DIRECTORY 2026

Fina Ferrara | Performance

Born in 1983 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, Fina Ferrara is a multidisciplinary performance and video artist whose practice emerged from a rigorous background in classical ballet. Her work explores movement as a physical, emotional, and conceptual force, integrating performance, theater, sculpture, video, and installation to create immersive and emotionally charged experiences.

Ferrara blurs the boundary between performer and viewer, inviting audiences into spaces of visceral reflection. Through the body, she investigates processes of pain, purification, vulnerability, and transformation, translating inner tension into acts of release and presence. Her creative process is deeply intuitive and rooted in personal experience, yet it transcends autobiography to engage collective narratives surrounding womanhood, resistance, and emotional truth.

Her imagery, at times shaped by symbolic gestures such as holding a frozen heart or breaking wine glasses, lingers in the viewer’s psyche, navigating the tension between beauty and discomfort, control and surrender. Ferrara conceives performance not as reenactment, but as invocation: a means of revealing what is usually silenced or unseen.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in cities including London, Paris, New York, Venice, Rome, Madrid, South Korea, and Mumbai, as well as throughout Latin America. She has received multiple international awards, including the Future of Art Global Masterpiece Award, the Leonardo da Vinci International Prize, and the Collectors Art Prize / Art Legends of Our Time (2025). Ferrara has also been featured in Art Market Magazine’s Gold List and recognized by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine as one of the Top Contemporary Artists to Watch.

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