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Paulina Velázquez Solís

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Academic Research Areas

  • Digital media
  • Drawing
  • Film/video/sound
  • Installation art
  • Performance art
  • Sculpture
  • Technology and art
  • Media arts performance and sound
Paulina Velázquez Solís is a multimedia artist and curator from Mexico and Costa Rica. She works with installation, sound, sculpture, drawing, animation/video, and media performance. She is interested in the body and the biological and natural world in interaction with the cultural and social notions of normalcy and experiences as a multinational individual. Her work has been shown in places like Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo and TEOR/éTica in Costa Rica; Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan; Ex Teresa Arte Actual in México City; Casa de las Americas in La Havana, Cuba; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Panamá City; Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC; and Root Division and The Lab in San Francisco. Velázquez received a B.F.A. and a Licenciatura in Printmaking from Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica and an M.F.A. in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute as a Fulbright Scholar.
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Academic Research Areas

  • Digital media
  • Drawing
  • Film/video/sound
  • Installation art
  • Performance art
  • Sculpture
  • Technology and art
  • Media arts performance and sound
  • A film plays on projector screen featuring green plants
  • Audience members view a large panel with two amorphous humanoid shapes with orange textures.
  • Detailed view of terracotta colored abstract prints in a grid format on gallery wall
  • White gallery walls with colorful prints in the background and abstract objects hang from the ceiling in the foreground
  • Silhouette of sound board and person operating the board with an abstract sunset image in the background

Un río de todas las épocas / A river of all ages (2021), three channel video installation with sound, 10′ x 10′ x 10′.

Unseen/forgotten: An ode to the humble landscape (2024), video installation and sound in public space and media performance, 15 minute loop projection, 25 minute performance.

Huellas III / Traces III (2023), 67 laser-engraved painted panels.

Paulina Velázquez Solís and Travis Johns, Orden Orgánico/ Organic Order (2018), interactive sound installation, fabric, analog electronics, speakers, 16 light sensitive sculptures, 2 synthesizers, variable dimensions.

Multifungi (2023), multimedia performance.

Classes

  • Media Arts Performance and Sound: Interactions

    ART 5707/3707

  • Media Arts Performance and Sound: Intersections

    ART 2701

  • Many Art Worlds Are Possible

    ART 3900

  • Special Topics: Time and Space

    ART 5799/3799

  • First Year Research Workshop Seminar

    ART 2103

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Urban Video Project Regional Commission

    Light Work, Syracuse, NY
    2023

  • Artist in Community Grant

    Community Arts Partnership, New York State Council for the Arts
    2021

  • Winning Artists, Bienarte 8

    In collaboration with Travis Johns, representing Costa Rica in the Central American Biennale 2012 in Panama
    2011

  • Fulbright Scholarship

    For graduate studies in the United States
    2008

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Unseen/Forgotten: Ode to the Humble Landscape

    Urban Video Project, Light Work, 2024.

  • Everson Museum Façade

    Syracuse, NY.

  • Multifungi

    Media performance curated by Sara Garzón, Canal Projects, NY, 2023.

  • Central Festival de Performance

    Curated by Pancho Lopez, Grace Exhibition Space, NY, 2024.

  • Desplazamientos: Imagen en Movimiento y Arte Digital Reciente en Costa Rica

    Curated by José Daniel Picado García and Fernando Chaves Espinach, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica, 2023.

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