Ilana Boltvinik is a visual and theoretical artist. She has a PhD in Social Sciences and Humanities from the UAM Cuajimalpa. She studied Visual Arts at La Esmeralda and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Holland, with scholarships from FONCA, INBA and the Dutch Ministry of Culture. Her work focuses on extradisciplinary artistic research and production in dialogue with sociology, anthropology and science, with special emphasis on shared spaces and garbage. She was the National System of Creators 2018-2020. With her collective, TRES (2009), of which she is co-founder, she received a scholarship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the PAC and Fundación Jumex. In 2016 she was awarded the Robert Gardner Fellowship from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. She has had more than 30 individual exhibitions in America, Europe and Asia; and more than 40 collectives in Mexico and abroad. She is currently a researcher at the Institute of Plastic Arts of the Universidad Veracruzana.