Based in Athens, Greece and New York, Blanka Amezkua was formally trained as a painter, studying in Florence, Italy and receiving her B.A. from California State University Fresno.  Her work and projects have been shown in P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center - MoMA, Exit Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) in San Jose, CA, and The Taller Boricua, among others.

Receipient of the BRIO award from the Bronx Council on the Arts in 2007, Blanka began an artist-run project in her bedroom called the Bronx Blue Bedroom Project (BBBP) in 2008.   BBBP received funding through the Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Development Fund for its ongoing programming in 2009.  In the summer of 2010 she initiated 3///3 ...three walls on wednesdays... as an open invitation for artists to exhibit their work on three mobile walls in the streets of Athens.  Mentions of her work are included in the New York Times, TimeOut, Daily News, Art21:blog, Queens Chronicle, International Museum of Women, WNYC, as well as other publications.