Biography
Cecilia Beaven is a visual artist from Mexico City based in Chicago. Cecilia holds an MFA in Studio from SAIC which she coursed as a Fulbright scholar and a BFA with honors from ENPEG La Esmeralda (Mexico City). Cecilia’s multidisciplinary artwork—which includes murals, painting, drawing, animation, comics, and sculpture—has been shown in solo shows in Mexico City, Houston, and Chicago, and in group exhibitions in Mexico, the US, Colombia, Sweden, Italy, and Japan. She has painted murals in several cities such as Hiketa, Paris, Houston, Chicago, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Pachuca, Tepoztlan, and Tijuana, where she was commissioned to paint a segment of the border wall between Mexico and the US. Cecilia develops a speculative mythology with unique visual narratives questioning who gets to tell stories and define culture. The artist affirms her creative agency by modifying existing tales and mythology and seamlessly adding fiction and personal anecdotes. Cecilia has been awarded distinctions such as the Fulbright Scholarship, the Leroy Neiman Foundation Fellowship at Ox-Bow School of Art, and the Radicle Studio Residency at Hyde Park Art Center.
Instructional Areas
Drawing Foundations
Creative Practice and Research Interests
Drawing, Painting, Murals, Street Art, Comics, Narrative Art, Mythology, Speculative Mythology, Mexican Art, Latin American Art
Degrees
M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2019