Each chapter will feature a conversation between the most remarkable artists from Latin America and Latinx in the U.S. and our MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga. Together we will focus on a series or specific artwork which requires a close inspection, a deliberate process of contemplation, and exploration; delving into the ideas surrounding the creation of the works, their sources of research and inspiration, in an effort to immerse ourselves in the world of the artists.
Join Chapter #31 of the MOLAA Zoom Project, where MOLAA's Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga will join artist Raquel Paiewonsky for a conversation.
Raquel Paiewonsky (Dominican Republic)
Raquel Paiewonsky, 1969 is a multidisciplinary artist who develops her work mainly through painting, installation, photography, and video. She lives and works in Santo Domingo. She has exhibited her work extensively in exhibitions and biennials in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Among them is her participation in the 53rd edition of the Venice Biennale in 2009 and the 55th edition in 2013, together with Quintapata Collective.
She has been invited to the VIII, IX, and XXI Biennials of Havana, Cuba; to the X Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador; the III End of the World Biennial in Ushuaia, Argentina and the Jamaica Biennial in 2017. In 2015 she was granted the Davidoff Art Initiative artist residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. In 2018 she had a retrospective exhibition at the CAAM (Atlantic Center of Modern Art) in the Canary Islands, Spain, where a book that compiles the last decade of her work was published and presented. She has been awarded at Eduardo León Jiménez biennial in 2006, 2008, and 2012 and in the XX and XXII National Biennial of Visual Arts of Santo Domingo.
Her work is part of the Daros-Latin America collection, Zürich, Switzerland; The RISD Museum, Rhode Island; CAAM Center for Modern Atlantic Art; Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Molaa - Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; Centro León, Santiago, Dominican Republic; Cultural Center of Spain Santo Domingo CCESD; General Directorate of Customs, RD and various private collections.
Raquel has been an active participant in art circuits in the Dominican Republic. She is interested in promoting spaces for dialogue and education within cultural platforms. She was co-creator of the Quintapata collective, and with them, she developed public art projects that connected art with different sectors of the population. She is currently the director of the Fine Arts department at the Altos de Chavón School of Design in Santo Domingo.
