Maria Elena Pombo
María-Elena Pombo is an artist and researcher working on open-ended and interconnected projects that seek to dismantle hegemonic narratives and create alternative ones through installations, sculptures, videos, and moments that play with site-specificity, ephemerality, and participation.
Her work has been exhibited at Somerset House (London), Mana Contemporary (Jersey City), A/D/O (Brooklyn), SXSW (Austin), Yamamoto-Seika (Osaka), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan), and more across the USA, Europe, and Japan.
Pombo won the 2021 London Design Biennale’s Theme Medal. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Slowdown, Metal Magazine, i-D, Vogue, Forbes, and the book ‘True Colors: World Masters of Natural Dyes”.
She is faculty at Parsons School of Design and was previously instructor at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York Botanical Garden, and other traditional and unorthodox spaces internationally.