Exhibitions
2024 “Re-Collections: Unmounting Colonial Histories”. Arturo Almeida, Daniel (curator). Latinx Project
[New York, NY]
“Jugar con los ojos cerrados; Cien Años de Surrealismo.” Rangel, Gabriela (curator). RGR Gallery
[Mexico City, MX]
“Solsticio”. Carrera, Eduardo (curator). Kate-Ferris Projects [New York, NY]
2023 “Un metro del Ecuador,” Kronfle, Rodolfo (cuartor). IL POSTO [Santiago, Chile]
“All Inclusive”, Vigil Gonzales Santo Domingo, [Ciudad Colonial , República Dominicana]
“Bad Mirror,” A two-part exhibition presented by EFA Studios & Monira Foundation [New York, NY]
“In Retrospect / Bad Mirror,” A two-part exhibition presented by Monira Foundations &
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Art. [Jersey City, NJ]
2022 “Las piedras están vivas,” Ponce + Robles Gallery [Madrid, SP] (solo)
“Piedras Vivas,” Kronfle, Rodolfo (cuartor), Proyecto Nasal [Guayaquil, EC] (solo)
2021 “Bienal de Bioceno: Cambiar el Verde por Azul,” de la Torre, Blanca (curator). XV Bienal de Cuenca
[Cuenca, EC]
“Raiz”, Carrera, Eduardo y Sanchez, Jorge (curators). Centro de Arte Contemporaneo [Quito, EC]
“Rumi,” Galería Vigil Gonzales & Galería Talo [Cuenca, EC]
“Solo Project: Karina Aguilera Skvirsky,” Fumero, Luis; Roldán, Oscar (curators). Pinta Miami [Miami, FL]
“Flash Point,” Estrada, Pilar (curator). Ponce + Robles Gallery [Madrid, SP]
“Proyecto Pinturas Negras,” Ratia, Alejandro (curator). Territorio Goya [Zaragoza, SP]
“Life-Line,” Photoville NYC, collaboration with Laura Nova.
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center [New York, NY]
2020 “Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá,” online solo project, Valencia, Andrea (curator). Backroom,
Museo Tamayo [Mexico City, MX]
“El Peligroso Viaje de María Rosa Palacios,” Galería Vigil Gonzales [Sacred Valley, PE]
“De confines y confinamiento,” Cazar, Katya (curator). On-line Exhibition, a precursor, XV Cuenca Biennial
[Cuenca, EC]
“Sinergia 2.0,” Aguirre, Mauricio (curator). Proyecto Nasal [Guayaquil, EC]
“Geometría Sagrada,” solo Booth, Moura, Rodrigo; Temkin, Susanna (curators). Diálogos,
on-line Frieze Art Fair. El museo del Barrio [NY, NY]
“Lo que dejamos fuera / What we leave out,” Galería Vigil Gonzales [Lima, PE]
2019 “Geometría Sagrada / Sacred Geometry,” Museo Amparo [Puebla, MX] (solo museum)
“Geometría Sagrada / Sacred Geometry,” Ponce + Robles Gallery [Madrid, SP] (solo)
“Africamericanos,” Carreras, Claudi (curator). Museo Amparo [Puebla, Mexico] (museum)
“Humboldt: Traspasar El Mito,” Durán, Lucia; Cerón, Jaime; Estrada, Pilar (curators).
