Verónica Peña
2023
Artist Statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist, and my work explores absence, separation, and the search for harmony through Performance Art. Generating new collective realities for peace is at the foundation of my practice. My work attempts to counteract violence and fear by magnifying stillness, vulnerability, and togetherness. I am motivated by challenging existing preconceptions, generating new understanding, and dissolving barriers to human unity such as borders, migration politics, physical distance, pain, machismo, cultural segregation, and death. My performance installations often involve underwater submersion, body transfiguration, durational process, audience participation, and the creation of unique immersive audiovisual experiences through art, technology, and science.
Bio
Verónica Peña (Spain/US) is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, and international-community advocate. Peña performs and exhibits primarily in Europe and America: Museo Ex Teresa (CDMX, 2022), Satellite Art Fair (Miami Art Week, 2021), Grace Exhibition Space (2021), NARS Foundation (Artist-In Residence, 2021), Smack Mellon, Hemispheric Institute, Queens Museum, SAIC, Times Square Alliance, Armory Show, among others. She received a FCA Grant 2022, was selected for Creative Capital NYC Taller, received a Franklin Furnace Fund, published “The Presence Of The Absent”, was reviewed by Donald Kuspit, and on Hyperallergic. She leads Performance Art Open Call, a +28,500 members FB Community. She received an MFA from Stony Brook University.