2024  On Any Given Day II. Harboufront Centre. Toronto, ON

2023  Persisting Multiplicities. Doris McCarthy Gallery. Toronto, ON

2023  Until Next Time: Sheridan Graduate Show, Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON

2023 NCECA Juried Student Exhibition. DAAP Galleries. Cincinnati

2022 Remnants, Lalani Jennings and Birch Contemporary. Toronto

2022 Panamerican Colours, Gallery 1313. Toronto

2022 Constellations 1, Lalani Jennings. Guelph

2021 Corpus Terra, Bayside Gallery. Toronto

2021  Regeneration, Bayside Gallery. Toronto           

2020  Harvesting Bones, Artscape Wychwood Barns. Toronto

2020 100 Vases, The Shop, Toronto

 

 

 

 

Mariana Bolaños Inclán is a Mexican ceramic sculptor based in Toronto. She has exhibited her work in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Focusing on art with a social purpose, she works as a facilitator in community programs around Toronto and the GTA. Mariana studied visual arts in Mexico and obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts when she moved to Canada. She graduated from the Ceramics program at Sheridan College in 2023 and is currently an artist-in-residence at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto.

 

Artist Statement

My body of work engages with themes of migration, social justice and gender equality. I am inspired by nature and nature’s cycles of life and death as symbols of resilience; here, I am able to convey the stories of where I come from and who I am as a woman and as an immigrant.  My experience with ceramics began in Mexico extracting clay directly from nature. Drawing on these memories has made the language of the raw material important in my work. Paying close attention to the roundness of the form, the malleability of clay and the building of textures on the surface, my work alludes to life and fertility.