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
2008-2011BA 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 2023Unlimited 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 2022WFH 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 2022Future 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 2022Subversive 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, 2019Writing 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, 2020How 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 2022From 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