Catwoman Minerva Valencia from Puebla works as a nanny in New York she sends 400 dollars a week by Dulce Pinzón

Color photograph/ C-Print, 11" x 14"

About Dulce Pinzón (b. Mexico City)

Dulce defines herself as "A free soul who uses art to inspire others to be."

Visual artist, curator, manager, cultural entrepreneur, activist and mother.
Dulce Pinzón is particularly interested in issues of social justice and activations that generate positive repercussions at the collective conscious level and legislation. She has worked in campaigns for the struggle for labor rights in New York together with former attorney general Elliot Spitzer and from the United Nations in creating cultural products for the dissemination of information for the development and democratization of Spanish-speaking countries.

Currently her main interest is focused on cultural, environmental and gender issues through her personal, curatorial and museographic projects. She studied Communication Sciences at the University of the Americas Puebla and photography at Indiana University in Pennsylvania. In 1995, she moved to New York where she studied photography at the International Center of Photography, Film at New York University, Labor Law at Dowling College, Long Island New York and Curatorial Seminar located at the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City.

Her work is inserted in a line of photography that seeks to build the image, does not capture with her camera what is in reality, but "invents" a new one; For this, she makes use of references of high culture or popular culture where citation is important and she can do it with painting, drawing, conceptual art diagrams, advertising, cinema; or even making reference to other photographs. Her work has been exhibited, published and collected internationally. She has been multi-awarded and nominated for her work as in the prestigious photography award: Prix Pictet, the Ford Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts; her first book "The real History of Superheroes" was published by Editorial RM with support from Coinversiones Culturales del Fonca in three languages: Spanish, English and French. Dulce's second book of Author was published in 2018 by Troconi and Letayf publishing house and was mentioned by Revista CODIGO as one of the 8 most relevant books by artists in the history of art.

In December 2015 the magazine FORBES considered her among the 50 most creative Mexicans in the world. Dulce was a member of the National Endowment for the Arts Creators of FONCA from 2014 to 2017, tutor of Young Creators and jury in multiple art competitions worldwide; in 2019 Plataforma ArtBase opens a physical space gallery in the city of Puebla whose objective is to link national and international emerging artists and with institutions and art enthusiasts; accompanying the creator in his artistic production and developing strategies for dissemination, promotion, sale, advice with collectors and management of individual and inter-institutional projects at national and global level.

She has been creative director of Iluminemos al Atoyac (collateral event of the Civil Association "Dale la Cara al Atoyac", which is based on an auction of light pieces whose cause is the raising of funds for the Association in the attempt to save the Atoyac River) also focused on the development of curatorial projects for festivals such as: ArtSouterrain (installation of international contemporary art in architectural and historic public spaces as well as in the subway of Montreal), Espacio México in Montreal and art galleries in Mexico City. Dulce currently lives and works with her two children between Montreal and Mexico.