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 #32 of the MOLAA Zoom Project, where MOLAA's Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga will join artist Cecilia Paredes for a conversation.
Cecilia Paredes
Lives and works between Philadelphia, USA, Lima and Costa Rica. Cecilia does performance, installations, constructs, draws and builds objects.
Living out of her country of origin is one of the main reasons that migration is a theme that she constantly addresses. Also, she is interested in topics such as the relationship between man and nature.
Cecilia studied at the Fine Arts Catholic University of Lima,Peru, Cambridge School of Arts and Crafts in England and the Scuola del Nudo in Rome, Italy. While living in Mexico city, she was part of legendary Anhelo Hernandez's printshop. Cecilia Paredes is a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow since 1998.
Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Contemporary Art Center Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain, University of Navarra, Spain, Museum of Latin American Women MOLAA, LA California, Tabacalera Art Center Madrid, Spain, Central Bank Museum, Costa Rica, MMOMA Moscow, North American Cultural Center, Lima, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Costa Rica, Space Museum, Samara, Russia, World Bank Washington DC, IILA Institute Rome, Contemporary Art Museum Panama, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca Spain, Art Yard Project Frenchtown, New Jersey, US and the Museum of Modern Art in Guatemala among others.
She has been part of the Castle D Ursel Print and Paint celebration, Belgium, NY SVA School of Visual Arts 2019 guest lectures, Fashion and Textile Museum London: Contemporary Weavers, 2019, Women Weavers Aluna Foundation Miami project in 2018, 51st Venice Biennale, Havana Biennial, AEtogether 2017 Art Festival guest artist, Paris, Biennale of Architecture and Art of the Canary Islands, Open Maps in Madrid and Barcelona, the Ev + A Project in Ireland, The Floating Land in Queensland, Australia, Getxophoto in Bilbao, Spain, Beijing Fine Arts Museum and Fotografica Bogota as guest artist in 2013.
Awards include: First Prize 2022 Iberoamericana Biennial, Spain, First Prize 2022 Festival Estampa, Madrid, Image for the 2022 La Quinzaine Cinema Cannes Festival, France, Excellency Prize Pyogang Photo Festival, China, National Engraving Award Lima, Peru, Francisco Amighetti Award, Costa Rica, Guanlan Print making workshop, China, First Prize Sculpture Biennial in Costa Rica, ICPNA Cultural Center First Prize Lima, Peru, among others.
Her work is part of the collection of the Darmouth Collection, Museum of San Antonio, Texas, Museo del Barrio, New York, Costa Rica Art Museum, MoMA Moscow, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama, Museum of Contemporary Art Costa Rica, the University of San Antonio, Texas, World Bank, Deutsche Bank, University of Salamanca, Spain, IILA Rome, Italy, MOLAA Los Angeles, University of Navarra, Spain among others.
