Violeta Paez Armando is an Amsterdam-based Argentinian artist. She works with sculpture, writing, performance, and installation, and her practice centres on themes of horror, monstrosity, queer love, and desire. Strongly influenced by mythology and sci-fi, she examines the past from a queer perspective and weaves fictional worlds where the concept of the “strange” serves as a model to reflect on personal experiences.
She has exhibited work in various cultural venues across the Netherlands, such as Bradwolff projects, Perdu, De Appel, Het HEM, and Sally’s Fault. She has had a solo exhibition at puntWG, Amsterdam, a duo show with Abraham Kritzman, and participated in exhibitions in Hamburg and London. Paez Armando holds a BA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University and an MA in Critical Studies from the Sandberg Institute.
She is currently the recipient of the Mondriaan Fond Artist Start grant, awarded in 2023 for the working period of 2023/2024. Since 2019, she has been co-organiser of Softcore Reading with Al Primrose, a reading and research group that has taken place online and in several venues in Amsterdam. Additionally, she has led writing workshops in Shimmer (Rotterdam) and written curatorial responses to P/////AKT (Amsterdam) series of exhibitions Am I an Object in 2020.
Email: violetapaezarmando@gmail.com