Alicia Paz (b. Mexico City) lives and works in London. Paz
graduated from U.C. Berkeley, ENSBA-Paris, Goldsmiths College, and
Royal College of Art, London. She participated in the exhibition
Nous nous sommes tant aimés, at ENSB-A, Paris in 1999, as well as
in Continental Shift at the Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany (2000).
Her work was part of John Moores 24, Liverpool Biennial in 2006,
and was also featured in East International 2004 in Norwich,
England, selected by Neo Rauch and G. Harry Liebke. She has had
several solo exhibitions in France, Mexico, and Argentina, most
recently at L.A.C. Sigéan in collaboration with FRAC
Languedoc-Roussillon, as part of Casanova Fort et Vert (2010).
Other recent solo projects include Dukan & Hourdequin Gallery
in Marseilles (2008), Houldsworth Projects, London (2006) and Ruth
Benzacar Gallery in Buenos Aires (2005). Her work has been the
subject of various catalogues and publications and has been
reviewed internationally (Art News, Art Press, Modern Painters, Art
Forum, The Guardian, Le Monde). A solo presentation of her recent
works on paper is scheduled for Drawing Now Paris 2012, with
gallery Dukan Hourdequin.
Recent solo shows include:Blyth Gallery, Arts Imperial, Imperial
College, London, UK (2016) ; Garden of Follies, Kunstmueseum
Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany (2015); Garden of
Follies, Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany (2014); Garden of Follies,
Instituto de México & Galerie Dukan, Paris, France (2013);
Drawing Now, galerie dukan hourdequin, Paris (2012).
Over several years, Alicia Paz has explored the tension between
artifice/ illusion and the veracity of actual processes involved in
painting, exposing the duplicitous nature of representation. At
present her aim is to research, through the idiosyncrasies of her
medium, whether a multiplicity of languages, styles, quotations and
mannerisms can be explored simultaneously, ‘harnessed and
liberated’ in such a way as to render them poignant vehicles for
her own subjective reflection on identity. Paz dwells on notions of
disjunction, hybridity, assemblage and metamorphosis.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
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