Juliana Plexxo - Series | Studio 46 Barcelona

Juliana Plexxo is a Colombian artist whose work delves into the essential dualism of existence, the reconnection with nature, and the spiritual dimension of the human being. Her visual language is grounded in metal engraving, a technique she has redefined and expanded through her residency at Studio 46 in Barcelona—formerly the workshop of 20th-century masters such as Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, and Richard Hamilton. Plexxo’s process is radical: she prints each plate only once and then destroys the matrix, turning every piece into a singular, irreproducible artifact—an act charged with symbolic weight, embodying death, transformation, and rebirth.

Educated between Latin America and Europe, she was named "Young Talent of the Year" by the University of Berkeley in California in 2022 for her ability to fuse visual art with philosophical depth. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, Paris, Austria, Barcelona, and Quito, as well as at major international art fairs and through monumental public murals.

In 2025, Plexxo presented her latest solo exhibition in Manhattan, New York, titled *NYC Meets Barcelona*, which received critical acclaim and was featured in Whitehot Magazine for its integration of traditional engraving with contemporary symbolism and mystical narrative.

A central pillar of her recent work is the series "Real Gold", a growing body of pieces that explores the return to what is sacred and essential: the human connection to the Earth, the ancestral wisdom of indigenous cultures, and spirituality as an antidote to digital overstimulation and disconnection. The works in Real Gold—engraved prints mixed with oil or acrylic—are more than visual compositions; they are fragments of a larger spiritual and ecological resistance.

Plexxo collaborates closely with Amazon Watch, a non-profit organization founded in 1996 that works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. The organization partners directly with Indigenous communities in South America to resist industrial destruction, defend land rights, and amplify Indigenous-led climate solutions. Through this partnership, Plexxo connects her artistic practice to tangible activism, channeling her message into action in defense of Latin America’s cultural and environmental heritage.

The spiritual and philosophical foundation of Plexxo’s work traces back to a defining moment in her childhood: witnessing a bullfight at the age of four. This encounter with life and death, masculinity and femininity, divinity and animality, became the birth of her artistic identity. Her signature brushstrokes—at once delicate and raw—echo human silhouettes and evoke the gaze of the bull, an animal that has become her totemic muse.

Juliana Plexxo does not merely produce art; she crafts legacy. Her journey is one of transforming the intimate into the universal, and the spiritual into living matter. Her art is not made to be simply observed, but to be felt, remembered, and ultimately, lived.