Catherine Abitbol graduated from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and has a masters in Art History by Christie’s of New York, where she also did her working practices in the Photography Department. Adding to her studies in order to have a broader perspective as an artist she also took courses at the Art Center in Miami, New England School of Photography in Boston, and Escuela Activa de Fotografía Coyoacán (Mexico) as well as studying under the mentorship of Saúl Serrano in Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico).

Shortly after, she did still photography for the well-known Mexican film ‘Matando Cabos’, and started participating in a series of important collective exhibitions at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico), Bienal de Arte PosModerno (Mexico), Museo Franz Mayer (Mexico), Museo de Arte Moderno + Fundación México Vivo (Mexico) and South Hampton Art Fair (USA).

In later years, she’s had a number of solo shows and open studio at Licenciado Gallery, currently representing her and where her studio is located as a permanent residency: Fly me to the Moon (2015), Fondo de Cristal (2016), At the Water Stop (2020). She has also been a constant name at two of the most important art fairs in Mexico and LatinAmerica: ZONA MACO and Salón ACME.

Catherine Abitbol’s photographic work can be defined by being the exact combination of documentation, memory and desire, nostalgia being an inherent part of it. She uses the camera as an extension of her body and the result is a visual solution that responds to the formal composition. Analog absolute, what remains is hard to forget.

For her, photography is a daily hunt, an immediate action taking place on paper, and once it is observed it becomes an extraordinary meditation on the power of capturing an instant.