Visual artist and researcher. Born and raised in Lima, Peru and based in Ibaraki, Japan. She is a Monbukagakusho Scholar of the Japanese Government. Ibañez has worked as a lecturer in art and design for over a decade. Currently pursuing doctoral studies in Photomedia at the Doctoral Program in Art at the University of Tsukuba. Her work has been presented in different cities in Latin America, Spain, France, the USA, Korea and Japan. She is researching landscape, migration, and Latin American communities in Japan and is a Time Lab/McLeod Lab research group member.