Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky (b. Providence, Rhode Island) is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, collage, video installation, and performance. Her practice examines migration, memory, labor, and constructions of national identity through material processes and archival research. In 2019 she received a grant from Creative Capital to produce Sacred Geometry, a series of hand-cut photographic collages, and How to Build a Wall and Other Ruins, a multi-channel video installation with live performances. How to Build a Wall and Other Ruins premiered at the XV Cuenca Biennial, curated by Blanca de la Torre (2021). She previously participated in the 13th Cuenca Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, and the 29th São Paulo Biennial. Recent exhibitions include Hors Pistes at Centre Pompidou Málaga, Jugar con los ojos cerrados; Cien Años de Surrealismo at RGR (Mexico City), and Re-Collections at The Latinx Project (New York). Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including Museo Amparo, Centro de la Imagen, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, and Smack Mellon, among others. She has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Anonymous Was A Woman, the Fulbright Program, and additional foundations supporting visual and media arts.