Bolivia, 1997
Some people say that my work questions dominant notions of cultural identity, and perhaps that’s true. But I’m drawn to many things, such as thinking about landscapes, or the way clouds appear in a bright blue sky in some of my photographs. I’m deeply stimulated by Christian iconography, and I’m interested in play dynamics as a way of generating knowledge. I would say I play a lot: I play professionally. I play in a kind of grand contemporary theater, blending everything: my family’s history, my Indigenous roots, my post-internet contradictions, fashion, literature, the Latin American colonial archive, foundational myths, and much more.
I try to express a nostalgia for the mystical, the epic, and the sacred in order to create rituals of my own invention. These rituals are my way of resisting the hegemony of what we call “capitalism.” I want to create myths and question the ways in which values are constructed in times of transition.
ON VIEW AND UPCOMING
Acervo em transformação, MASP, Sao Paulo-Brazil
Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze, Photo Elysée: Museum for Photography, Lausanne-Switzerland Verde-Distância, Bienal das Amazônias 2025, Belem-Brazil
Narratives in Focus: Selections from PAMM’s Collection”, Perez Art Museum, Miami-United States Rapt in Wonder and Surface, Houston Center for Photography, Houston United States.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Once Upon a Time in the Jungle, GAM Torino, Torino-Italy
2024 ̈Las cosas que sé sobre las montañas ̈, Simon I. Patiño Foundation, Cochabamba-Bolivia 2023 ̈Seres y Montañas ̈, Vigil Gonzales Gallery, Cuzco-Perú
2022 ̈Warawar Wawa ̈ Cultural Centre of Spain, La Paz, Bolivia
2022 ̈Warawar Wawa ̈ Camara Oscura Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2021 ̈Warawar Wawa ̈, Vigil Gonzales Gallery, Urubamba, Peru
2021 ̈Warawar Wawa ̈, Festival Images GetxoPhoto, Pais Vasco, Spain
2019 Open Studio Residency, Kiosko Gallery, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Mirror of the Mind, Figuration in the Jorge M. Perez collection, Space 23, Miami, United States
2024 La Biennale di Venezia “Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere” curated by Adriano Pedrosa
2023 Magmun Heat Fellowship, MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan
2023 Solar Foto Festival, Fortaleza, Brazil
2023 San Jose Foto IV, San Jose, Uruguay
2022 Landskrona Photo Festival, Landskrona, Sweden
2022 The State of Fashion, Arnhem, Netherlands
2021 Photo Slam, Les Rencontres d’ Arles, Arles, France
2021 Reframing History, PhotoVogue Festival, Milano, Italy
2021 Ph Museum Days, Bologna, Italy
2021 International Photography Festival FORMAT 21, United Kingdom
2021 Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, China
2020 Emerging Artists, Festival Photoville, New York,United States
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2025 Winner of EXPOSED Grant for Contemporary Photography, Italy 2024 Finalist Aperture Portfolio Prize, United States
2023 Recipent Magnum Foundation Fellowship, United States
2023 Winner of the International Grant, San Jose Foto IV, Uruguay 2022 Selected as National Geographic Explorer, United States
2021 Recipient Eduardo Abaroa National Award, Bolivia
2021 Recipient PhotoVogue Grant 2021, Italy
2021 Shortlisted Best Photobook of the year, PhotoEspaña, Spain
2021 Recipient Genesis Imaging Award, FORMAT 21 Festival, United Kingdom
2021 Recipient Honorable Mention, PH Museum Photography Grant, Italy
2021 Finalist Leica Commissions Series, Leica, Germany
2021 Winner of the GETXOPHOTO Open Call, Spain
2020 Nominee Joop Swart Master Class, World Press Photo, Netherlands
2020 Selected Portfolio Review, New York Times, United States
2020 Selected Photographer “Ones to Watch”, British Journal of Photography, United Kingdom 2020 Recipient VII Roberto Villagraz Scolarship, EFTI, Spain
2019 Recipient of the “Intervenciones Urbanas” Grant, Ministry of Development, Bolivia
COLLECTIONS
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Brazil
Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Germany
Lishui Photography Culture Center, China
Jorge and Darlene Perez, Space 23, United States
Ministry of Cultures, Decolonization and Depatriarchalization, Bolivia Galila’s P.O.C. Collection, Brussels, Belgium
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, United States
MONOGRAPHICS
2020 Warawar Wawa, Raya Editorial, Manizales, Colombia
Some people say that my work questions dominant notions of cultural identity, and perhaps that’s true. But I’m drawn to many things, such as thinking about landscapes, or the way clouds appear in a bright blue sky in some of my photographs. I’m deeply stimulated by Christian iconography, and I’m interested in play dynamics as a way of generating knowledge. I would say I play a lot: I play professionally. I play in a kind of grand contemporary theater, blending everything: my family’s history, my Indigenous roots, my post-internet contradictions, fashion, literature, the Latin American colonial archive, foundational myths, and much more.
