Born in Mexico City 1998
Lives and works in Madrid
Montserrat Camargo is a Mexican visual artist and writer, currently based in Madrid.
In her practice Camargo combines language, textile and performance to build dispositifs for the regeneration of intimacy.
Drawing from her personal experience of displacement and estrangement with her mother tongue, she researches individual memories in order to archive intimacy and reactivate a space understood within the private; thus creating new forms of community. As a way of resistance in an internet era she recovers disappearing forms of intimacy, vernacular media and informal communication where language is not institutionalised. Within this frame, through repetition and prolonged duration, language becomes a current that passes through and exits her body turning into a material. As a result, the viewer often encounters a tension of a raw form, something almost half done, a bodily object where the presence of the artist still remains.
Emphasising joy and freedom she invites the audience to play with her by revealing secrets, stealing conversations, and reshaping gossip as a broadcast of intimacy; eventually, pushing us to interact with each other
Co-founder of COLECTIVO CHACAL
Studies
MA in Creative writing by Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (2023 – 2025)
BA in Fine Art by Minerva Academy, Groningen, Netherlands. (2017 – 2021)
Foundation year under the tutelage of Artist Alessa Esteban. Mexico City. (2016 – 2017)
Exhibitions
2026
Cese y desista. Solo Show. La Juan Gallery, Madrid.
XM2. Group show. Teatros del Canal, Madrid.
2025
Confesionario. Performance exhibited in an art festival. Art batallion, Madrid.
Lo que fue, lo que persiste, lo que transcurre. Group Show. OB Studio, Madrid.
2024
La dieta blanca. Group show. Obertura Carabanchel, Galeria Nueva, Madrid.
Katarsis. Collaborative performance. Amphitheater of Dikaia, Greece.
Roki’s house. Amphitheater of Dikaia, Greece
2023
Occupying another home – A self invented residency. Group Show. Zapadores Ciudad del Arte, Madrid, Spain.
2022
100x kunst in the Akerk. Group Show. Stipend awarded by Kunstpunt, Groningen, Netherlands.
Yo vivo aquí. Solo show. Heerz Tooya Gallery, Bulgaria.
2021
Jugando a la casita. Group Show. RAAHM, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
Detour. Graduation Show. Suikerfabriek, Groningen, Netherlands.
Green Lights. Group show. Herestraat 72, Groningen, Netherlands.
2020
Sentimental Preoccupations. Group show. Maydays, Groningen, Netherlands
1/3 2 4 3D. Curatorial practice show. Praediniussingel 59, Groningen, Netherlands.
2019
In Between. Grup Show. Amici Dell’Arte Galleria, Groningen, Netherlands.
Takes a Sip of Your Soul. MALM Collection, Loppersum.
2018
Stardust and Chicken Soup, 70th Anniversary of the Synagogue. Group Show. Synagogue, Groningen, Netherlands.
Residencies and awards
Hospital de artistas. La Juan Gallery, Madrid. (2025-2026)
CoTranspose Summer Residency. Dikaia, Greece. (2024)
ARV. International Residency. Vishovgrad, Bulgaria. (2022)
100x kunst in the Akerk. Stipend awarded by Kunstpunt. Groningen, Netherlands. (2022)
Stipend awarded by the municipality of Friesland. In collaboration with RAAHM, Leeuwarden. (2021)
Occupying Another Home A Self Invented Residency, in collaboration with Mila Jankovic. De Laan 26B, Groningen, Netherlands. (2021)
24-hour Artist Residency. SYB KUNSTHUIS, Friesland, Netherlands. (2020)
Artwords. NP3,Groningen, Netherlands. (2018)
Publications
XULANGA (art and literature magazine). Edited by COLECTIVO CHACAL. By monthly issue. (2025–present)
Los huecos. Essay featured in Revista Zun. (2026)
Molly Purple Sugar featured in the short story collection ‘De Ida y Vuelta, 12 relatos sobre viajes en el tiempo’. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (2023)
La danza de todo. Poetry collection. Casapaís, Uruguay. (2023)
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t. Graduation Thesis. Minerva Academy, Netherlands. (2021)
You Know How I Feel About Chicken Pieces. SYB Kusthuis Catalogue, Netherlands. (2020)