BIO
Ana Rocha (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1984) is an Afro-Brazilian visual artist based in Mexico City. Her work is defined by a vibrant, symbolic aesthetic that weaves together her cultural roots with a critical, poetic, and experimental approach.
Her pictorial process dialogues with what she defines as a mestiza identity, complex and deeply Brazilian. In her compositions, resources from European traditions of figurative abstraction intertwine with her own symbolic imagery, appropriated from an anthropophagic perspective, an artistic and historical Brazilian gesture that does not merely replicate what it inherits, but devours, transforms, and re-signifies it.
From this mixed-race consciousness, she explores the links between ancestral memory, the collective imagination, and sensory perception. Her practice has consolidated into a visual investigation of mestizaje as an aesthetic force, questioning colonial narratives and celebrating the plurality of her Afro-Indigenous heritage.
Her recent trajectory includes solo and group exhibitions in Mexico City and international virtual platforms, in spaces such as Proyectos Puente, La Bolivianita, and Revolú Gallery.
She lives and works in Mexico City.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 (Aug-Sept) · Galería Proyectos Puente, Mexico City, Mexico
Solo exhibition of the series Bacteria, Magnifying Glass of Life
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 (October) · I Bienal de Pintura Casa Serra, CENART, Mexico City, Mexico
Work “A Oca é a Casa do Curandeiro” selected for the I Bienal de Pintura Casa Serra.
2026 (August) · Expo-Venta · Flotar & Fundo Cicla, at JW Marriott Mexico City Polanco, Mexico City, Mexico
Group exhibition “Collection and Archive,” Flotar & Fundo Cicla
2026 (June) · Galería Proyectos Puente, Mexico City, Mexico
Group exhibition celebrating the gallery's 3rd anniversary.
2026 (February) · ART WEEK · 2nd Salón Colectivo, Galería Tallera Casa Pil, Mexico City, Mexico
2025-2026 (Nov-Jan) · Revolú Gallery, itinerant gallery (NY, CDMX, PR)
Virtual group exhibition “Fragmentation of Identity” at Revolú Gallery
Links: Revolú Gallery https://revolugallery.com/ / Online exhibition (link)
ART FAIRS
2026 (May) · Art Book Fair Osaka, Japan
Independent art publishing fair, Osaka, Japan. Booth by Flotar, https://flotar.co/
2026 (January) · Index Art Book Fair, Galería Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Independent art publishing fair, Mexico City, Mexico. Booth by Flotar, https://flotar.co/
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2026 (May) · “Archive of the Unseen” (book-object) · Art Book Fair Osaka, Japan
Curated by Ju Ci Reis (Flotar).
2026 (January) · “África Rosa” (scarf, silk print) · Index Art Book Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
Curated by Ju Ci Reis (Flotar).
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2026 (January) · Revolú Gallery, itinerant gallery (NY, CDMX, PR)
Best in Show Artist in Fragmentations of Identity (digital group exhibition), Revolú Gallery.