I am a multidisciplinary artist that has a general mission to create empathy between people threw their connection to earth. I was born in the amazon of Peru in a family built by migration and this marks my art and the choices I have taken in my art practice.
Every medium I use implies for me a different perspective and sensorial experience on the subject.
Threw painting is where I usually take on subjects of the land itself and life cycles in a very realistic manner, details of walks through natural spaces primarily in oil paint.
Threw freestyle embroidery or ceramics done in local amazon clays I take on board topics related to female experiences and nature as female. In video or digital formats, my art plays more into documentary type formats digging into subjects of migration, personal and collective experiences.
Each series I do has a previous investigation that many times takes me threw walks in the amazon rainforest, long documented conversations, or investigating a new material that I feel will enrich my discourse, in my later work the material that I chose is more rooted in family heritage.
My mission has also taken me to create experiences for different people and other artists to experiment with the land that is closest to me, the amazon basin, and in particular the Ucayali region of Perú. These experiences are thrown the cultural association Centro Selva Arte y Ciancia that I created in 2012. I take the participants to investigate and get to know the different cultures, social and natural aspects of this region. This investigation leads the participants to create art, exhibit, and talk about their process to the general local public.
Artist Resume
Independent Artist , Presidente of the Cultural Asociación Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia, Member of the Curators Association of Peru, Second Vice President of the AWLC Peru.
Selected solo shows:
2019 Red Lady Dressed in Green, Museum Marina Nuñez del Prado, San Isidro, Lima
2017 Inherited Nature, ICPNA gallery, Pucallpa, Peru
2016 Natural Heritage, Cultural Center Inca Garcilaso, Lima
2013 Threw These Puddles, Cultural Center Ricardo Palma, Lima, Perú.
2011 Retrospective – Legacy Gift of Property 2003 -2011, Pucallpa Cultural Center, Pucallpa, Perú.
2009 Afect, La Galería Arte Contemporáneo, San Isidro, Lima,
Origen Search, Melleruds Biblioteket, Mellerud, Suecia.
2008 Origen Project 1, Gallery Rotor 2, Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothemburgo , Suecia
Selected collective shows
2020
2020 3rd Drawing Contest, two generations of the British Cultural
2020 ICPNA Contemporary Art Award 2020
2020 Cycles, Germination | Duel | Metamorphosis, Online exhibition organized by the Cultural Asociation Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia
2019
Terrestrial – Recognize Yourself as Human, Galería Yankon Metsashoko, International Amazon Art Biennial , Pucallpa, Peru
International Lima Art Fair, Espacio La Sala, Lima, Peru
Meeting Point III, Galería de Arte Servulo, Jesús María, Lima, Peru
2018
Artist In Residencie, Centro Selva 2018, ICPNA, Pucallpa.
1er INTERNATIONAL MEETING AND URBAN SCULPTURE, Galería De Arte Servulo Gutierrez, Jesus María, Lima , Peru
2015
New Direction in Contemporary Ucayaline Art, Pucallpa Cultural Center, Peru.
2013
Yakumama magnetic snake, Del Barrio Gallery, Lima.
Centro Selva en Lima tránsitos y confluencias, Casa O’Higgins, Lima Peru;
2012
VI Summer Auction Museum of Art of Lima , Lima, Peru
Green Miracle, galería Luis Miró Quesada Garland, Lima, Peru
Amazon Vitions, Viajes El Corte Inglés y Enlace Arte contemporáneo, Lima, Peru
2011
Amazonian, Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma, Lima.
Bai Jueta, e-star gallery, Lima.
2010
The Kunstfilmtag Düsseldorf, Germany.
Relocation, Sta. Eugenia Katolska Forsamling, Estocolmo, Sweden.
Connect, Backa Kulturhus, Gothenburg.
Experimental Cinema Student Film Screening, Hagabion, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Clouds of Witness C: art media master’s exhibition. GalleryRödaSten, Gotemburgo, Sweden.
2009
Drawing so far 2009, Laholms Teckningsmuséeum, Sweden.
Spring Exhibition, Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden.
What Happened to November, Galleri Rotor 1, Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Biennal Exhibition Latin Views 2008, Alexy von Schippe gallery, Connecticut, USA
The Skin of the River, Centro Cultural de San Marcos, Lima.
Contests, acknowledgments, and residencies:
Diana Riesco – Lind Artist
2020 Finalists Contemporary Art Contest, del ICPNA
2020 Finalist in the Peruvian British Drawing Contest.
2019 Finalists Contemporary Art Contest, del ICPNA
2017,2015,2011 Finalist in the National Painting Contest of the Peruvian National Central Reserve Bank, Lima, Peru
2017 Recognition as an illustrious daughter of Pucallpa city by the provincial mayor of Coronel Portillo Antonio Marino Panduro.
