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XIMENA MEDINA SANCHO
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Ximena Medina Sancho
Santiago, Chile
She holds a BA of Fine Arts degree, with a specialization in Painting, from the Universidad de Chile, and a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. She was a member of the historic Taller 99 in Santiago, where she trained in traditional printmaking techniques. It was within this collective and creative environment that she developed her practice as a printmaker.
She has further expanded her artistic training through a range of specialized workshops, residencies, and printmaking courses in both Chile and Spain.
She has participated in numerous international printmaking biennials and exhibitions across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Her work has received international recognition, including a Prize Nomination at the 12th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Japan (2023); an Encouragement Award at the 11th Hida Takayama International Contemporary Woodblock Prints Triennale, Japan (2020); selection for the National Art Acquisition Program organized by Chile’s Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage (2020); and an Honorable Mention at the Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition, Japan (2019), among other distinctions.
She has been awarded grants for printmaking residencies, including those at Centro de Arte Alfara Gráfica in Salamanca, Spain (2019 and 2025), and Atelier Empreinte in Luxembourg (2024), where she was also invited to lead a woodcut workshop during her residence.
Her work is held in national and international collections, including the University Museum of Printmaking at the University of Playa Ancha in Valparaíso, Chile; the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints of the National Library of Spain; and the Guanlan Print Art Museum, China, among others.
Parallel to her artistic production, between 1997 and 2018 she has carried out extensive work as a conservator and restorer in the field of conservation of photographic heritage in national public and private institutions. She has been awarded a scholarship in 2008 and 2011 by Fondart to carry out specialization stays in conservation and restoration.
She currently lives and works between Madrid and Santiago de Chile.
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Her work explores the relationship between landscape, territory, and identity. Through her artistic practice, she reflects on the fragility and beauty of natural environments, which are constantly threatened by human activity as well as by the forces of nature itself.
She works with printmaking techniques, particularly large-scale woodcut, producing hand-printed works. She also uses drawing and the creation of artist’s books as forms of expresión.
Her most recent projects focus on vulnerable endemic species from northern and southern Chile.
Fieldwork lies at the core of her creative process. Each journey into natural areas becomes a sensory and contemplative experience—an act of observation, connection, and documentation that is later translated into works on wood, metal, and paper.
Her work invites viewers to reflect on the natural environments that we can still enjoy today and from which we can draw spiritual nourishment, in a world undergoing constant transformation.