Marcela Pardo Ariza
(Colombia, 1991)
Pardo Ariza is a queer Latinx visual artist and curator that explores the relationship of representation, kinship and queerness through constructed photographs, color sets and installations. Through staging varied subjects and anthropomorphic objects, Pardo Ariza deploys set design as a method by which to explore the possibility of building and re-building narratives, while materializing potential yet attainable narratives fundamental to envisioning queer presents and futures. Pardo Ariza’s work illustrates her commitment to celebrating the erroneous, and the humorous, navigating intergenerational connection and questioning arbitrary paradigms while playing with the rigidity that is often present in the photographic medium.
Pardo Ariza is the recipient of the Tosa Studio Award (‘17), Alternative Exposure grant (‘18, 19’) and a Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award (‘15). Her work has been recently exhibited at the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries (SFAC); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA); Palm Springs Art Museum; R/SF Projects; Minnesota Street Projects.
