PILAR DE ARIÑO WAS BORN IN MEXICO CITY IN 1992. SHE STUDIED INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AT UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA, GRADUATING IN 2015. AS PART OF HER ACADEMIC FORMATION, SHE SPENT A YEAR AT THE KÖLN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF DESIGN IN COLOGNE, GERMANY.

AFTER GRADUATING, SHE FOCUSED ON DESIGN FOR MUSEOGRAPHY WHILE WORKING AT GN STUDIO, FOLLOWED BY EXPERIENCE IN FURNITURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN AT BREUER STUDIO, AND LATER IN COLLECTIBLE SCULPTURAL DESIGN AT EWE STUDIO.

IN PARALLEL, IN 2016, SHE CO-FOUNDED COTA STUDIO, AN INDEPENDENT DESIGN STUDIO DEDICATED TO THE CREATION OF FURNITURE AND OBJECTS.

IN LATE 2020, SHE LAUNCHED HER SOLO PRACTICE, ESTABLISHING A PERSONAL LANGUAGE THAT MERGES HER DESIGN BACKGROUND WITH HER ARTISTIC EXPLORATION. HER WORK IS ROOTED IN ONGOING EXPERIMENTATION WITH MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES, AND ARTISANAL PROCESSES DRAWN FROM BOTH DESIGN AND ART. SHE EXPLORES THE EXPRESSIVE POTENTIAL OF MATTER AS A VEHICLE FOR SYMBOLISM AND NARRATIVE. THROUGH VARIOUS SERIES, SHE HAS EXPLORED THEMES SUCH AS MEMORY, PERCEPTION, TERRITORY, IDENTITY, AND THE ACT OF INHABITING A PLACE; AND THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN FORM AND COMPOSITION.