Jimena Horta is a Mexican Caribbean artist based in Cleveland, OH. Born in 1992 in Cancún and raised on Cozumel Island (MX), she has lived in different countries throughout her career, including Mexico, England, Spain and the United States. She holds a Bachelors in Communication and Filmmaking from the Universidad Anáhuac and a Masters Program in Photography & Artistic Projects from PhotoEspaña.
She has complementary studies in Visual Arts, Photojournalism, and Poetry. During the last five years, she has been doing a self study of Psychology and exploring different therapeutic methods which have been key to her creative and photographic practices.
Her background in Photojournalism has influenced her recent projects exploring psychological processes, mental health, intimacy, self discovery and introspection using rhetorical figures in literature translated in images. It is mostly related to her own internal dialogues reflected on the outside world.
Her photographic practice is based on everyday life, trial and error, the intuitiveness and visceral way of making photographs. She has found through photography a way to fail and make mistakes with the chance of transforming it to something that has a meaning beyond its own nature.
She is convinced that the personal is collectively felt, and that from addressing these vulnerabilities one can reach strength to build and transform better realities and societies.
In 2021, her project SÍIHIL was selected by the International Foundry Photojournalism Program along with several photographers from all over the world.
She currently works as a TeachArtsOhio Grant Artist in Residence in Cleveland, in partnership with Cleveland Print Room, as well as a freelance photographer.
Her texts have been published in the education based electronic magazine "Pálido Punto de Luz" in Mexico.
Her work has been shown and made part of private collections in Mexico, Chile, Spain and the United States.
Education
2023: How to Turn Your Journal Into a Self-Empowerment Tool Workshop: Honorary Kin
2023: Grant Writing Workshop with Sara Terry: VII Academy
2022: Sem[a]nario de Fotografía: Alberto Báez Munguía
2022: Horizontes Poéticos: La Hoja Poesía Viva
2021: Photojournalism Workshop: Foundry
2020: Photographic and Writing Lab: Artist Elizabeth Casasola
2020: Creative Writing Workshop: Malvestida!
2019: Masters in Photography, Theories and Artistic Projects: PhotoEspaña
2018: Curso Profesional de Fotografía: EFTI
2017: Photojournalism Workshop: Foundry
2017: Bachelors Degree in Communication and Filmmaking: Universidad Anáhuac
2016: Heart of Mexico Narrative Journalism Immersion: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México & University of North Texas
2012: Visual Arts: Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG)
Group Exhibitions
2023: Leila's Dirty 30 POPUP (Cleveland, Ohio)
2020: Revelaciones (Santiago, Chile)
2020: Encuentros en Tiempo Presente (Madrid, Spain)
2019: Simbiosis (Mexico City)
2018: Hypermnesia (Mexico City)
2017: X’manikté (Mérida, MX)
2014: Paradojas (Mérida, MX)
2013: Fantasmas Urbanos (Mérida, MX)
Solo Exhibitions
2023: SÍIHIL (Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH)
2023: SÍIHIL (Cleveland Print Room, Cleveland, OH)
2021: SÍIHIL (Museo de la Isla, Cozumel, MX)
2016: Cuba: El Último Encuentro (Universidad Anáhuac México Norte, Mexico City)