Fina Ferrara
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Selected Publications and Press:
2025
→ La Niña de la Casa, Point Pleasant Publishing, Vol. 16 (text by Michael Hanna)
→ Why Performance Art Matters V.2, Point Pleasant Publishing, Vol. 15
→ Artist Feature, Point Pleasant Publishing, Vol. 14
→ Gold List: Top Contemporary Artists of Today, Art Market Magazine
2024
→ Top Contemporary Artists to Watch in 2024, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
→ Work review by Marta Puig, Chief Editor, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
2023
→ Faces of Peace, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
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Selected Exhibitions:
2025
→ Pathos, Indra Gallery, London, UK
→ Fragmentations of Identity, Revolú Gallery, New York, USA
→ Figures, CICA Museum, South Korea
→ Parasitó, Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy, Mumbai, India, (Vedica Art Studios & Gallery in collaboration with the Consulate of Mexico in Mumbai)
→ On Site Virtual Exhibition, Artwork Archive 2024
→ 4th Nuevo León State Art Award, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico
→ Boring Entertainment, SilentSister Production, Casa Versalles, Mexico City 2023
→ Rome Future Week, Rossocinabro Gallery, Rome, Italy 2022
→ Es Difícil Amarte, LCExpos Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico 2021
→ The Secret Garden, Venice Contemporary International Art Fair, Venice, Italy
→ Multi, Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, TX, USA
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Selected Awards:
2025
→ Collectors Art Prize: Art Legends of Our Time — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
2024
→ Future of Art Global Masterpiece Award — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
→ Premiere Artist Prize — Contemporary Art Station, Barcelona
2023
→ International Prize Leonardo da Vinci: The Universal Artist — Fondazione Effetto Arte, Italy
→ Collectors Art Prize — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
2022
→ Faces of the Peace Art Prize — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
2021
→ Power of Creativity Art Prize — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
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Born in 1983 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, Fina Ferrara has transformed herself from a celebrated classical ballet dancer into a bold multidisciplinary performance and video artist, fusing her rigorous training with radical new forms of expression. Her art is an unrelenting exploration of movement, physical, emotional, and conceptual, combining dance, theater, sculpture, video, and installation to create works that resonate with both power and poetry.
Ferrara often blurs the line between performer and viewer, drawing audiences into a space of visceral reflection and emotional resonance. Disturbed by the ways human boundaries are often crossed or silenced, she transforms inner tension into acts of release and reflection. Through the body, she investigates processes of pain, purification, and rebirth, inviting the audience to witness change.
Ferrara’s creative process is deeply intuitive and rooted in personal experiences, yet it transcends autobiography to touch on collective narratives, especially those related to womanhood, vulnerability, and resistance. Whether holding a frozen heart in her hands or breaking wine glasses, she crafts images that linger in the viewer’s psyche.
Her art is a language of sensation and contradiction: between pain and beauty, intimacy and exposure, control and surrender. Guided by a belief in the transformative power of art, Ferrara sees performance not as reenactment, but as invocation, a way of revealing what usually remains hidden.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in cultural capitals such as London, Paris, New York, Venice, Rome, Madrid, South Korea, and Mumbai, as well as throughout Latin America. Ferrara’s dynamic practice, an immersive dialogue between action and poetry, invites audiences to reconsider the limits of expression, perception, and emotional truth.
