Blanka Amezkua was formally trained as a painter, studying in Florence, Italy and received her B.A. from California State University Fresno.  Her work and projects have been shown in the United States, Mexico and Greece at MoMA-P.S.1, Exit Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art, Towson University, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), Casa John Spencer, 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.  In 2010, BBBP's two-year trajectory was included in several shows in New York City.  The first was Greater New York: 5 Year Review at MoMA-PS 1 and Alternative Histories at Exit Art.  That same year, she began 3///3 ...three walls on wednesdays... as an open invitation for artists from any point of the globe to exhibit their work on three mobile walls that she carries and places in different public spaces each week.  3///3 is currently moving through the city of Athens, Greece.  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.  She lives and works between Cuernavaca (Mexico), Athens (Greece) and New York City (USA).