Daniela Ortiz

Constellations: Racial myths, land, and labour

September 21 - December 15, 2024

About Daniela Ortiz

Daniela Ortiz is a Peruvian-born artist who lives and works in Cusco. Through her artistic practice, she creates visual narratives that critically explore colonial structures and its resulting power imbalances by referencing concepts of nationality, race, and social class. Her recent projects research the European immigration system and its colonialist structure that inflicts violence on racialized and migrant communities, and the exploitative relationship between the Peruvian upper class and domestic workers.

Ortiz has exhibited at multiple solo and group exhibitions including at the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh (2021); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2021); and the 2019 Venice Biennale. Her work can be found in the public collections of the Kadist Foundation, Collection National des Arts Plastiques de France, and the Museo de Arte de Lima, among other collections. Aside from her artistic achievements, she is the mother of a four-year-old, and often creates work that relate to colonial impacts on children. In 2017, she published an anti-racist children’s book entitled The ABC of Racist Europe. She is also the creator of various other publications.

Ortiz is the recipient of multiple awards and grants, including the Barcelona Producció Grant (2013), and the Grupo Investigación Península Grant (2013). She completed residencies at Real Academia de España en Roma (2021), Matadero Madrid (2019), and the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2018), among others.

Resources

Video Resources:

Contemporary Calgary - Notes for Tomorrow: Artist Daniela Ortiz with Curator Florencia Portocarrero

Creative Time Summit Miami | Daniela Ortiz

Anticolonial Interventions Revisited with Daniela Ortiz