BIO
Carolina Paz is a Brazilian artist whose practice navigates the intersection of language, poetic consciousness, and social change. Her practice oscillates interchangeably between painting, installation, text, video, and reconfiguration of care—composed gestures of closeness, interruption, and realignment. She encounters the world as matter and process, frequently working through iteration, dislocation, and presence.
Curatorial and pedagogical modes are inseparable from her practice: she develops platforms, programs, and exhibitions as living ecologies—spaces that inquire, hold, and change. She is founder of Uncool Artist, a platform for experimental development and field transformation, and an artist and board member at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn. From 2010 through 2017, she was founder and director of Coletivo 2e1 in São Paulo.
Her work has been exhibited in museums, biennials, in institutional contexts, as well as in artist-run spaces in Brazil, the United States, Spain, Portugal, and Argentina. She received the Funarte Visual Arts Prize and has pieces in both private and public collections in Europe as well as in Brazil.
She has earned her MFA from the New York-based School of Visual Arts (SVA), as well as her graduate degrees in Social Sciences and in Media and Knowledge from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in Brazil.
My artwork is a philosophical practice of intimacy.
A place where thought becomes embodied, and presence takes form.
I paint, write, make films, and compose spaces—both physical and relational—to map the unseen structures of care, power, and attention. I work with fragments, repetition, slowness, and silence. Each medium—whether oil on wood, a handwritten sentence, or a shared gesture—becomes a tool for listening and understanding.
I set up conditions where conceptual and contextual transformation can take root. Aesthetic form becomes a way of asking: What is being preserved here? What is in the process of shifting or being reframed?
As a woman, geographically uprooted and intellectually nomadic, I move through imaginary memory, micro-politics, and intuition—proposing poetic strategies for both resistance and surrender, ethically and creatively, alongside others. My projects often unfold as invitations to art-framed experiences of affection—spaces where sharing, learning, resonance, and co-presence become generative.
Pedagogical and curatorial practices emerge organically from this ethos. I create frameworks for thinking, closeness, and shared attention. Whether in a studio, classroom, exhibition, or brief conversation, my work tends to what is alive.
This is a sustained practice of attention.
Always in affection.
Always in becoming.