Rafaela Tellaeche (Mexico City, 1997) is an artist trained at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda and holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art, London. She currently lives and works in Mexico City, focusing on hand-based media such as embroidery, drawing, printmaking, and weaving to emphasize the importance of the body and the hand in creative and discursive processes.

Embroidery, in particular, allows her to investigate existential threads that tie us to the world through an empirical process. Her practice often unfolds through obsessive, repetitive, and sometimes linguistic platforms, where patience becomes both a form of resistance and a gesture of care.

Rafaela has participated in numerous collective exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, including un diseño sin Design at La Clínica (Oaxaca), El universo se encogió en madejas fantasmales at La Nao (Mexico City) and Proyecto Caimán (Guadalajara), as well as international showcases such as Tate Late (London), the Mexican Embassy in London, and the London Biennale (2021). She has presented solo shows at Casa Lamm, Alcalá Galerie, and Departamento, and in 2024 her print MANOS was featured in the MoMA’s graphic arts lab. She has also been selected for programs such as FAIN (2019), Arte por la Tangente, and the Pocoapoco residency in Oaxaca (2026).