Valentina Attolini (b. 1998, Mexico City) is a Margate-based artist. Her work starts from the body, understood as a place where sensations, memories, desires, and the surrounding environment meet. She is interested in moments of tension and intensity, where things feel unstable or contradictory—such as pleasure and pain, beauty and violence, stillness and excitement. Rather than telling clear stories or fixed meanings, her work stays open and intuitive, focusing on how experiences are felt in the body.

It explores emotional and physical states as ongoing processes, not as stable identities. She is currently an artist-in-residence at TEAR Tracey Emin Artist Residency in Margate, UK. She holds a BA in Visual Arts from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City and completed an academic exchange at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy.

Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions such as Sonámbulos: los párpados lloran (Espacio Unión, 2024) and Es un lugar que no existe (RAM, 2023), as well as in group exhibitions including Notes from the Studio (Incubator, London, UK, 2025), Manual Intuitivo (Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX, 2025), Háptica (CAM Galería, Mexico City, MX, 2025), Pablo’s Birthday (Rent-Free Project, New York, USA, 2025), and Contra la nostalgia: las pulgas (Arróniz, Mexico City, MX, 2023). She has participated in Salon Acme No. 12 as a selected artist (Mexico City, MX, 2024), completed a residency at Solos Art Residency (Mexico City, MX, 2024), and was a recipient of the Jóvenes Creadores grant from the Sistema Nacional de Apoyo para la Cultura y las Artes (SACPC) in 2019 and 2024.