María Yzaga is a multidisciplinary Peruvian artist (Lima, 1995). She studied at the Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú(2014–2016) and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts and Design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (2016–2020). In 2017, she also studied jewelry at the same University. Her work has been featured in international art fairs such as PARC (Lima), arteBA (Buenos Aires), Object (Rotterdam), and UVNT (Madrid), as well as in group exhibitions in Lima, Sweden, and in 2023, she took part in In Search of the Invisible, a group show by Revolver Galería in New York.
María Yzaga’s practice is built upon forms that resonate with the body and transform into symbols through repetition and variation. Each initial form opens the way for a dynamic visual language, becoming the starting point for a visual genealogy in constant expansion.
Her process has been linked to maieutics, understood here as a form of dialogue between body, matter, and making. Just as maieutics seeks to “give birth” to knowledge already residing within the interlocutor, Yzaga’s art seems to assist in the emergence of forms that already exist, in potential, within her internal world — forms that find their path through the act of making.
In her sculptural work, this method translates into assemblages of found, mostly domestic objects — recognizable, often playful figures that evoke the everyday but deviate from their original function to become symbolic artifacts. In contrast, her painting follows a more gestural, sensory, and abstract logic.
Painting and sculpture intertwine as two complementary voices within a single visual language — one that seeks to name the unnameable, reveal the unspoken, and build meaning through form.
About María Yzaga
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Áura Sinfónica , Ginsberg y Tzu, Lima, Peru.
2022 Amor y Control, Incitatus Galería, Lima, Peru.
2019 When does it start, Where do I end?, Gerrit Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Group Exhibitions
2025 Devenir Otro, Sala de Arte Parque de la Amistad, Lima, Peru
2024 Casa Preludio, Alianza Francesa, Lima , Peru
2023 In search of the Invisible, Revolver, New York, United States.
2023 De Cierto, Revolver, Lima, Peru.
2022 Amor, Alianza Francesa, Lima Peru.
2022 Highest Priestess, Revolver, Lima, Peru.
2021 All Inn - National Fine Arts Show, Het Hem, Zaandam, The Netherlands.
2021 You better keep them creative, Casa Fugaz, Lima, Peru.
2020 Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2020 Uncut, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2019 SEA Art tour Texel, Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands.
Exhibitions in the following art fairs
2025 Contemporary Art Now, Madrid, Spain
2023 Pinta PArc, Revolver/Incitatus, Lima, Peru.
2023 Feria Material, Revolver/Incitatus, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.
2022 ArteBa, Revolver/Incitatus, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2022, Pinta PArc, Revolver/ Incitatus, Lima, Peru.
2021 Object Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Private Collections
2022 Coleccion Balanz, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Auctions
2022 MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art), Lima, Peru.
2022 Mision Huascaran, Lima Peru.
2021 XXVI Auction Mali (Museum of art of Lima) , Lima, Peru.
Publications
2025 Manera Magazine n.11
2025 Harpers Bazaar Online
2025 La República Online
2025 Vocablo del Arte
2020 GlassMagazine Over Glasskunst Ed. 20/4
Education
2022 -2023 PGCE, Sunderland University, Sunderland, United Kingdom.
2020- 2016 BA, Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2017-2016 Jewellery department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2016- 2014 Fine Arts Foundation Studies, Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Lima, Peru.