El Centro Cultural Metropolitano de Quito [Quito, EC] (museum)
“Styling Perspectives,” Arnold, Alli (curator). Natman Room, John Jay Sharp Building, BAM [Brooklyn, NY]
“Process,” Hayes, Jeffreen (curator). Ithaca College, Handwerker Gallery [Ithaca, NY]
“where we came from + where we are going,” Kitada, Kimi (curator), Transformer [Washington, DC]
2018 Proyecto N.A.S.A. (L), Aguirre, Mauricio (curator). Exhibición paralela XIV Bienal de Cuenca
[Cuenca, EC]
“Africamericanos,” Carreras, Claudi (curator). Centro de la Imagen [Mexico City, Mexico] (museum)
“Horizontes Errantes,” Carrera, Eduardo (curator). Centro de Arte Contemporáneo [Quito, Ecuador]
(museum)
“Hybrid Topographies,” Espinel, Monica (curator), Deutsche Bank [New York, NY]
2017 “The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios,” Gilrain, Kathleen (curator). Smack Mellon Gallery
[Brooklyn, NY] (solo)
“Where does the future get made,” Lishui Biennial Photography Festival, Lishui Museum of Art [Lishui, China]
“Folds in the Photograph/Los pliegues en la foto,” Kronfle-Chambers, Rodolfo (curator). DPM Gallery
[Guayaquil, EC] (solo)
“Drones,” Monmouth University Gallery [Monmouth, NJ] (solo)
“Exquisite Corpse,” Ysabel, Pinyol (curator). Mana Contemporary [Miami, FL]
“Almost home: Between Staying and Leaving a Phantom Land,” Dror, Shlomit (curator). Dorsky Gallery [Queens, NY]
“Hacia donde Olmedo miraba,” Estrada, Pilar (curator). Ponce + Robles Gallery [Madrid, Spain]
2016 “Impermanence: XIII Cuenca Biennial,” Cameron, Dan (curator). Museo Pubapungo [Cuenca, EC] (museum)
“Descent,” Ickes, Charlotte (curator). Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania [
Philadelphia, PA] (museum)
2015 “The Daily Grind,” Getty, Cassandra (curator). Museum London [London, ON] (museum)
“Contornos: Desenredando el Museo,” Carrera, Eduardo, (curator). Centro de Arte Contemporaneo
[Quito, EC] (museum)
“Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities,” Zimbele, Zeljka; Heath, William (curators). Graffiti Gallery EOOD
[Varna, Bulgaria]
“Remnants,” Baena, Fernando (curator). Galeria Proceso [Cuenca, Ecuador]
“Story of a Story,” Dror, Shlomit (curator). Smack Mellon [Brooklyn, NY]
2014 “Proposals for an Ecuadorian Pavilion in Venice,” Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden [New York, NY] (solo)
“Drones,” DPM Gallery [Guayaquil, EC] (solo)
“Ready or Not 2014,” Dror, Shlomit (curator). Newark Museum [Newark, NJ] (museum)
“Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities,” Zimbele, Zeljka; Heath, William (curators). Galerijca Galzenica [Zagreb, Croatia]
“Becoming Male,” Lopez-Riley, Erin Curator. Freedman Gallery Center for the Arts, Albright College [Reading, PA]
2013 “Bloomfield Avenue Hotline,” Schwartz, Alix; Nova, Laura (curators). collaborative public art project
with Liselot van der Heijden. Bloomfield College & Montclair Museum of Art [Montclair, NJ] (museum)
2012 “Southern Exposure,” Kronfle-Chambers, Rodolfo (curator). DPM Gallery [Guayaquil, EC] (solo)
2011 “Ask Me: Tell Me,” public art project commissioned by the Laundromat Project [New York, NY]
2010 “Memories of Development,” Quijano, Rodrigo (curator). La Ex-Culpable [Lima, Peru] (solo)
“There is always a cup of sea for man to sail,” dos Anjos, Moacir; Farias, Agnaldo (chief curators) Carvajal, Rina; Maharaj, Sarat; Martinez, Chus;
Hasegawa, Yuko; Alvim, Fernando, (guest curators). The 29th São Paulo Biennial [São Paulo, Brazil] (museum)
2009 “Playlist,” Kronfle-Chambers, Rodolfo; Zapata, Cristóbal (curators). Galeria Proceso, Exhibición paralela X Bienal de Cuenca [Guayaquil, Ecuador]
2007 “50,000 Beds,” video art commission, Doyle, Chris (organizer). The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum [Ridgefield CT]
“Interpreting Utopia” Wallace, Brian; Shanberg, Ariel (curators). Samuel Dorsky Museum [New Paltz, NY] (museum)
2006 “Backyards,” Heist, Eric (curator). Momenta Art [Brooklyn, NY] (solo)
“S-Files,” Cullen, Deborah; Nieves, Marysol (curators). Biennial exhibition, El museo del barrio [New York, NY] Museum of Art of Puerto Rico [San
Juan, PR] (museum)
2004 “From the Woolworth,” Drawing Room. Jessica Murray Projects, [Brooklyn, NY] (solo)
Video Screenings, Performances & Web Projects
2022 “NY Latin American Art Triennial”. The Clemente [New York, NY]
2021 “How to build a wall and other ruins: paper,” Mapping Meaning. Washington College [Chesterton, MD]
2020 “Vote by Mail,” part of 100 Years / 100 Women. Commissioned by The Laundromat Project and Park Avenue Armory [New York, NY]
“Gioconda,” on-line Screening. Gallery400, University of Illinois, Chicago [Chicago, IL]
