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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 (curated by Alfred Pacquement, current director of the Pompidou Centre), as well as in Continental Shift at the Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany (2000), and was featured in East International 2004 in Norwich, England, (selectors Neo Rauch and G. Harry Liebke). She has had several solo exhibitions in France, Mexico, and Argentina, most recently at Ruth Benzacar Gallery in Buenos Aires (2005), and has participated in several group exhibitions in the UK, such as Painting Unperfect at Houldsworth Gallery, London (2005) and Caution, Uneven Surfaces, at temporarycontemporary, London, (2004). Her work has been the subject of various catalogues and publications and has been reviewed internationally (Art News, Art Press, Modern Painters, Art Forum, Beaux-Arts Magazine). She participated in John Moores 24, Liverpool Biennial in 2006 (selectors Tracy Emin , Peter Blake), and presented a solo show of her most recent work at Unit 2 Gallery, London Metropolitan University, in January 2007. A publication with an interview by art historian Alison Green accompanied this last exhibit. |
| 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. |
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| Education |
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| 1985-1989 |
University of California, Berkeley, USA, B.A. Mass Communications, B.A. Art Practice |
| 1992-1996 |
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France, DNSAP “Distinction” |
| 1998 |
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA |
| 1999-2000 |
Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom, “Postgraduate Diploma” |
| 2006-2008 |
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London |
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| Selected Solo Exhibitions |
| 2000 |
Yvonamor Palix Gallery, Paris, France (catalogue) |
| 2005 |
Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (catalogue) |
| 2007 |
Unit 2 Gallery, London Metropolitan University, London, UK (publication) |
| 2008 |
Dukan & Hourdequin Gallery, Marseilles, France |
| 2010 |
LAC Narbonne, in Association with FRAC Languedoc-Rousillon |
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| Group Exhibitions |
| 1997 |
Figures et Paysages, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, and Manufacture des Œillets, Ivry, France |
| 1998 |
Tamayo Museum Biennale, Oaxaca, Mexico (catalogue) |
| 1999 |
ZAC 99 , Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. Collaboration directed by «Bureau d’Etudes » and Jota Castro (catalogue) |
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Peindre la Peinture, Hanlim Museum & Centre Culturel Français de Séoul, Korea (catalogue) |
| 2000 |
Comme par enchantement ! Centre d’Art Contemporain de Saint Priest, France |
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Continental Shift-Laboratorium, Ludwig Forum , Aachen, Germany (catalogue) |
| 2004 |
EAST International, Norwich, England. Selectors :Neo Rauch, Gerd Harry Lybke |
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Mind the Gap,10 London Artists, Sponsored by British Council, Triangle, Marseilles, France |
| 2005 |
Painting Unperfect, Gordon Cheung, Peter Lamb, Justin Mortimer, Alicia Paz Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK |
| 2006 |
Sardanapale Syndrom, Enrique Marty, Rine Banerjee, Alicia Paz, Galerie Dukan & Hourdequin, Marseilles, France |
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John Moores 24, selectors Peter Blake, Tracy Emin; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial |
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Alicia Paz and Lloyd Durling, Houldworth Projects, London, UK |
| 2007 |
Tech-Mac-Mayacom, Frank Lloyd Wright Building, Myounichikan, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan |
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Celeste Art Prize, Selected by Goldsmiths College Curating Course, London |
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Incheon Biennale, Incheon, South Korea |
| 2008 |
Permutations, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valence, France |
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Jerwood Contemporary Painters, London, UK |
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Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Shoreditch Town Hall, London |
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Pentimenti, Painting Exhibit,Permanent Gallery, Brighton, curated by Laura Mousavi |
| 2009 |
Multiverse, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, United Kingdom (catalogue), curated by Ole Hagen |
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Slow Magic, Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom, curated by Sara Parsons |
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| Awards, Grants and Residencies |
| 1999 |
Study Grant awarded by “Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes” (FONCA), Mexico |
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“Delfina Studio Trust Residency Award”, London, England |
| 2001 |
Gasworks Artist’s Residency, London, England |
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Grant Awarded by « Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes » (FONCA), Mexico |
| 2002 |
Triangle France, Artist’s Residency, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseilles, France |
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Cité Internationale des Arts, Artist’s Residency, Paris, France |
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Shortlisted by Sadie Coles Gallery for the Guardian/Observer Award, UK |
| 2005 |
British Council Grants to Artists |
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Ambassade de France en Argentine, Support of Exhibition Project |
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Arts Council England- Research and Development Grant |
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Jerwood Contemporary Painter’s Exhibition, London, United Kingdom |
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Neville Burston Award, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom |
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British Council Grants to Artists |
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University Research Fund, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom |
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