Marlitt Almodovar (Mexico City, Mexico) holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Facultad de Artes y Diseño at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and has completed a Master's degree specializing in Painting at UNAM’s Graduate School (2022), where she conducted research on the representation of time in traditional Japanese painting (nihonga 日本画). In her work, Almodovar explores ways to narrate the intermediate states of time, drawing on concepts from classical Japanese aesthetics such as mono-no-aware. She is currently part of the Permanent Seminar for Research in Art and Culture Mexico-Japan at the Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información de Artes Plásticas (Cenidiap) at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBA). She has received support from the Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales (SACPC) for an artistic residency in Fukuoka, Japan (2023) and is currently a beneficiary of the Programa de Estímulos a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico (PECDA), in the discipline of painting. She has exhibited individually at the Instituto Potosino de Bellas Artes (IPBA, SLP), Galería GAMA (Mexico City) and the Galería Glasverandan (Borås, Sweden). Her work has been selected for the Tijuana Triennale (2021), the Biennial of Antojo (2021), the UNAM Art and Design Biennial (2014) and the Dr. Alfonso Pérez Romo Biennial of Plastic Arts (2017).