2016 Residencia para artistas del Smedbyn , Huskvarna , Jonkoping , Suecia
Cultural Asociación Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia
2019
Peru Ministry of Culture Grant recipient for the Economic Stimuli for Culture 2019, granted to the project: International Amazon Art Biennial Pucallpa 2019 presented by the Cultural Association Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia.
Grant recipient of the American Women’s Literary Club. For the project of workshops of the art show Terrestrial – Recognize Yourself as Human in the context of the International Amazon Art Biennial, Pucallpa, Peru. presented by the Cultural Association Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia.
Grant Awardee of the 2017 Education Fund, granted to the Cultural Association Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia for the Seminar on Art and Art management for art students in the Public School of Art Eduardo Meza Saravia.
Invited to participate as a consultant in the encounter Reflections on the cultural production of the Amazon organized by MALI (the Lima Art Museum) – Goethe Institut, (the German institute) 2016, Lima
Panelist in the table Living Territories A multiple looks at the cultural production of the Amazon. In the Goethe Institut, 2016, Lima
Other
President and Founder of the Cultural Association Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia
Miembro del comité consultivo del Club Literario de Damas Americanas, 2015, 2016, 2017,2018,2019.
Curatorial Practice
Member of the Curators Association of Peru.
2019
Terrestre- Reconocerse Humano, exhibición colectiva de la Asociación Cultural Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia para la Bienal Internacional de Arte Amazónico.
Coincidentes, exhibición colectiva de la residencia para artistas de Asociación Cultural Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia.
Noche de Música y Arte XVI, Exhibición profundos proyectos de educación en el Perú del Club Literario de Damas Americanas. Más de 60 artistas., Corredores del Auditorio del Colegio Franklin Roosevelt, Lima
2018
Noche de Música y Arte XV, Exhibición pro fondos proyectos de educación en el Perú del Club Literario de Damas Americanas. Más de 50 artistas., Corredores del Auditorio del Colegio Franklin Roosevelt, Lima
Artistas en Residencia, Exhibición de fin de residencia para artistas de la Asociación Cultural Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia, ICPNA Pucallpa.
2017
Texto Curatorial de Individual de la artista Ucayalina. Liz Tania Diaz Vela, Centro Cultural de Pucallpa, Pucallpa
Noche de Música y Arte XIV, Exhibición profundos proyectos de educación en el Perú del Club Literario de Damas Americanas. Corredores del Auditorio del Colegio Franklin Roosevelt, Lima
Centro Selva 2017, Exhibición de fin de residencia para artistas de la Asociación Cultural Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia, Centro Cultural de Pucallpa.
2016
Centro Selva Quinto Aniversario, Colectiva, Selección de Artistas, distribución de obras en sala. ICPNA, texto introductorio, La Molina, Lima
Noche de Música y Arte XIII, Exhibición profundos proyectos de educación en el Perú del Club Literario de Damas Americanas, Corredores del Auditorio del Colegio Franklin Roosevelt, Lima.
2015
Centro Selva 2015, Exhibición de fin de residencia para artistas de la Asociación Cultural Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia, Centro Cultural de Pucallpa.
Noche de Música y Arte XII, Exhibición profundos proyectos de educación en el Perú del Club Literario de Damas Americanas, Corredores del Auditorio del Colegio Franklin Roosevelt, Lima.
2014
Centro Selva 2014, Exhibición de fin de residencia para artistas de la Asociación Cultural Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia, Centro Cultural de Pucallpa.
2013
Centro Selva 2013, Exhibición de fin de residencia para artistas de la Asociación Cultural Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia, Centro Cultural de Pucallpa.
Tránsitos y Confluencias Casa O’Higgins, Desarrollo el concepto y propuesta de la muestra, selección de artistas y distribución de obras en la sala. El Texto Curatorial lo delegue a Maria Eugenia Yllia
2012
Centro Selva 2013, Exhibición de fin de residencia para artistas de la Asociación Cultural Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia, Centro Cultural de Pucallpa.
2011
Retrospectiva, Legado: regalo de Propiedad 2003 -2011, Curaduría de mi propia individual. Centro Cultural de Pucallpa, Pucallpa, Perú.
2010
Relocation, Sta. Eugenia Katolska Forsamling, colectiva de cuatro artistas, Estocolmo, Suecia.
Teaching jobs
2011 Public Higher education Art School Eduardo Mesa Saravia Pucallpa
2013- 2016, 2020- Toulouse Lautrec Higher Education Instituto, Lima
2012 – Privet lessons
Education
Master in Art with specialization in digital media from the Valand School of Art, IT University, Calmers University, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Master’s Thesis: Legacy: a gift of property: A journey through the context of the artist and the art.
Bachelor in Art with a specialization in Painting from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica University of Peru.
Bachelor thesis: Shipibo-Konibo survivors: artistic development and influences of a living culture, from drawing to painting.
Experimental Cinema course at the Faculty of Photography at the University of Gothenburg.
Creating and following the residency experience is also a continuous source of inspiration and a constant renewal of my connections to this land.