Meet the ACEER >> María Verónica Lombeida Saltos
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Instituto Metropolitano de Diseño
María Verónica Lombeida Saltos
Artist in Residence
ACEER Member since: 2026
Professional Affiliation: Instituto Metropolitano de Diseño
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Biography:
Verónica is a photographer born and based in Ecuador; her work is deeply shaped by the social and environmental tensions of her country. She studied Photographic Design at the Instituto Metropolitano de Diseño (La Metro) in Quito, and has expanded her training through workshops with Santa Talleres and Subplataforma across South America. She is currently one of the photographers selected for the Rizoma program. Her practice produces sensorial images at the intersection of social justice, human rights, environmental advocacy, mental health, and women's rights, exploring how bodies, landscapes, and systems carry memory and resistance.
Her photographs have been exhibited in Ecuador, Mexico, Belgium, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, China, and Panama. In 2020, she was selected for the ICP Concerned exhibition and photobook at the International Center of Photography in New York, chosen from over 100,000 participants. In 2022, she was one of 16 finalists for the Brazil Grant in the Emerging Art category with her project An Inward Journey. The following year, her series La Floresta, an investigation into gentrification, received an Honorable Mention at the Photo IILA (Italo-Latino) Prize and was exhibited at the Trastevere Museum in Rome from October to November 2023. Most recently, she received the Premio Revelación at the National Photography Award of the AFE in Ecuador in 2024, and in 2025, the Nenkepare community project got an honorable mention in the Earth Partner.