Marilyn Boror Bor
Marilyn Boror Bor (b. 1984, Guatemala) is an Indigenous Maya-Kaqchikel artist working across multiple media, including painting, photography, printmaking, installation, and performance art.
Her research focuses on an ongoing exploration of identity as something shaped and regulated by context; consequently, much of her work centers on identifying racist, patriarchal, and colonial structures embedded in contemporary cultural forms—particularly those that underpin the construction of contemporary Latin American history.
In this regard, her work seeks to expose the fissures within a colonial system of epistemological representation that maintains territorial control over language—whether spoken or graphic—to preserve power. Her artistic projects therefore focus on constant analysis and critique aimed at preserving and reclaiming Indigenous languages, alongside the ways of thinking and feeling embodied in their cosmogonies.
She focuses on the power of words to trigger cultural meanings and questions regarding identity; her work is a call to reclaim the present by understanding an ancient past that has been rendered invisible and fragmented, utilizing both the spoken word and their own body as a political space for denunciation and resistance.
She has participated in major international biennials, including the Aichi Triennale, Japan (2025); the 13th Leandre Cristòfol Art Biennial, Barcelona (2025); the 35th São Paulo Biennial (2023); Bienal Sur, Buenos Aires (2022); and multiple editions of the Paiz Art Biennial in Guatemala (2014, 2016, 2021, 2023). Her work has also been exhibited internationally across Latin America, Europe, Asia, and North America.
Her artistic residencies include Art Omi, Lago Unam, Hangar, Barcelona, Spain (2025); Fundación Ama Amoedo (FAARA), Uruguay (2023); ARTE-UNAM, Mérida, Yucatán (2022); satis.FACTORY Casa (2022) and Espira/Espora, Nicaragua (2013, 2014, 2016). She has delivered lectures at institutions such as Cornell University; the Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia; Museo Amparo, Mexico; and Museo Reina Sofía, Spain.
Her work is held in significant collections including Museo Reina Sofía, Spain; Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Chile; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá; and Kadist Collection. In 2023, she was selected for Phaidon Art: The Next Generation as one of the most innovative contemporary artists worldwide.
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