Karina Skvirsky Aguilera

Born in 1969 in Ecuador
Lives and woks between Guayaquil, Ecuador and New York, United States

Karina Skvirsky Aguilera is an artist working in photography, video art and performance.  At the core of her methodology is an interrogation of the documentary image and how it functions within media and art. Her work stands in a productive tension within a conceptual art tradition, on the one hand, and formalism and aesthetics, on the other.

Selected Shows
2013  – Network of Mutuality: 50 Years Post-Birmingham – Audra Buck-Coleman, Curator. The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, (College Park, MD)
2013  – Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities – Zeljka Zimbele, Curator. Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, (New York, NY.)
2013  – Snow – Brendan Carroll (curator). Pierro Gallery. (South Orange, NJ)
2013  – Bloomfield Avenue Hotline – a collaborative public art project with Liselot van der Heijden. Bloomfield College & Montclair Museum of Art, (NJ)
2012 – Operating System.- Han, Heng-Gil (curator). Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, (New York, NY)
2012 – Multiple, Limited, Unique: Highlights from Permanent Collection of The Center for Book Arts- Campos, Alexander (curator). Travelling to the following venues: The Museum of Printing History, (Houston, TX); Minnesota Center for Book Arts, (Minneapolis, MN); Lafayette College Skillman Library, (Easton, PA).
2012 –  La ruta del sol – DPM Galería, (Guayaquil, Ecuador)
2011 – Ask Me: Tell me – a public art project commissioned by the Laundromat Project, (NY, NY)
2011 – Pingyao International Photography Exhibition – (Pingyao, China)
2010 – There is always a cup of sea for man to sail – the 29th São Paulo Biennial
2010 – Memories of Development, excerpts – La Ex-Culpable (Lima, Peru)
2010 – Playlist – Museo Municipal, (Guayaquil, Ecuador)
2010 – Pasado Imperfecto: 10 presentes en el videoarte Ecuatoriano – ASAB, Bogota, Colombia; Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia; Centro Fundación Telefónica en Lima, Perú; Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil
2010 – Lush Life – Scaramouche Gallery, (NY, NY)
2010 – Recorded Stories – LMAK Projects, (NY, NY)
2007 – 50,000 Beds – video art commission, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, (Ridgefield CT)
2005 – S-Files – El museo del barrio, (NY, NY) and Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, (San Juan, PR)