Biography

Juliana Plexxo is a Colombian artist whose work explores the essential duality of existence, the spiritual dimension of human life, and how, through feminine strength as a channeling force, a reconnection between humanity and nature can be achieved.

 

Her visual language is rooted in metal engraving, a technique she has radically redefined from her own studio, Studio 46 in Barcelona — a historic space linked to masters such as Miró, Dalí, and Chagall. Plexxo breaks with tradition and proposes a revolutionary vision of printmaking: each work is unique. The matrix is destroyed after a single impression, transforming every piece into an unrepeatable manifesto on death, transformation, and the power of rebirth. Her creative process challenges reproduction and reclaims the irreproducible as a symbol of identity.

 

Raised in Colombia within the world of bullfighting through her father — a renowned crime journalist assassinated by narcotrafficking violence in the 1990s — Juliana experienced from childhood the tension between fragility and courage. Violence forced her to emigrate to Ecuador, an experience that profoundly shaped her worldview. From an early age, she developed a deep fascination with the mysticism of the bull and the symbolic ritual between life and death. The bull became her central muse: a symbol of nobility, beauty, sacrifice, and indomitable spirit. The recurring eyes and profiles in her work function as emotional traces of memory and as marks of her origin.

 

In Ecuador, she lived a decisive period that strengthened her connection with nature and ancestral cultures, especially in Otavalo and the Amazon. There, her devotion to volcanoes was also born, seen as sacred forces of creation and destruction — particularly Cotopaxi, another of her great muses. She later settled in Spain, where for over a decade she consolidated her technical mastery and fused her life experiences into a unique language that expands one-of-a-kind engraving into mixed media, material experimentation, and spiritual expression.

 

Educated between Latin America and Europe, Plexxo was named “Young Talent of the Year 2022” by the University of Berkeley (California). Her work has been exhibited internationally in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Paris, Madrid, Monaco, and Luxembourg, in addition to participating in art fairs and creating monumental large-scale murals. Inspired by the mythical force of the bull and speaking from a strong feminine voice, Plexxo creates portals into memory, emotion, and the human essence — what she calls “the real gold.”