Marianna Jimenez Edwards is a Mexican American visual artist whose work explores cultural memory, Mexican textile traditions, archaeology, and the complexities of bicultural identity. Born in El Paso and having lived in Milwaukee, South Florida, San Francisco, and now Boise for 16 years, Edwards draws on her experiences across regions to examine the delicate balance of existing between worlds.

Working in oil, acrylic, and mixed media, Edwards builds her surfaces with painted and physical layers of collected ephemera—family photographs and letters, fragments of books and magazines, and other printed materials. These elements become a visual language through which she considers the effects of distance from one’s culture, and the ways identity is seen and shaped in American spaces.

Edwards received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is a three-time Alexa Rose Foundation grant recipient and a Wave 2 artist in residence at The Commonwell in Garden City. Her work is included in private and public collections locally and nationally. She currently lives in Boise, Idaho, where she lives with her husband Matt and son. She maintains her studio practice at home and teaches art in a public high school.