Débora Delmar

Débora Delmar (b. 1986, Mexico City, MX) lives and works between London, UK and Mexico City as a conceptual artist working within institutional critique. Her work utilises a range of media, focusing on installation. Within her practice, she explores the societal impacts of capitalism, exploring the systems of circulation of goods and people within globalisation. Her installations reference the homogenising minimalist aesthetics utilised in “non-spaces” like banks and airports. Stemming from her interest in contractual agreements inherent to the production of exhibitions, Delmar creates detailed briefs that serve simultaneously as descriptive documents and instructions for her works. These range from architectural interventions to manufacturing artwork using local production methods, as well as purchasing, renting, exchanging, collecting and loaning objects.

Recent exhibitions include BOUGAINVILLEAS, Koraï, Nicosia, CY (2025); TRUST, Stanley Picker Gallery, London UK (2025); LIBERTY & SECURITY, Museo Jumex, Mexico City Mexico (2024); CASTLES, LLano, MX (2023). Delmar’s work has been previously included in the XVI FEMSA Biennial Mexico, curated by Daniel Garza Usabiaga, Michoacán, MX, 2020-21; The Biennial of the Americas, Denver, US, 2016; and the 9thBerlin Biennial, cutrated by dis, Berlin, DE, 2015. She has received numerous grants such as the Jumex Museum Scholarship, MX, 2016-2018; Red Mansion Art Prize, UK/CN, 2018; and the Wolfson College Cambridge RA Graduate Prize, UK, 2019 and more recently Stanley Picker Fellowship, Kingston University London, UK in 2022.