María García Ibáñez has a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Master's degree in Digital Technologies from the Center for Visual Studies in Madrid and the UCM.

In 2008 she traveled to Mexico thanks to a scholarship awarded by the Mexican Embassy in Madrid and since then she has lived between both cities. The drawing is the initial structure that shapes most of her research. He considers drawing as a terrain from which to derive, full of possible encounters that determine the course of his projects and that at the same time works as an intuitive tool that allows him to approach and establish links with languages ​​from other disciplines such as archeology, geology, or anatomy, and with artisanal processes such as ceramics or textiles.

The creative process is a generator of content that leads her to understand her artistic production as part of a continuous and extended narrative over time, instead of as something closed or concluded. Her recent proposals regarding the construction of the landscape and the appropriation of the territory allow her to delve into the relationships that arise between nomadism and home, which ultimately involve a review of the sense of belonging. A continuous search for elementary structures and arrangements related to the body, scales, landscape, nature or writing. His latest individual exhibitions include: Levantamiento (Cultural Center of Spain, CCMX, 2018), Geometry of a hole (Galería Paz y Comedias, València, Spain, 2016), Cóncavo (Galería Paula Alonso, Madrid, 2015), Arada (Guijarro de Pablo, CCMX, 2015), Tierras Continuas (AJG Gallery, Seville, 2014), Micrographia (Puerta Roja & Cat Street Gallery. Hong Kong, 2013) Likewise, she has participated in different exhibitions and collective cultural projects, highlighting: 50 Mujeres/50 years (City Museum, CCMX, 2020), Visions in Motion (Puerta Roja Gallery, CCMX, 2019), Paper Ballad (Cápsula, Zurich, Switzerland, 2018), Chronicles of the current world, (Valentine de Madariaga Foundation, Seville, Spain, 2018), Explicit and Hidden: perceptions of being (Museo de Huelva, Spain, 2017), Anamnesis (with Javier León Pérez at Puerta Roja Gallery, Hong Kong, 2016), Fühlst du nicht an meinen liedern dass ich eins und doppelt bin (Galeria Peter Kilchmann, Switzerland, 2015), Ruta Mística (Museo Amparo, Puebla, 2014 and Museo MARCO, Monterrey, México, 2013), The prehistory of the Image (STUK Center, Belgium, 2014) He has obtained scholarships and support for the production of projects such as the Basu Foundation award (Calcutta, India, 2018) and the acquisition of the DKV Collection (Drawing Room, Madrid, 2017). He has also received the C12 Aid (Secretary of Culture of Oaxaca, Mexico), the Aid for creators (Ministry of Culture, Spain, 2012), the C11 Aid (Oaxaca, Mexico, 2011), the Residency for creators of Ibero-America (AECID, CONACULTA, FONCA, 2009), the mobility scholarship (Matadero, Art Center, Madrid, 2008) and the scholarship from the Mexican Embassy in Spain.