INDIRA URRUTIA

Indira Urrutia is a Chilean multidisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, migration, and social justice through textile art, installation, and found objects. Deeply influenced by her own experience as an immigrant, her practice is rooted in community engagement, incorporating oral histories and symbolically charged materials such as cassette tapes and copper wire.

She has exhibited internationally, with notable showcases at the Misk Art Institute (Saudi Arabia, 2024), the Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival (UAE, 2024), the Instituto Cervantes in Shanghai (2024), the Westbund Art & Design Fair (China, 2023), and the Drap-Art Festival in Barcelona. Her public installations and urban interventions encourage reflection and spontaneous interaction, as seen in Romantic Memory in Riyadh.

Urrutia has received prestigious recognitions, including artist residencies at the Misk Art Institute (2024) and the Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation (2023-2024), as well as honorary mentions for her contributions to cultural diversity in California. She has also built a strong career as an educator, collaborating with institutions such as the de Young Museum and the Berkeley Art Museum.

Her work reclaims craftsmanship as an act of resistance and healing, transforming everyday objects into narratives of displacement, identity, and human connection.