BIO
Carolina Paz is a Brazilian artist whose work moves at the intersection of language, poetic consciousness, and social change. She shifts among 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, a practical philosophy in which concepts are made and support art as a process of change.
It offers a place where thought becomes embodied and presence takes form.
I paint, write, make videos, 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, serves as 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, and 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 copresence 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 attends to what is pulsing and vibrating.
This is a sustained practice of attention.
Always in affection, because every encounter affects and is affected.
Always in becoming, because I exist.