2019 “How to build a wall and other ruins: Pan de Yuca,” Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space [New York, NY]
“Female Migrations,” Se Habla Español (curators). screening + live performance, La Nacional [New York, NY]
2018 “Powerful Vulnerable,” Magsamen, Mary (curator). Aurora Picture Show [Houston, TX]
“Radical Remix,, Hermo, Carmen (curator). New Latin Wave Festival [Brooklyn, NY]
“The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios” and “Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá / “The Poems my Mother Recited”, Magsamen, Mary;
Angwal, Pia (curators). Live performance and screenings at Aurora Picture Show, Countercurrent Performance Festival [Houston, TX]
“The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios”, Hayes, Jeffreen (curator). Video Screening and Panel Discussion with Ickes, Charlotte; Hayes,
Jeffreen. In-Session, Threewalls [Chicago, IL]
2017 “Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá / The Poems my Mother Recited”, Nanda, Anjuli; Reisman, Sara (curators) Live performance, “The Supper
Club” exhibition. The 8th Floor [New York, NY]
2016 “Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá/ The Poems my Mother Recited”, Ickes, Charlotte (curator). Live performance at the Institute of
Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. [Philadelphia, PA]
2015 “Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá / The Poems my Mother Recited”, Baena, Fernando (curator). Live 9erformance at Festival de Arte de
Acción de Cuenca [Cuenca, Ecuador]
2014 “Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá/ The Poems my Mother Recited”, Gugelberger, Rachel (curator). Live performance. Center for Book Arts
[New York, NY]
Artist in Residence Programs
2024 Winter Workspace Residency, Wave Hill [Bronx, NY]
Instituto Sacatar [Bahia, Brazil]
2023 Fountainhead, [Miami, FL]
2022 Villa Bergerie, [Huesca, SP]
2015-2016 Back in 5 minutes, Artist in Residence, El museo del barrio [New York, NY]
2011 Laundromat Project: Create Change Residency, a social practice project [NY/NJ]
2010 MacDowell Artist in Residence Program [Peterborough, NH]
2008 Cuts and Burns Residency, Outpost, Artist in Residence Program [New York, NY]
2006 Harvestworks New Work Residency [New York, NY]
2005 Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council [New York, NY].
Institute of Electronic Arts Residency, Alfred University [Alfred, NY]
MacDowell Artist in Residence Program [Peterborough, NH]
Center for Book Arts, Artist in Residence [New York, NY]
2004 Smack Mellon Artist in Residence [Brooklyn, NY]
2003 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace, Woolworth Building [New York, NY]
Fellowships/Grants
2023 Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant [NY, NY]
New York State Council for the Arts Grant (NYSCA), Film and Video [NY, NY]
2021 Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Award, Lafayette College [Easton, PA]
City Artist Corp Grant, NYFA [New York, NY]
Wave Farm, Transmission Arts Grant [NY]
Practitioner’s Fellowship, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Brown University [Providence, RI]
2019 Anonymous Was A Woman [New York, NY]
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) [New York, NY]
Creative Capital Award [New York, NY}
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Creative Engagement Grant [New York, NY]
2018 NALAC (National Association Latino Arts & Culture) Visual Arts Grant [San Antonio, TX]
2015 NYC Film and Media Grant, Jerome Foundation, [MN/NY]
Research/Scholar Fulbright Award to Ecuador “The Perilous Journey of Maria Palacios”
NJSCA (New Jersey State Council on the Arts), Photography Fellowship [NJ]
2013 Bloomfield Avenue Art Prize, Montclair Art Museum and Bloomfield College [NJ]
2010 NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts), Film and Electronic Arts Grant [NY]
2006 Urban Artist Initiative Grant, [New York, NY]
Collections
Valzuela Foundation [SP]
Otazu Foundation [SP]
Urbes Mutantes: Latin American Photography
CBRE Development Corporation [New York, NY]
New York Historical Society [New York, NY]
Samuel Dorsky Museum [New Paltz, NY]
Museum of Modern Art Library [New York, NY]
Brooklyn Museum of Art [Brooklyn, NY}
SFMOMA Library [San Francisco, CA]
New York Public Library [New York, NY]
Whitney Museum of American Art [New York, NY]
Art Institute of Chicago [Chicago, IL]
Rhode Island School of Design [Providence, RI]
Indiana University Fine Arts Library [Bloomington, IN]
Education
Indiana University, M.F.A., Photography, 1996
Oberlin College, B.A., Spanish Literature, 1990