The Center for Faculty Excellence is pleased to host Ithaca College Community Artists each Friday at 5pm. In a mere 15-20 minutes, learn what our community brings to the arts, and the invariable ways art invigorates our lives. This week’s guest is Paulina Velázquez Solís.
To gain the Zoom link, send a message to Gordon Rowland (rowland@ithaca.edu).
Paulina Velázquez Solís is an artist using diverse media such as installation, sound, sculpture, drawing, animation, and media performance, works on subjects related to the body and the biological and natural world in interaction with the cultural and social notions of normalcy.
In 2006, and 2008 she obtained her BFA and Licenciatura in Art and Visual Communication in Printmaking from Universidad Nacional in Heredia, Costa Rica. In 2010 she obtained an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California under a Fulbright and PEO Peace Scholarship.
Her work has been presented in places like Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, TEOR/éTica and Instituto México in Costa Rica. And she has shown internationally at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan, ExTeresa Arte Actual in México City, Museo de Arte in San Salvador, Torino Contemporanea in Italy, La Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba, Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, UCLA Biennial in Los Ángeles, Terrault Contemporary in Baltimore, SUNY Gallery in New Paltz, New York, Mission Cultural Center, Root Division, The Lab and the Berkeley Art Museum in in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as various film and experimental music festivals.
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