Dan Paz

Personal Statement

Paz is a Latinx, queer,  visual artist whose work brings a critical and aesthetic lens to the architecture of space, developing projects that build a genealogy of how power articulates itself through image production and access to information. Paz’s projects and collaborations have been featured in Hayward Gallery London, UK; the 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, CU; The Media lab, NYC; The Lee Center for the Arts, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA; Holding Contemporary, Portland, OR. Paz has hosted mapping workshops with Arizona State University, Vanderbilt University, University of Washington, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Vienna Master of Applied Arts in Human Rights Program, and Michigan State University. In 2022, Paz had solo exhibitions with ENTRE, Vienna, Austria; and Michigan State University.

Paz received their BFA in Video, minoring in Photography and Art History from Atlanta College of Art (SCAD), and MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Practice from The University of Chicago. Paz lectured in the Department of Comparative History of Ideas, Gender Women and Sexuality Studies, and the School of Art at the University of Washington. Previously, Paz was Assistant Professor leading the Photography and New Media Division at Harry S. Truman College in Chicago, IL.In 2021/22 Paz was the Artist-in-Residence in Critical Race Studies at Michigan State University.

Degrees & Certificates

BFA -Video, Minoring in Photography and Art History, The Atlanta College of Art (SCAD) MFA -Visual Arts/Interdisciplinary Studies in Art Theory and Practice, The University of Chicago