Un Mismo Cielo: Entre Washington y Ciudad Juárez | Paloma Vianey

Un Mismo Cielo: Entre Washington y Ciudad Juárez (The Same Sky: Between Washington and Ciudad Juárez) presents Mexican artist Paloma Vianey’s exploration of connection across borders. Through eight diptychs, Vianey brings together landscapes from both cities, creating visual dialogues that unfold beneath a shared horizon.

The exhibition offers a transborder perspective that highlights the everyday, historical, and cultural ties linking these distant yet intertwined places. Through these layered pairings, Vianey invites viewers to engage urban space with heightened sensitivity and to recognize, like the landscapes that shape the work, the invisible threads that connect us beyond borders.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Paloma Vianey is an interdisciplinary artist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. She earned a BA in Art History from The University of Texas at El Paso and an MFA from Cornell University. She has received grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (2020, 2021, 2023), and the National Fund of the Arts in Mexico (2020). Vianey received a scholarship from the Institute of Mexicans in the Exterior (2018), was awarded the Municipal Youth Award in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (2019), and the John Hartell Graduate Award at Cornell University.

In 2018 Vianey realized a large-scale public art installation (22 ft x 70 ft) on the Americas-Cordova International Bridge along the U.S.-Mexico border. From 2021 to 2022 she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Antonio Gala Foundation in Cordoba, Spain. Vianey has exhibited her work at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, the Antonio Gala Foundation, Amos Eno Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, the Mexican Consulate at El Paso Texas, El Paso Museum of Art, The Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, and the Archeology and History Museum of El Chamizal. She currently teaches Painting and Drawing at George Mason University.

In 2025, she was the guest artist for the Mexican Cultural Institute DC's Día de Muertos celebration, creating paintings for the ofrenda dedicated to four icons of Mexican culture: Juan Gabriel, the eternal "Divo de Juárez" and symbol of love and music; Rosario Castellanos, the powerful voice of Mexican literature and diplomacy; Luis Barragán, the architect who transformed light and color into art; and Remedios Varo, the surrealist painter who invites us to dream.