In 2024, she was a visiting scholar in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program resident for the 2024-2025 cycle, in Germany.
[5] In 2001, Maria José Arjona moved from Bogotá to New York City, where she lived and worked for fifteen years.
In an interview to curator and art historian Cecilia Fajardo-Hill for Bomb Magazine in 2018, the artist mentions moving on the day of the 9/11 events.
In 2010, Arjona participated as a re-performer in Marina Abramović's career retrospective The Artist Is Present at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
[4] Arjona was an artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines, in 2016, in which she created the performance piece Practice after being introduced to the local culture and Filipino dance manifestations.