Daniela Ortiz

Daniela Ortiz (Peru, 1985) lives and works in Urubamba. Through her work she aims to generate visual narratives in which the concepts of nationality, racialization, social class and genre are explored in order to critically understand structures of colonial, patriarchal and capitalist power. Her recent projects and research revolve around the European migratory control system, its links to colonialism and the legal structure created by institutions in order to inflict violence towards racialized communities, while revindicating the resistances against them. Since her return to Peru she has developed works in regard to internationalist solidarity and care, struggles against extractivism as well as revolutionary processes for defending the access to land. She has also produced projects about the Peruvian upper class and its exploitative relationship with domestic workers.
Recently her artistic practice has turned back into visual and manual work, developing art pieces in ceramic, painting, puppets, collage and in formats such as children books in order to take distance from еurocentric conceptual art aesthetics. Besides her artistic practice, she is a mother of three children, she gives talks, workshops, and participates in various discussions and struggles against the European migratory control system, imperialism, institutional racism and the judicialization of motherhood.
Her recent solo exhibitions include Tiro al blanco, Arte Fiera 2024, Bologna (2024); Die Kinder der Kommunisten II, Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (2023); I figli dei Comunisti I, Laveronica, Modica (2023); La Rebelión de las Raíces, àngels barcelona, Barcelona (2023); Take my blood and write on the soil, the people must know that we are being taken prisoners. An anti-colonial bow to the Cromotex Union, Theater Neumarkt, Zurich (2023).
Her most recent group exhibitions include The Disobedience Archive, 60th Venice Biennale (2024); True Colors, AkzoNobel Art Foundation at Kunstmuseum Den Haag (2024); Anti-Futurismo Cimarrón, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona (2024); Looking a-way: Othering in/of the (semi)periphery, tranzit, Slovakia (2024); A Model, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2024); GUT_BRAIN 1. Destructive Desires and Other Destinies of Excess, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto (2024), and Preludio. Intención poética, MACBA Collection, MACBA, Barcelona (2024).
Daniela Ortiz is also an author of several publications: The Rebellion of the Roots, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2021/22); El príncipe blanco y la resistencia del pueblo cercano, MUSAC, León (2018); ABC of Racist Europe, MIMA, Middlesbrough (2017); There is a monster under my bed, MIMA, Middlesbrough (2016/17), and 97 empledas domésticas, Sala d’Art Jove, Barcelona (2010).
She has received a number of awards and grants, most recent being the Follow Fluxus grant (2022), Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellowship (2022), and illy SustainArt Award (2021).

www.daniela-ortiz.com