Julia Orquera Bianco’s practice challenges static ideas of belonging by using her family and cultural heritage, her reseach 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.

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.

Photo by Shae Combs.