About

Ximena is an artist and polar scientist. She has participated in five polar scientific expeditions.Two in the high Arctic (2022 and 2023) and three in the Antarctic (2019, 2020, 2023) led by the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH). She has exhibited her artistic and scientific work in Mexico, Chile, New York and Egypt. 

The work of  Ximena goes beyond art and science.

In February 2023, she and a group of young Mexican scientists founded APECS Mexico to promote polar regions and to inspire the next generation of Mexican polar scientists. Moreover, she participated actively at COP26 (Glasgow, 2021) and COP27 (Sharm el Sheik, 2022), where she and another young Mexican scientist, Palmira Cuellar, achieved the addition of Mexico to the high-level group "Ambition on melting ice on sea-level rise and mountain water resources (AMI)" led by Chile and Iceland.

All prints are special editions from scientific expeditions in the Antarctic, the Arctic and other remote places.