Biography

Born in Mexico City, Ileana is a professional in graphic communications and advertising. She studied in San Diego, CA. in the United States and later on she returned to Mexico City where she worked as a copywriter, graphic designer and creative director for several advertising agencies, until she realized she had a more artistic calling and a very strong feeling for painting and photography. She learned about painting techniques and engaged in developing and combining her photography and computer graphics skills through her visual expression. She is now an independent visual artist and photographer. Her work has been recognized and awarded internationally by Mobile Photo Awards, Mobile Camera Club, the Gala Awards (Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers), Tokyo International Foto Awards, Better Photography Magazine and was just recently nominated by Mobiography Awards for the best photographer of the year 2021. Her work has been exhibited in Brazil, Korea, United States, Hungary, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Turkey and Argentina. In 2017 she presented Fragmentos de Luz, her first solo exhibition in Mexico City. She has been featured and collaborated in some important blogs about mobile art and photography.

Through her work, she tries to evoke sensations. Her images are the combined inspiration of interweaved images and stories layered through her feelings and emotions. She appreciates the little things in life and aims to transmute them in emotional works that provoke connection and resonate with the collective.


Education

  • Graphic Communications, University of California San Diego, 1988.
  • Radio & TV Commercial Copywriting, Columbia School of Broadcasting, 1988.
  • Radio Announcer License A, Secretaría de Educación Pública, México, 1986.
  • Diplôme De Langue Française de Paris, Alianza Francesa de México, 1985.



Selected Solo Exhibitions


2017

Fragmentos de Luz, German Centre, CDMX, México.



Selected Group Exhibitions


2022

MIRA Mobile Prize Street Photography Black & White 2022 Exhibition. Porto, Portugal.

2022

MIRA Mobile Prize 2022 Exhibition. Porto, Portugal.

2021

Barcelona Foto Biennale. FotoNostrum, The Mediterranean House of Photography. Barcelona, Spain.

2021

Melancholia a FotoNostrum Exhibition, The Mediterranean House of Photography. Barcelona, Spain.

2020 

All Colors of the World, Palazzo di Città. Cagliari, Italy.

2019

The Beauty Myth Exhibition, Copernico Gallery, Milan, Italy.

2019

Mobile Camera Club. Colloque Mobile et Création Des Arts et Des Mobiles organisé par l’IRCAV-P3. Paris, France.

2018

Mobile Camera Club. Colloque Mobile et Création #foodporn: les mobiles du désir organisé par l’IRCAV-P3. Paris, France.

2018

Mobile: A juried international photography exhibition. PH21 Photography Gallery. Budapest, Hungary.

2017

Festival e Prêmio Latino Americano de Mobgrafia 2017. Museu da Imagem e Do Som. Sao Paolo, Brazil.

              


Awards


2022

PX3 Prix de la Photographie de Paris. Gold Winner in Fine Art. Paris, France.

2022

MIRA Mobile Street Photography Black & White Prize 2022 Exhibition. Porto, Portugal.

2022

MIRA Mobile Prize Shortlist 2022. MIRA Forum. Porto, Portugal.

2021

Mobiography Awards: Digital Art Honorable Mention and Street and Urban Honorable Mention. Mobiography Photographer of the year 2021 Nomination

2021

The World WidePhotography Gala Awards: 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers. Self Portrait Series Honorable Mention.

2021

The National Association of Digital Artists (naDA) International Competition "Images Of Resilience": First Price in the Digital Mixed Media Category. 

2021

10th Annual Mobile Photo Awards:  Self Portrait Honorable Mention, Fine Art Honorable Mention.

2021

Tokio International Foto Awards 2020: Fine Art/Collage Honorable Mention. Tokyo, Japan.

2020

Mobile Digital Art and Creativity Summit (MDAC 2020). Top 11 Winners. California, USA.

2020

The World WidePhotography Gala Awards: 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers. Women seen by Women and Cell Phone Categories Honorable Mentions.

2020

9th Annual Mobile Photo Awards: Self Portrait Honorable Mention

2019

8th Annual Mobile Photo Awards: Self Portrait 1st Price, Self Portrait Honorable Mention, Black and White Honorable Mention

2019

The World WidePhotography Gala Awards: 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers. Fine Art and Self Portrait Categories Honorable Mentions.

2018

7th Annual Mobile Photo Awards: Self Portrait Honorable Mention.


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