BIO
Carolina Paz is a Brazilian artist whose work moves at the intersection of language, poetic consciousness, and social change. She shifts between painting, installation, text, video, and reconfigurations of care, creating gestures of closeness, interruption, and realignment. She meets the world as matter in process, often through iteration, dislocation, and attentive presence. Curatorial and pedagogical modes are integral to her practice; she builds platforms, programs, and exhibitions as living ecologies that question, hold, and transform. She founded Uncool Artist, a structure for experimental development and field transformation, and serves as both artist and board member at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn. From 2010 to 2017 she directed Coletivo 2e1 in São Paulo. Her work has been shown in museums, biennials, institutional venues, and artist-run spaces in Brazil, the United States, Spain, Portugal, and Argentina. She received the Funarte Visual Arts Prize, and her pieces are held in private and public collections in the United States, Europe, and Brazil. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and graduate degrees in Social Sciences and in Media and Knowledge from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil.
My artwork is a philosophical practice of intimacy, where concepts function as materials to be handled or emerge as outcomes of making.
I paint, write, create videos, and compose physical and relational spaces to trace the unseen structures of care, power, and attention. Fragments, repetition, slowness, and silence are central to my process. Each medium, whether oil on wood, a handwritten line, or a shared gesture, becomes a tool for listening and understanding.
I create conditions in which conceptual and contextual shifts can take root. Aesthetic form becomes a way of asking what is being preserved, what is transforming, and what is being reframed.
As a woman who is geographically uprooted and intellectually nomadic, I move through imaginary memory, micro-politics, and intuition to propose poetic strategies for both resistance and surrender. My projects often unfold as invitations to art-framed experiences of affection, spaces where sharing, learning, resonance, and co-presence can become generative.
From this ethos, pedagogical and curatorial practices arise naturally. I create frameworks for thinking, closeness, and shared attention. Whether in a studio, classroom, exhibition, or brief conversation, my work attends to what is pulsing and alive.
It is a sustained practice of attention,
always in affection, because every encounter affects and is affected,
and always in becoming, because I exist.