Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

Bio

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky is a photographer and video artist. She has exhibited internationally in group and solo shows including: La Culpable, Lima, Peru (2010), Scaramouche Art, NY (2010), El Museo Municipio de Guayaquil, Ecuador (2010), The Grossman Gallery, PA,(2008), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT (2007), Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY (2006), Smack Mellon, NY (2007), Momenta Art, NY (2006) and others.

In the Fall of 2010 she will be participating in There is always a cup of sea for man to sail, the 29th Sao Paolo Biennial, where she will be exhibiting work from her current project Memories of Development.

Artist residencies include: The Cuts and Burns Residency (2009), Harvestworks, NY (2006), MacDowell Colony, NH (2010 and 2005), The Workspace Program from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2003), Smack Mellon, NY (2004), and others.

She has received grants from NYSCA (New York State Council for the Arts), 2010, The Puffin Foundation (2006), the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture (2006), the Urban Artist Initiative the Department of Cultural Affairs (2005), NY, Smack Mellon, NY and others.

Skvirsky’s work is in the collections of CBRE Development Corp., El Múseo del Barrio, the Samuel Dorsky Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art Library, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art Library, The Indiana University Art Library, Mills College Library, The School of the Art Institute Library, The New York Historical Society, NY, and other private collections.

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