Mariana Vega is the Founder and Director of Colectivo Aurora Gallery.

Originally from the city of San Miguel Allende, Mariana began her artistic work as an apprentice in a photographic studio at the age of 18 and then studied plastic arts at the University of Guanajuato, specializing in photography. Since then, she has been dedicated to artistic production. 

Mariana began her work as a gallery owner and independent cultural manager in 2014. She has participated as an exhibitor in numerous collective and individual exhibitions in Mexico, Austria and as a curator in San Miguel Allende, CDMX and various cities of Guanajuato. Currently in San Miguel Allende, Gto. Her own work is the result of the mixture of the different plastic arts she dominates such as photography, painting, sculpture, audiovisual, and illustration. Her paintings arise from the research and photographic documentation of different concepts with such varied themes as landscape, ecological preservation, oral tradition, dance, human psyche, the obscene, childhood, daily life, environmental conservation, sexuality, etc. Her practice is structured and classified into a wide range of techniques: from bright colors to grays, with different line and texture treatments, allowing for continual experimentation.

 In an attempt to share the experience of the sublime with the viewer, she reveals her own memories, events, fantasies, concerns and fears.  Mariana’s work often exposes what most often goes unnoticed, always questioning the fragility and strength of the human being in this ephemeral and banal world.