In the Middle of the Endless Water

September 20th - November 22nd 2026

Reception: Thursday, October 15th, 5-7pm

A solo exhibition by Julia Orquera Bianco that brings together more than ten years of the artist’s work.

The exhibition traces a journey through different territories and stages in Bianco’s practice, from her early experiences of migration to her most recent work in the United States. In this movement, distance from the artist’s home in Argentina opens questions around forms of belonging, family, and cultural heritage. The ongoing hybridization between what one carries with them and what one discovers in each new geography becomes increasingly apparent in the work.

The exhibition also explores fieldwork as a narrative device, attuning to the place-making dimension of Bianco’s most recent research into Andean-Amazonian cosmology and her work with plants from South and North America. Process, laboratory, and experimentation displace the idea of the finished artwork, making room for expressing relationships of mutual care.

Water runs through the exhibition as a connecting thread: always the same, always different, linking us to the past through its cycles.

Curated by Carolina Cuervo

Thanks to The Isabel Meta Wolfstein Fine Arts Fund in School of Art

JULIA ORQUERA BIANCO is an Argentinian artist and ecologist based in Cincinnati, Ohio. She earned a BFA from Universidad del Museo Social Argentino in 2012. In 2018 she graduated from the MFA program at Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Bianco earned a Certificate on Sustainability from UCLA in 2020, was an intern in the Medicinal Plant Conservation Program at United Plant Savers in 2022 and earned a Certificate in Permaculture Design from Cincinnati Permaculture Institute in 2023. Since 2024, Bianco is a student of Shipibo Maestra Estela Pangoza, traveling to the Peruvian Amazon regularly to study the medicinal Plants of the rainforest.

Julia Orquera Bianco’s practice challenges static ideas of belonging by using her family and cultural heritage, her research on Andean-Amazonian cosmovision, and her work with plants of South and North America. Her work reflects on the changing nature of identity and belonging and their entanglement with the past, the present, and the place. She uses her family legacy of labor, craft, music, and storytelling as strategies of home-building, experiencing while remembering.