María Eugenia Trujillo

María Eugenia Trujillo (b. 1953, Colombia) is an artist whose work focuses on the exploration and representation of taboos surrounding the female sex.

He studied Philosophy and Literature at the Santo Tomás de Aquino University in Cartagena, Fine Arts at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, and Cultural Management at the University of Rosario. Throughout his career, he has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Colombia, Canada, France, Chile, and Spain.

After her exhibition Once años , Trujillo began to specialize in embroidery and the use of mannequins as artistic pieces to represent the objectification of the female body. Her choice of embroidery is no coincidence, as this technique, traditionally associated with women, has been seen both as a tedious task and as a space of female confidence and complicity. With this, Trujillo joins a movement of artists who champion textile work and elevate it to the level of other artistic disciplines.

Her work challenges the historical submission imposed on women, questioning their representation within the Judeo-Christian imagination as symbols of lust, temptation, and sin. Through her art, she denounces the guilt imposed on the female body and claims her liberation and right to sexual pleasure.

It also addresses underexplored topics such as confessional conversations, the sin of solicitation, and monastic life as a way out of marriage and gender inequality. In her work, she embroiders parts of the female body—vaginas, nipples, hearts—and incorporates these elements into religious objects to redefine them and transform them into pieces that invite contemplation and reflection.

The strong political and social content of her work earned her censorship in 2014, when Catholic groups denounced her exhibition “Mujeres Ocultas” (Hidden Women) at the Santa Clara Museum in Bogotá.