Details
| First Name | Carolina |
| Last Name | Paz |
| Username | carolina-paz |
| Bio | Carolina Paz is a Brazilian artist whose work moves at the intersection of language, poetic consciousness, and social change. She shifts among painting, installation, text, video, and reconfigurations of care, creating gestures of closeness, interruption, and realignment. She meets the world as matter in process, often through iteration, dislocation, and attentive presence. Curatorial and pedagogical modes are integral to her practice; she builds platforms, programs, and exhibitions as living ecologies that question, hold, and transform. She founded Uncool Artist, a structure for experimental development and field transformation, and serves as both artist and board member at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn. From 2010 to 2017 she directed Coletivo 2e1 in São Paulo. Her work has been shown in museums, biennials, institutional venues, and artist-run spaces in Brazil, the United States, Spain, Portugal, and Argentina. She received the Funarte Visual Arts Prize, and her pieces are held in private and public collections in the United States, Europe, and Brazil. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and graduate degrees in Social Sciences and in Media and Knowledge from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. |
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| Country of residence | United States (US) |
Statement
| Statement | My practice is deeply connected to contexts of intimacy, learning through proximity, and the longing for tactile connection that defines my daily existence and moments of displacement. I’ve created a small and open Brazilian school inside a big private American university, traded paintings for handwritten letters, offered pieces of thick small oil-painted panels as cakes, and asked people in a video and participatory installation in New York “How to taste as an American”. I’m interested in the nuances of places, people, time, and subtle atmospheres as I explore the concepts and tangible experiences of substance, fragment, repetition, accumulation, and affection. I like words, lists, seemingly random images, and composing through free association. To me, meaning is a fluid, subjective, and collective construction, ever-changing depending on its context. Currently, I spend most of my time painting, but I also create videos, site-specific installations, and participatory projects to engage with and articulate my emotional, psychological, and philosophical perspectives. Once completed, my pieces act as dynamic agents in service, activating spaces and igniting engagement. In my daily practice, I abstract elements from my internal state and immediate surroundings in the present. Questioning and exploring interpersonal and micro-intercultural contexts and spaces lie at the core of my practice. Echoes of my personal and social past will always, in one way or another, be present behind every choice and gesture I make, paying attention to what unfolds in the present moment. |
Interests and medias
| Interests | Painting |
| Painting medias | Oil |