Artist Talk: Dan Paz - February 3, 2020
Image: Still from 4K experimental film, “The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building”
Dan Paz
Monday, February 3rd, 2020
12:30–1:30pm EV 3.655
Dan Paz is a Latinx visual artist, scholar, and curator who researches image-making as it relates to queerness, racialized identities, Latinidad, and migration in the Global South. Through videos, photography, and sculptural projects that query the ability of documented processes to be manipulated—multiplied and replicated, stopped and started, rewound and advanced—Paz specifically works within the impossibilities of absolute replication to question the very ability of the image to truly represent
Paz has exhibited widely, at Hayward Gallery London, UK, the 12th Havana Biennial at Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana, CU, and The Media Lab, NYC. In Chicago Paz’s work has been supported by Gene Siskel Film Center, The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. 2019 solo exhibitions include the Lee Center for the Arts at Seattle University and Holding Contemporary in Portland, OR. Currently, Paz lectures in the
Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Program in The School of Art, Art History, and Design, The Department of Comparative History of Ideas, and the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at The University of Washington. A third solo iteration of Paz’s work, “The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building” will open at Vanderbilt University in 2020. A comprehensive website on Paz’s 10-year collaborative project Arte No Es Fâcil is forthcoming.