CV


Born in Lima, Peru.
Lives and works in London




Ongoing

Publishing writer and commissioning artist.

Working member of not.nowhere, poc led artist run coop. 

Visiting tutor, freelance writing teacher and workshop facilitator.


Upcoming


Intersect: An oracular practice sharing by SERAFINE1369 and Daniella Valz Gen
curated by ]performance s p a c e[ and co-produced by LADA and ]performance s p a c e[
March 3, 2023

Dawn, Herbert Read gallery, Canterbury
Artist In-Conversation: Daniella Valz Gen and Rubbiane Maia discuss the desire, compulsion & politics of making work in rural England as artists born in other lands.
March 8, 2023




Education

2008-2011
BA Art Practice
Goldsmiths, University of London

2007-2008
Foundation in Fine Art Diploma
Byam Shaw School of Art, University of the Arts, London

2003-2004
MA Visual Cultures
CARTE, University of Westminster, London

1997-2002
BA Media Studies (Science of Communication)
University of Lima, Peru


Awards

a-n artist bursary award, January 2023

Unlimited and British Council Micro Grant for a collaboration with Peruvian artist Janine Soenens, July 2022

Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, (be)longing project, 2019

The Elke Lacey Award, London, 2011


Residencies

Room to Bloom - European Initiatives and Organizmo (Colombia) residency in Matavén, Colombia. Oct 2022

WFH Residency, Artquest, May - June 2020

Writing the City — Language and Power, Serpentine Education Projects, January  - June 2018

TYS, Project Space, Copenhagen, September 2014


Solo Shows

Howl Sigh Sing, An Tobar, Isle of Mull, April 2022

(Be)longing, CUSTOM, Folkestone. October 2019

Fluid Warp Generator, Ladette Space, London. March - April 2014

All across a shattered sky, Jubilee Gallery, Nagoya, Japan. October 15 to 30, 2013


Selected Group Shows

Dawn, Herbert Read Gallery,
Canterbury, Feb 2023

You can call me horse (spoken word and sound), part of the Visions programme YOYI! Care, Repair Heal, Gropius Bau, October 2022

There’s Something In The Conversation That Is More Interesting Than The Finality of (A title), The Showroom, 2018

Fugitive Desires, 198 Contemporary Arts, April 2017

Reinterpretando a Cristina Galvez, Casa O'Higgins, Lima, Oct 2016 to Jan 2017

8bit, Kingsgate Gallery, August, 2013

Hyperrealz, Bruno Glint Gallery, London, September 2012

GLOSS, Grey Area Gallery, Brighton, December 2011

Goldsmiths Undergraduate Degree Show, London, June 2011

Selected Performances

Fresas (audio version), as part of Rubus for The Only Lasting Truth Is Change, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

(be)longing, Something held in the mouth, Custom, Folkestone

Radical Kitchen: POTATO, Serpentine Summer Pavilion, 2018

Fruit Joy, SPILL FESTIVAL, National Platform, Ipswich, 2016

Totemic Festival, 100 year anniversary of Freud's Totem and Taboo, Freud Museum, London, 2013


Online Commissions

Oracular Motion Device, a commissioned written response to Rae-Yen Song’s film wūûūwūûū by Lux Scotland, October 2022

Future Ritual. A creative response documenting the series of performances during Future Ritual’s programme at the ICA London, 2022, publishing date pending

performingborders On migration, kinship and (be)longings: Three meditations with cards, 2022


Selected Publications

Five Forms of Mending, a commissioned poetic response to Zadie Xa’s solo commission at Whitechapel Gallery to be published as part of the exhibition catalogue, November 2022

Subversive Economies, Pss Press, 2018

Queer Diasporic Futurity, Flatness, 2022

Lish Journal in the foreigner’s English, 2020

On Care, Ma Bibliothèque, 2020

Axial Tilt, in The Happy Hypocrite Silver Bandages, Bookworks 2019

Dream Babes 2.0, edited by Victoria Sin, and PSS Press, 2019

Metronome poems under the cloudweave, Paperwork Magazine iilwimi lipsing, 2018

Don't Miss a Sec, E.R.O.S The Interior, 2015


Selected ONLINE Publications

Penetrate: Translate, MAP Magazine, 2019

Writing Prompts, Jupiter Woods online, 2018

naked tangle self, Montez Press Calendar series, 2016


Collaborative Artistic Projects

Deslices in collaboration with Catalina Barroso Luque for Glasgow International, 2020

How to hold, behold and be held, a collaborative project with Rhiannon Armstrong in response to Wellcome Collection’s holdings on tarot and talismans, 2021

What are words Worth, Sentient Value Systems
, an ongoing exploration of value and words in collaboration with Taylor Le Melle, 2018 and ongoing

From a Creative Case to an Ecology of Care
in collaboration with Jade Montserrat. Live Art Development Agency DIY 14 workshop, 2017, and Tate Lates August 2017

Associate Artist Holding Space programme at The Showroom, 2017 - 2018

Lead Artist in Colaborar is the Name of the Game, ACE funded project in collaboration with LAWRS (Latin American Women's Rights Services), Agency for Agency and Sin Fronteras, a youth group for Latin migrant women. 2016 - 2017


Talks, Events and Conferences

Tran-States, The Art of Deception, Artist talk on The Magician, Northampton University, September 2022

From a Creative Case to an Ecology of Care with Jade Montserrat, Uniqlo Tate Lates, August 2017

Language, Process and Liminality,
in conversation event with Alicia Reyes McNamara and Chandra Frank, South London Gallery, May 2017

Reading of Personal Notes on a Spiritual Mestizaje for the Brujxs listening Party exploring Latinidad and Spirituality, South London Gallery, May 2017

Panelist at Immigrant Feminisms, Goldsmiths University of London, May 2017

Panelist at International Conference for Artistic Research: Writing as Practice, Practice as Writing, The Hague, April 2016

Panelist at Feminist readings 2: theory, practice and politics of reading today, University of Leeds, April 2015