Paulina Nieto Canterbury
Paulina Nieto Canterbury (b. 1996, Querétaro, Mexico) is a Mexico City–based mixed-media and textile artist whose practice explores the intersections of ecology, materiality, and collective memory.
Since her studies at the Miami International University of Art & Design (2016–2019), Nieto has developed an embroidery-like process using thousands of cut-outs from drawings, photographs, and handmade papers, combined with pins and glass beads. These layered fragments mimic the structure of intricate embroidery, generating surfaces that shift between textile, sculpture, and image.
In 2020, she expanded her practice through an ongoing collaboration with her mother, Sandra Canterbury, integrating weaving and embroidery on sculptural forms. This intergenerational technique has since become a constant in her work, extending its spatial and structural dimensions while underscoring the role of craft as both cultural and conceptual language.
Her practice has been recognized in Not Yet Magazine (Issue #7, 2025), The Jealous Curator’s ART DELIVERY (2024), and Textile Curator (2022).
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Paulina Nieto Canterbury
Born in 1996 in Queretaro, Mexico
Resides and works in
Mexico City, Mexico.
Education
2016 - 2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts,
Miami International University of Art & Design.
Miami, FL, USA.
Press
2025, Print & Digital Feature, Not Yet Magazine, Issue #7.
2024, Featured Artist 'ART DELIVERY' from The Jealous Curator.
2022, Interview with Textile Curator.
