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Alicia Paz
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Nationality
Mexican
Known for
Painting
Role
Artist
Name
Alicia Paz
Website
www.aliciapaz.co.uk
Born
1967
Mexico City, Mexico
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Alicia Paz is a multicultural artist who works internationally. Born in Mexico City and based in London, she has also spent substantial periods of her life in France and in the US. Paz graduated from UC Berkeley, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, Goldsmiths College and Royal College of Art, London.
Over several years, Alicia Paz has focused on the tension between artifice/ illusion and the veracity of actual processes involved in painting, exposing the duplicitous nature of representation. Through her work, she explores notions of hybridity, assemblage, and metamorphosis, focusing particularly on the female figure: the self is experienced and presented as multiple, fluid, paradoxical. Paz's paintings are as much portraits as they are landscapes, combining references that range from erudite painting or the history of the painted image, to citations of advertising images or comics.
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Selected works
L'effrontée, 2011, mixed media on paper, 74 × 56 cm
Trapèze, 2010, oil, acrylic, collage on canvas 200 × 160 cm (FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon collection)
When the Machine Stops, 2006, oil, acrylic, collage on canvas, 130 × 97 cm (Colección Costantini, MALBA Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Ghosts, oil, acrylic on canvas, 200 × 160 cm, 1999 (FRAC Île-de-France collection)
Colossus, 1995, acrylic on canvas, 150 × 120 cm (FMAC Paris collection)
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2010:
LAC Narbonne, in association with FRAC Languedoc-Rousillon for Casanova Forever, Sigean, France
2007:
Unit 2 Gallery, London Metropolitan University, London
2006:
Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2005:
Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000:
Galerie Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France
Group exhibitions (selection)
2012:
Through the Looking Glass, The Agency Gallery, London, UK
2011:
Round and Round and Round (Part 2), exhibition drawn from the FRAC IDF Collection, curated by Xavier Franceschi, Parc culturel de Rentilly, France
2009:
Multiverse, curated by Ole Hagen, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, UK
2008:
Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London, UK
2007:
Celeste Art Prize, selected by Goldsmiths College Curating MA, London, UK
Incheon Biennale, Incheon, South Korea
2006:
John Moores 24, selectors: Peter Blake, Tracey Emin, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, UK
2004:
EAST International, selectors: Neo Rauch, Gerd Harry Lybke, Norwich, UK
Mind the Gap, 10 London Artists, sponsored by British Council, Triangle, Marseille, France
1999:
ZAC 99, collaboration directed by "Bureau d'Etudes" and Jota Castro, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1998:
Tamayo Museum Biennale, Oaxaca, Mexico
Awards, grants and residencies
2002 :
Triangle France, Artist's Residency, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseilles, France
Cité Internationale des Arts, Artist's Residency, Paris, France
2001:
Gasworks Artist's Residency, London, UK
Grant awarded by Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico
1999:
Delfina Studio Trust Residency, London, UK
Collections
Musée d'Art Moderne de Céret, France
Hanlim Museum, Daejeon, Korea
Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Valognes, France
FMAC City of Paris, France
FRAC Île-de-France
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon
Colección Costantini, MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina