Her work has been featured globally in exhibitions such as Joya Barcelona, the MAD Museum in New York, the Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibition, Gioielli in Fermento in Italy, Parcours Bijoux in Paris, the Benaki Museum in Greece, and Museum Arnhem in the Netherlands. In 2020, she held a solo show at the Murate Art District in Florence, Italy, and was awarded the Marzee Graduate Prize.

Virginia lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia.

Virginia Escobar is a Colombian jewellery maker. Initially trained as an attorney at law and holding a Master’s in Business Administration, she began studying jewellery in Bogotá in 2010. In 2019, she graduated from the MFA program at Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence, Italy.

Virginia understands jewellery as a deeply human form of expression. She is interested in creating pieces that can be worn on the body and connect with others. Her creative process revolves around material experimentation and research, transforming resources, reusing them, and discovering new meanings through the act of making jewellery.

Her body of work, What’s Behind, builds on her previous series exploring identity. It examines how the pandemic altered our appearance and changed the way we physically identify one another. A mask covered us all, making it difficult to recognise faces. The pieces developed for this project represent her first impressions of seeing countless masked faces. They are portraits of hidden identities in a world suddenly filled with only eyes.

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