Mayte Gómez Molina

Mayte Gómez Molina (Madrid by accident, Granada by blood, 1993) is a writer, researcher and new media artist who uses writing as the backbone of a plural practice. She handles poetry and fiction in a traditional sense, creating «book» objects, but also explores the expansion of literature into digital formats through film, 3D and virtual reality. A Fulbright Scholar 2019-2021, she studied an MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2021 she had her first solo exhibition at the University of Granada, I can see the back of my head, from which his first collection of poems was born: My virtual skin, tired. After winning several literary competitions, she was recognised with the Miguel Hernández National Youth Poetry Prize 2023 for her work The work without Hercules. In 2024 he published the collection of poems Closed-circuit surveillance. She is currently part of the MAKE/SENSE PhD programme at the Academy of Art and Design Basel, where she also teaches at the Institute for Art, Gender and Nature.