Photo by Denise Van Gerven
Mariana Vidal-Escabi (b. 1977, San Juan, Puerto Rico) earned a BA from Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Colombia, and a double major MFA with honors in Fashion Design and Fashion Print Textile Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.
She has participated in exhibitions at Hunterdon Art Museum in 2025, Printed Matter's Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, New York, in 2018 and 2019; Baxter Street Camera Club, New York, in 2019; Stand Out Prints at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN in 2018.
Vidal-Escabi had a solo exhibition of her textile work in 2021 in New York City and at De Bouwput Gallery in Amsterdam, NL, in 2023.
Her work is part of the MoMA and SFMoMA library collections.
Her work experience has expanded from Fashion, Print Textile Design to Concept and Color Design, working with renowned designers Zero+Maria Cornejo and Diane von Furstenberg and brands Banana Republic and Coach.
She founded A W I N D O W, an NYC-based creative studio that aims to find new and unique ways of creating, presenting, and consuming design, fashion, and art.
She is an Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and was previously the Associate Director of the BFA Fashion Design program at Parsons School of Design.
Lives and works in New York City.