\/em>. In 2021, she was a finalist in the Camaradas Mex-UK art competition, organized by the Embassy of Mexico in the United Kingdom. She has continued to learn through watercolor workshops with Agust\u00edn Gonz\u00e1lez and acrylic painting sessions with Ariel Guzm\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her painting explores the invisible layers of reality: stories hidden within objects, coincidences that feel like clues, and possibilities that can arise from seemingly minor decisions. She seeks to spark the viewer’s curiosity about things we do not see, yet may nonetheless exist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2017 – 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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M.C. Architectural Lighting Design
Kungliga Tekniska H\u00f6gskolan, Sweden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2013 – 2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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M. Industrial Design and Product Innovation
Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2004 – 2010<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Architecture
Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, M\u00e9xico.
Lighting Design.
Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Acrylic Painting Workshop – M. Ariel Guzm\u00e1n \/ Galer\u00eda Dos Mundos
Drawing and Watercolor – M. Agust\u00edn Gonz\u00e1lez \/ Agust\u00edn Galer\u00eda<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Death and Other Realities in Art<\/em>, solo exhibition and talk,
Decu Downtown Hotel. Merida, Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Open house<\/em>, Galer\u00eda Casa Jaguara. Merida, Mexico.
\u200bBrit Fest<\/em>, Galer\u00eda 2Mun2. Merida, Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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50 x 60 x 54,<\/em> Galer\u00eda 2Mun2. Merida, Mexico.
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2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Summer Exhibition 2024<\/em>, Lux Perpetua. Merida, Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Colores para la Paz<\/em>, Alianza Francesa. Merida, Mexico.
8 abstracciones en 2 Mundos<\/em>, Galer\u00eda 2Mun2. Merida, Mexico.
\u200bInternational Contemporary Art Fair<\/em>, Espace Fontvieille. Principality of Monaco.
Illusion<\/em>, Van Gogh Art Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
\u200b Yucat\u00e1n celebra a Francia<\/em>, Alianza Francesa. Merida, Mexico.
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Migrar, todas las miradas<\/em>, Museo de la Ciudad. Merida, Mexico.
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2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Finalist Camaradas Mex-UK Art Competition\/ Embassy of Mexico in the United
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Carolina Ayala Aguilar  Born in Mexico City in 1986, she currently lives and works in Yucat\u00e1n. Her journey into painting began in architecture and design, which still shapes how she builds spaces, moods, and scenes in her art. She studied Architecture and earned a Master\u2019s degree in Product Design and Innovation at Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico y … Leer m\u00e1s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-361","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroayala.com\/wpcaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroayala.com\/wpcaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroayala.com\/wpcaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroayala.com\/wpcaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroayala.com\/wpcaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/caroayala.com\/wpcaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/caroayala.com\/wpcaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/361\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroayala.com\/wpcaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}