Maite Autrique

I come from a small and conservative city in Mexico where few people are able to break free from the status quo. I grew up in a Catholic home with no room for freedom of ideas...I always felt different. While I was praised for my intelligence and academic success, my creative side was overlooked. That’s why I started painting only five years ago as meditation. I loved to see how the paint moved on the canvas, as if it were all my thoughts finally leaving my head.

As a teenager, unfairly stigmatised mental health struggles became my constant companions. In December of 2019 something terrible happened to me and I hit rock bottom. That's when I created the first painting where my style as an artist can be perceived, “The Cannibal”. This is when the story of how painting saved my life began, a story of resilience and acceptance.

I aim to depict my journey of self-acceptance through my art, embracing duality like day and night, hot and cold, blood and bright colours, always coexisting, just like yin and yang. My art represents the acceptance of the truest-self, which is my meaning of freedom. Each artwork can evoke either terror or joy, depending on where the viewer's focus is, mirroring their reality.
My purpose is to reflect the ...

2010-2015
Mexico City, México
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
Bachelor of Arts in Economics; Economic Policy Concentration. Interested in: Microeconimics & Industrial Org.

2024

"Los clores de la vida". Museo del Ferrocarril Jesús García Corona, San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, México.

"Mujeres en el Arte Colectivo" Tequis Art. Tequisquiapan, Querétaro de Arteaga, Mexico

"Mujeres en el Arte, Exposición de Semana Santa" Armadillo Mágico, Armadillo de los Infante, San Luis Potosí, México.


2023


Group Exhibition, “Mujeres en el arte, Cuarta exposición colectiva”, Museo del Ferrocarril Jesús García Corona, San Luis Potosí, México.

Group Exhibition, “25N Día Internacional de la Eliminación de La Violencia contra als muejres”, Club Libanés Potosino, San Luis Potosí, México.

Solo Exhibition, “Fragments of the Mind”, VAEO, San Luis Potosí, México.


2022

Group Exhibition, “Prominencia”, Sophart Galery, Polanco, México City, México.