Nirino is a textile and mixed media artist born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and based in Seattle since 2019. Working primarily through weaving, which she understands as a fundamental act of connection, interrelation, and construction between materials, people, disciplines, and ideas.

Nirino holds a Master’s degree in Textile Design and Master’s degree in Linguistics from the University of Buenos Aires and a Diploma in Environmental Humanities from Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. She is a former professor and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of Lanús. Her interdisciplinary academic background informs a practice where material thinking, language, and environmental responsibility intersect.

As a maker, she works with natural, recycled, and found materials, guided by a sense of responsibility toward the act of bringing new objects into the world. For her, making by hand is both a way of approaching reality and a method of critical reflection—allowing time to think, pause, and choose. When encountering new materials, she often wonders whether they can become yarn, whether they can be woven, and what relationships they might generate once transformed.

Gabriela has participated in Jacquard weaving and artist residencies in Italy, Canada, and the United States. Her work has been featured in General History of Art in Argentina, Volume XIII (2000–2020), published by the Argentine National Academy of Fine Arts, and is part of the permanent collection of the Argentine Secretary of Culture and of the City of Buenos Aires.

Her work has received numerous recognitions, including the First Acquisition Prize at the Tapestry Biennial at the Sívori Art Museum (Argentina), First Prize at The Inaugural Postmark Biennial (Postmark Center for the Arts, USA), Best of Show at the International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival (La Conner, USA), the New Growth Award at the Growth & Evolution International Exhibition (China), and First Acquisition Prize at the National Visual Arts Exhibition, Textile Art (Argentina).

Gabriela is a member of Northwest Designer Craftartists. Her work reflects a sustained commitment to material consciousness, interdependence, and the poetic potential of textile practices as a way of understanding and shaping the world.