Emma Segura Calderón
Emma Segura Calderón (1994) is a visual artist, researcher, and textile designer. She holds a Summa Cum Laude degree in Art and Visual Communication with an emphasis on Textiles from the Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica. She graduated from the Specialized Technical Program in Fashion Design at the Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje and the Graphic Production program at Byte Centro de Estudios. She also completed a Diploma in Image Studies: Analysis, Dissemination, and Teaching at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, where she is currently a member of the Refugio Reyes Chair.
She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in various spaces dedicated to artistic production, including museums, cultural centers, art galleries, public and private organizations, and academic institutions. Some of these venues include the Museo de Arte Costarricense, the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, the Museums of the Central Bank of Costa Rica, the Galería Nacional, satisFACTORY, the Museo Dr. Rafael Calderón Guardia, ApexArt New York, the Museo de las Américas, the Museo de la Identidad y el Orgullo, and the AECID Cultural Centers Network. Her work has been exhibited in countries such as Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Spain, China, and the United States.
In 2021, she was awarded the Francisco Amighetti National Culture Award in Visual Arts in the Tridimensional category for her exhibition El Tránsito de la Corporalidad es Inmanente at the Galería Joven Creación of the Alianza Francesa. In 2020, she participated in the conceptualization and direction of the video art project Tálamo in collaboration with Colectivo en Fuga, which won first place in the Experimental category at the Veracruz International Film Festival. She received the Prince Claus Seed Award 2024.
She worked on the research, management, and curation of the project Mundxs Nuestrxs at F de Imagen, a collective exhibition (2023-2024) showcasing the work of 14 trans* and non-binary artists from Costa Rica, supported by the Reactivarte Fund of La Libertad and the Ministry of Culture and Youth. This was her first curatorial project, understood as a collective extension of the objectives of her solo exhibitions in 2022: Trans*Semiosis: escrituras, cuerpos y textiles*, ES TIEMPO DE SER, and Itinerario Trans*.
In 2023, she performed Hilvanaciones para la memoria: ritual de celebración en vida at the Museums of the Central Bank of Costa Rica, as part of el Hilo Vibrante, an exhibition curated by María José Monge. This performance extended into international seminars, including the III Seminar on Textile Intervention Spaces at Hilaku in Zaragoza, Spain, and the Contemporary Art Intensives at the Itinerant School in Uruguay.
She has also led workshops such as the “Artistic Professionalization Tools Workshop” at F de Imagen and satisFACTORY and has participated in discussions and talks at the MADC, the Denver Museum, the Universidad Nacional, the Municipality of Guatemala, and the Centro Cultural de España. Her artistic and literary work has been published in Viviana Express (Edition 2) by Feliz Feliz publishing house, Orgullo magazine, and the publication Lambe-Lambe Faísca Latina in Guatemala and Brazil.
Additionally, she has received the "El Flotador" Artistic Production Grant from TEOR/éTica Foundation, the MADC Competitive Funds 2022: LA 1.1, the REACTIVARTE Fund of La Libertad 2023, the MAC National Salon Production Grant 2023, the Visual Arts Fund of the Museo de Arte Costarricense 2024, and the MAC National Salon Production Grant 2025. In 2025, she will present her performance El Traje Rojo as a guest artist at Vagon Gallery in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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