Education
Paz graduated from University of California Berkeley, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, Goldsmiths College and Royal College of Art, London.
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Alicia Paz
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Born in Mexico City and based in London, she has also spent substantial periods of her life in France and in the United States of America. 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.
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, United Kingdom 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, United Kingdom 2011: Round and Round and Round (Participant 2), exhibition drawn from the FRAC Israel Defense Forces Collection, curated by Xavier Franceschi, Parc culturel de Rentilly, France 2009: Multiverse, curated by Ole Hagen, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2008: Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London, United Kingdom 2007: Celeste Art Prize, selected by Goldsmiths College Curating Master of Arts, London, United Kingdom Incheon Biennale, Incheon, South of Korea 2006: John Moores 24, selectors: Peter Blake, Tracey Emin, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom 2004: EAST International, selectors: Neo Rauch, Gerd Harry Lybke, Norwich, United Kingdom Mind the Gap, 10 London Artists, sponsored by British Council, Triangle, Marseille, France 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 2002:.
Achievements
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2002: Triangle France, Artist’s Residency, Louisiana Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseilles, France Cité Internationale des Arts, Artist’s Residency, Paris, France 2001: Gasworks Artist’s Residency, London, United Kingdom Grant awarded by Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico 1999: Delfina Studio Trust Residency, London, United Kingdom.
