ABOUT
BIO
hijadelacoca* is a Peruvian visual artist holding a Bachelor’s degree in Fine and Visual Arts, with a specialization in Textile Conservation and Restoration from the National Autonomous University of Fine Arts of Peru.
She has received grants and participated in artist residencies such as Women Sustain the Pandemic (BicaPlataforma, Brazil, 2022) and FAR Residency (Argentina, 2025). Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries such as Fisura and Cholo Terco, and internationally in exhibitions including MyLoveisYourLove at the Everywoman Biennial (London, 2021) and Entre el pretexto y el post texto at Arte Actual FLACSO (Ecuador, 2024). Her work has also been featured on platforms such as Best of PhotoVogue (Italy, 2022), MAMI —Musea by Coding Rights— (USA, 2019), and (In)justice Reproductive at MSH Paris Nord (France, 2024). She was a finalist for the National Contemporary Art Prize of the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (ICPNA), exhibited at Espacio ICPNA San Miguel (Peru, 2025).
Her practice also includes facilitating workshops and developing collective processes in Peru and abroad. Since 2018, she has worked as a feminist activist and performance organizer in public spaces as part of the collective Collera Red, seeking to generate political impact and promote denunciation as a driver of social change in Peruvian society.
hijadelacoca* is a Peruvian visual artist holding a Bachelor’s degree in Fine and Visual Arts, with a specialization in Textile Conservation and Restoration from the National Autonomous University of Fine Arts of Peru.
She has received grants and participated in artist residencies such as Women Sustain the Pandemic (BicaPlataforma, Brazil, 2022) and FAR Residency (Argentina, 2025). Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries such as Fisura and Cholo Terco, and internationally in exhibitions including MyLoveisYourLove at the Everywoman Biennial (London, 2021) and Entre el pretexto y el post texto at Arte Actual FLACSO (Ecuador, 2024). Her work has also been featured on platforms such as Best of PhotoVogue (Italy, 2022), MAMI —Musea by Coding Rights— (USA, 2019), and (In)justice Reproductive at MSH Paris Nord (France, 2024). She was a finalist for the National Contemporary Art Prize of the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (ICPNA), exhibited at Espacio ICPNA San Miguel (Peru, 2025).
Her practice also includes facilitating workshops and developing collective processes in Peru and abroad. Since 2018, she has worked as a feminist activist and performance organizer in public spaces as part of the collective Collera Red, seeking to generate political impact and promote denunciation as a driver of social change in Peruvian society.
STATEMENT
I’m María Lucianna Aguilar (hijadelacoca*), a Peruvian artist whose practice moves between textile processes, archival research, installation, and drawing. My work explores how bodies carry memory, illness, political violence, and inherited histories,transforming medical imagery, domestic materials, and personal archives into tactile forms that question how bodies are classified, represented, and remembered.
Growing up in the periphery of Lima within a female-centered environment shaped my understanding of care, intimacy, and collective experience. Histories of illness, reproductive violence, and migration inform my investigation of the body through textile practice, while my paternal Aymara heritage from the Peruvian Altiplano influences my relationship to materiality, memory, and landscape as living archive.
In recent years, my practice has expanded beyond embroidery into installation, spatial interventions, organic materials, digital coding aesthetics, and archival structures. I approach textile not only as a material or technique, but as a social and political language through which histories of labor, ethnicity, community, and collective memory become embedded and transmitted. Through stitching, layering, repetition, and material experimentation, I explore textile as a structure capable of connecting bodies, territories, and lived histories.
I’m María Lucianna Aguilar (hijadelacoca*), a Peruvian artist whose practice moves between textile processes, archival research, installation, and drawing. My work explores how bodies carry memory, illness, political violence, and inherited histories,transforming medical imagery, domestic materials, and personal archives into tactile forms that question how bodies are classified, represented, and remembered.
Growing up in the periphery of Lima within a female-centered environment shaped my understanding of care, intimacy, and collective experience. Histories of illness, reproductive violence, and migration inform my investigation of the body through textile practice, while my paternal Aymara heritage from the Peruvian Altiplano influences my relationship to materiality, memory, and landscape as living archive.
In recent years, my practice has expanded beyond embroidery into installation, spatial interventions, organic materials, digital coding aesthetics, and archival structures. I approach textile not only as a material or technique, but as a social and political language through which histories of labor, ethnicity, community, and collective memory become embedded and transmitted. Through stitching, layering, repetition, and material experimentation, I explore textile as a structure capable of connecting bodies, territories, and lived histories.