Vanessa Vilchis was born in Mexico City. Since she was a child, she has been dedicated to painting and creating art. In 2014 the loss of her mother changed her life forever but through that art became the most honest way to express herself and help her heal. Vilchis was always interested in capturing people, but it was not until her terrible loss that she began to explore individuals more deeply than before. Vanessa offers a different perspective to examine age. She always tries to show the movement, the inevitable process of the decadence of the human flesh, and its inevitable mental transformation. Her paintings have a vanishing intention and an exercise of evolution. Knowing she would not be able to capture her mother as an old person would lead to her incessant questioning about life, death, and destiny.

My work reflects the meaning of the ephemeral, the quality of time, the need for the human body to deteriorate, and the inevitable loss. Senility, wrinkles, and spots, the controversy of what it means to be an old person. The evidence on our skin gets us closer to death. Are life and death a coincidence or fate? I find the beauty in someone that is running out of time. I try to capture the clue of life. My personal story is closely related to my paintings. They have a common denominator, the uninterrupted subject of life and death, its physical and psychological process, strongly joined with what we usually call "destiny.”

She now represents an Association of Mexican artists in Germany and dedicates her time to sports and art.