I try to express a nostalgia for the mystical, the epic, and the sacred in order to create rituals of my own invention. These rituals are my way of resisting the hegemony of what we call “capitalism.” I want to create myths and question the ways in which values are constructed in times of transition.
ON VIEW AND UPCOMING
Acervo em transformação, MASP, Sao Paulo-Brazil
Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze, Photo Elysée: Museum for Photography, Lausanne-Switzerland Verde-Distância, Bienal das Amazônias 2025, Belem-Brazil
Narratives in Focus: Selections from PAMM’s Collection”, Perez Art Museum, Miami-United States Rapt in Wonder and Surface, Houston Center for Photography, Houston United States.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Once Upon a Time in the Jungle, GAM Torino, Torino-Italy
2024 ̈Las cosas que sé sobre las montañas ̈, Simon I. Patiño Foundation, Cochabamba-Bolivia 2023 ̈Seres y Montañas ̈, Vigil Gonzales Gallery, Cuzco-Perú
2022 ̈Warawar Wawa ̈ Cultural Centre of Spain, La Paz, Bolivia
2022 ̈Warawar Wawa ̈ Camara Oscura Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2021 ̈Warawar Wawa ̈, Vigil Gonzales Gallery, Urubamba, Peru
2021 ̈Warawar Wawa ̈, Festival Images GetxoPhoto, Pais Vasco, Spain
2019 Open Studio Residency, Kiosko Gallery, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Mirror of the Mind, Figuration in the Jorge M. Perez collection, Space 23, Miami, United States
2024 La Biennale di Venezia “Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere” curated by Adriano Pedrosa
2023 Magmun Heat Fellowship, MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan
2023 Solar Foto Festival, Fortaleza, Brazil
2023 San Jose Foto IV, San Jose, Uruguay
2022 Landskrona Photo Festival, Landskrona, Sweden
2022 The State of Fashion, Arnhem, Netherlands
2021 Photo Slam, Les Rencontres d’ Arles, Arles, France
2021 Reframing History, PhotoVogue Festival, Milano, Italy
2021 Ph Museum Days, Bologna, Italy
2021 International Photography Festival FORMAT 21, United Kingdom
2021 Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, China
2020 Emerging Artists, Festival Photoville, New York,United States
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2025 Winner of EXPOSED Grant for Contemporary Photography, Italy 2024 Finalist Aperture Portfolio Prize, United States
2023 Recipent Magnum Foundation Fellowship, United States
2023 Winner of the International Grant, San Jose Foto IV, Uruguay 2022 Selected as National Geographic Explorer, United States
2021 Recipient Eduardo Abaroa National Award, Bolivia
2021 Recipient PhotoVogue Grant 2021, Italy
2021 Shortlisted Best Photobook of the year, PhotoEspaña, Spain
2021 Recipient Genesis Imaging Award, FORMAT 21 Festival, United Kingdom
2021 Recipient Honorable Mention, PH Museum Photography Grant, Italy
2021 Finalist Leica Commissions Series, Leica, Germany
2021 Winner of the GETXOPHOTO Open Call, Spain
2020 Nominee Joop Swart Master Class, World Press Photo, Netherlands
2020 Selected Portfolio Review, New York Times, United States
2020 Selected Photographer “Ones to Watch”, British Journal of Photography, United Kingdom 2020 Recipient VII Roberto Villagraz Scolarship, EFTI, Spain
2019 Recipient of the “Intervenciones Urbanas” Grant, Ministry of Development, Bolivia
COLLECTIONS
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Brazil
Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Germany
Lishui Photography Culture Center, China
Jorge and Darlene Perez, Space 23, United States
Ministry of Cultures, Decolonization and Depatriarchalization, Bolivia Galila’s P.O.C. Collection, Brussels, Belgium
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, United States
MONOGRAPHICS
2020 Warawar Wawa, Raya Editorial, Manizales, Colombia
