Marisol Valencia is a Houston-based artist, born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, where she studied 4 years of Restoration and Conservation of Art at ECRO, Escuela de Conservación y Restauración de Occidente. She has lived in the United States since 2004. Her creative practice focuses on ceramics and mixed media. In her pieces, she creates unique conversations between the interaction of different materials. Marisol finds ways to manipulate and relate materials to each other to achieve visual ambiguities that will encourage the viewers to re-examine their assumptions. She is constantly exploring ways to expand the perceptions of everyday objects by focusing on their aesthetic and formal qualities, which are often overshadowed by their functionality. Her work seeks to capture her desire to find meaning and beauty in the everyday, in abandoned objects, in things that have lost their purpose or should not have happened, that are overlooked or disregarded. After earning a Certificate of Achievement in Ceramics from the Glassell School of Art, MFAH, in 2015, Marisol completed Glassell’s two-year BLOCK Program in 2022. Her work has been included in multiple shows, including at the Holocaust Museum of Houston, the Consulate General of Mexico, Anya Tish Gallery, and Glassell’s Levant Gallery, MFAH.