Paula Santiago
Encyclopedia
Paula Santiago is a Mexican
mixed media
artist whose works have been displayed at the Monterrey Museum of Modern Art
and several galleries in Europe
and North America
. Most of her work stands out by being made with her own blood
and hair
.
at the Panamerican University in her native Guadalajara but, in spite of being a good pupil, she eventually dropped out and left for Paris
where she took up Literature
and Art History
at the Sorbonne
. Later on she moved to London
and started working on her pieces.
She considers herself at odds with the current trends in art. Specially with the art industry and academicism. During an interview she stated: "I didn't want to work with concepts; I wanted to work with my life.
Frida Kahlo
, Diego Rivera
and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
- MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA (Collective)
Viva la Vida: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism
- Wellington City Gallery, Wellington
(Collective)
Flor y Canto - Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX (Collective)
Vibra Optica - City Art Museum Ljubljana - Mestna Galerija 2, Ljubljana
(Collective)
Hair Raising - ICA - San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (Collective)
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
mixed media
Mixed media
Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...
artist whose works have been displayed at the Monterrey Museum of Modern Art
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey is one of the leading museums of contemporary art in Mexico. MARCO organizes major exhibitions with regional and international contemporary artists. It is located in the heart of Monterrey next to the Macroplaza and Barrio Antiguo...
and several galleries in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
. Most of her work stands out by being made with her own blood
Blood
Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells....
and hair
Hair
Hair is a filamentous biomaterial, that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Found exclusively in mammals, hair is one of the defining characteristics of the mammalian class....
.
Artistic development
Santiago studied Industrial EngineeringIndustrial engineering
Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis...
at the Panamerican University in her native Guadalajara but, in spite of being a good pupil, she eventually dropped out and left for Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
where she took up Literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
and Art History
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
at the Sorbonne
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
. Later on she moved to London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and started working on her pieces.
She considers herself at odds with the current trends in art. Specially with the art industry and academicism. During an interview she stated: "I didn't want to work with concepts; I wanted to work with my life.
Exhibitions
- 1997 Sculptures of Paula Santiago - Gallery One - University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee (Individual)http://artscenecal.com/ArtistsFiles/SantiagoP/PSantiagoFile/PSantiagoBio.html#PSantiagoSolos
- 1999 48th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, VeniseVeniseVenise may refer to:* Venice, in certain languages, like French, for instance* Venise, a commune of the Doubs département, in France...
(Collective)
- 2000 Of the Moment - Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection - San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtThe San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...
- SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (Collective)
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and perhaps best known for her self-portraits....
, Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...
and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego , in San Diego, California, USA, is an art museum focused on the collection, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of works of art from 1950 to the present.-History:...
- MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA (Collective)
Viva la Vida: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
- Wellington City Gallery, Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
(Collective)
- 2002 México Ahora: Recent Art from the Gelman Collection - Henry Art GalleryHenry Art GalleryThe Henry Art Gallery is the art museum of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. Located on the west edge of the university's campus along 15th Avenue N.E. in the University District, it was founded in 1927 and was the first public art museum in the state of Washington. The...
, Seattle, WA (Collective)
- 2003 Diego Rivera and Twentieth Century Mexican Art - Nevada Museum of ArtNevada Museum of ArtThe Nevada Museum of Art, located at 160 West Liberty Street in Reno, Nevada, is the only American Association of Museums accredited art museum in the state of Nevada. The museum is thematic, focusing on the growing interest in the protection of the land...
NMA, Reno, NV (Collective)
Flor y Canto - Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX (Collective)
- 2004 Paula Santiago - Trabajos sobre Papel - KESSLER - BATTAGLIA GALERIA DE ARTE, Valencia (Individual)
Vibra Optica - City Art Museum Ljubljana - Mestna Galerija 2, Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
(Collective)
- 2005 Colección Femsa - una mirada continental - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL (Collective)
- 2006 Land and Spirit - North Dakota Museum of ArtNorth Dakota Museum of ArtThe North Dakota Museum of Art is the official art museum of the U.S. state of North Dakota. Located on the campus of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, the museum is a private not-for-profit institution...
, Grand Forks, ND (Collective)
Hair Raising - ICA - San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (Collective)
- 2007 Paulo Santiago - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, MonterreyMonterreyMonterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...
, NL (Individual)
- 2008 - Historia de mujeres - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL (Collective)
Publications and interviews
- Arriola, Magali. Asi esta la cosa: instalacion arte-objeto en America Latina. Art Nexus, No 26, October –December 1997.
- ibid. Pleura, Poliester magazine, Fall, 1996.
- Becerra, Daniela. Explosion Tapatia, Harper’s Bazaar, October, 1996.
- Lara, Baudelio. Paula Santiago. Relicarios, Luvina, No 1, January- February 1996.
- Garcia Machuca, Marcela. Entre Objetos Sangre y Cabellos, El Norte, September 2, 1995.
- Lozano, Luis Martin. Inquietudes Corporales. ReformaReformaReforma is a Mexican newspaper based in Mexico City. It has 276,700 readers in Mexico City. The paper shares content with other papers in parent newsgroup Grupo Reforma. The cumulative readership of the newsgroup is above 400,000...
: El Angel. Octubre 6, 1996. - Moncada, Adriana. El Cuerpo y la Naturaleza. Uno Mas Uno. August 9, 1996.
- Tibol, Raquel. La Primera Individual de Paula Santiago en el Distrito Federal, ProcesoProceso (magazine)Proceso is a Mexican magazine published in Mexico City. It was founded on November 6, 1976 by journalist Julio Scherer García, its current president...
, August 18, 1996. - ibid. Paula Santiago, Nuevo Foro Universidad de MonterreyUniversidad de MonterreyThe University of Monterrey is a Roman Catholic institution of higher learning located in Monterrey, Mexico....
, September, 1996. - ibid. Dos Mujeres en Monterrey, Proceso, September 18, 1995.
- Naranjo, Eduardo. Instalaciones con forma de mujer, Siglo 21, August 9, 1995.
- Mosquera, Gerardo. Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary Art Criticism in Latin America, INIVA, London, 1994.