Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda was born in Malaga, but raised in the Canary Islands, Spain. Viejo currently lives and works in Hudson, New York. She holds an MFA from Hunter College, NY (2014) and a BFA from Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (2005). Recent solo exhibitions include; The Light Collectors, HallSpace Gallery, Boston, MA (2019/2020) and Letters to Wild Women, Hudson Library, Hudson, NY (2019). Recent group exhibitions include; Shaved Ice, ProtoGomez, New York, NY: A.I.R Gallery 13th Biennial, Lets try listening again, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2019): Tell Us Plainly What You Mean, Aquarius Gallery, Queens, NY (2019) and Woman Shall Inherit the Earth at the Panacea Museum, Bedford, U.K (2018).

Her work has been covered by publications including; Art Maze Magazine U.K, The Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, Artscope Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The Brooklyn Paper and Vanity Fair Italia. In 2015 she participated in the exhibition Wide Open 6 in BWAC, Brooklyn, NY in which she was awarded Best in Show Gold by Rujeko Hockley, curator of the Whitney Biennial 2019. In 2018 Viejo was awarded full Fellowships by the Jentel Arts Residency Program in WY and the Saltonstall Artist Residency Program in NY.