Bio | Mayte Alquicira

b. 1991, Mexico City, Mexico | Lives and works in McKinney, TX

Mayte Alquicira is a Mexican-born, Texas-based mixed media artist whose work explores the balance between structure and surrender through abstraction. Influenced by the women of Abstract Expressionism, she approaches each piece as a study in control, curiosity, and expansion.

Raised between Mexico City and Morelia, Alquicira developed an early fascination with color and the way it communicates emotion beyond words. Her studies in Arts and Culture at the Rome Business School deepened her appreciation for the relationship between classical balance and contemporary freedom, ideas that continue to shape her visual language today.

Her paintings have been exhibited internationally in Spain, Italy, Mexico, and the United States, including shows at Galería Azur in Madrid, Villa Giulia in Rome, and Industrious in Dallas.

Alongside her art practice, Alquicira has built a career as a marketing strategist in the film industry, leading marketing strategies that connect stories to people for one of the world’s largest cinema companies. Named among the Top 50 Women in Global Cinema, she applies the same balance of analysis and intuition that defines her creative process: bridging data, storytelling, and emotion in both her professional and artistic work.

She views creativity as a form of calibration: a dynamic state where control meets patience, planning meets awareness, and vision meets the willingness to let go.

Artist Statement

My work explores the reconciliation between structure and surrender. Through abstraction, I study how the creative process mirrors the human experience of growth where curiosity, patience, and awareness transform control into movement.

I am drawn to abstraction because it pushes me to balance planning with trust. My compositions often begin with intuitive color mixing that gradually evolves into intentional choices. I work with acrylics (heavy body, fluid and diluted), inks, oil sticks and pastels, creating layers that hold both precision and spontaneity. The materials invite me to engage rather than dominate, to direct without forcing.

Movement plays an essential role in my process. Between layers, I pause to practice a short sequence of yoga postures. These moments help me quiet my thoughts and reconnect with the sensations that guide my decisions. When I return to the canvas, I notice how stillness alters my perception, how color, texture, and gesture find a new rhythm. This cyclical flow of focus and release becomes the emotional pulse of the work.

Recently, I have been incorporating fabric and stitching, introducing a tactile language rooted in memory. These elements are a quiet tribute to my mother’s creative influence and to the continuity between precision and tenderness.

Painting, for me, is both an introspective and deliberate act. It reflects my effort to balance opposing instincts: the need to plan and the desire to let go. In this negotiation, I discover movement, tension, and calm existing all at once.

Ultimately, my work captures the ongoing dialogue between what can be controlled and what must be allowed to unfold. Each piece is an invitation to witness that evolving equilibrium, the shifting space where structure softens, chaos organizes, and transformation quietly takes place.

  • SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    2024 Founders, Kendra Scott x Nest, Allen, TX

    2021 Featured Emerging Artist of the Month, Nina Berenato Studio, Austin, TX

    2019 Reflections on Flow, Industrious, Dallas, TX

  • GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    2022 Eclipse, Galería Azur, Madrid, Spain

    2021 Happily Ever Sip & Collect, Shannon Brewing, Keller, TX

    2018 Waves, The Carmen Hotel, Playa del Carmen, Mexico

    2017 Diversity, Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy

    2016 Colors, ORIGO Gallery, Morelia, Mexico

  • SPECIAL PROJECTS

    2022 Provided 6 Painting Summer Workshops, Make Carrolton, TX

    2022 She Makes Podcast — Guest Speaker, “Pivoting in Business”

    2022 House & Garden Magazine (Condé Nast) — Print Feature

    2021 Joined Where Are The Women Artists online collective

    2021 The Wine & Chisme Podcast — Interview, “Latin American Owned Businesses”

    2020 Voyage Dallas — “Local Artists to Watch”

    2020 Mosaic Makers Collective — Dallas, TX (Group Market Showcase)