Isabella Durazo is a multidisciplinary artist from Mexico, currently based in Toronto, Canada. Her practice draws from personal and shared experiences of identity, memory, and diaspora, reflecting on nostalgia, longing for home, and the search for connection. Her work is deeply influenced by Mexican culture, music, food, and history. She finds beauty in the everyday, in her childhood home, street markets, urban landscapes, nature, and oceansides, transforming lived experiences into playful, colourful, and layered works that move between visual archives and digital media.
Through her distinct use of photography, video, graphic design, text, sound, music, and archival materials, Durazo creates works that invite viewers to engage with the Mexican experience and the complexities of cultural identity within the diaspora. Her practice seeks to keep cultural memories alive while challenging stereotypical, colonial, and misconceived representations of Mexican identity.
-Written by Arantxa Molina, friend
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Which ’hood are you in?
I’m currently located in The Annex, a vibrant neighbourhood in Toronto, ON.
What do you do?
I’m a multidisciplinary artist and designer, with interests ranging from graphic design, filmmaking, photography and animation to fashion, dance, mixing and playing music.
What are you currently working on?
Alongside my design work as a freelancer, I’m currently in the midst of developing a collective design project alongside my friends, ETC DEPT. With a core focus on art and design, the purpose is to bring together the creative community in Toronto.
Where can we find your work?
These are some links to my work!
Instagram | Website | GRADEX111 | Design Collective
