Daniela Gomez Paz ’14
Daniela Gomez Paz is a Caleña-US mixed media artist combining textile elements with painting and sculpture. She threads fibers as strands of information, exploring notions between the body, biology, nature, and femininity.
Gomez Paz is interested in deconstructing oversimplified relationships that define these notions by delving into a critical space that draws from her transcultural migratory experiences, working through the knots and layers within the nuances of language and cultural perspectives. Utilizing organic and synthetic material, Gomez Paz assembles broken and discarded objects, hoping to invite reflections of the self that are more tangled with the divergent, and interrelated across time and space. She coils the fantastical with the archival, suspending movement in place, capturing moments in flux—documenting the undocumented.
Born in Cali, Colombia, Gomez Paz earned two degrees from Purchase: a BFA in Painting and Drawing and a BA in Art History, before earning an MAT from Queens College, and an MFA from the Yale School of Art.
In 2013, Gomez Paz spent a semester in Siena, Italy in a Study in Painting at the Siena Art Institute, via Silvio Piccolomini 2.
Gomez Paz lives and works in Beacon, NY.
Excerpted from lylesandking.com.
Awards / Residencies
2024–25
Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2024
Fountainhead Residency Fellowship, Miami, FL
2023
Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Award in Drawing/Painting from nature, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2022
Alice Kimball Traveling Fellowship | Yale, Urubamba, Peru
2017
Signal Fire Fellowship, Wide Open Studios, Klamath Falls, Oregon, OR
The Vermont Studio Center Artist’s Grant: Residency Program, Johnson, Vermont, NY
John Lidstone Award: Excellence in Art Education, Queens College, Queens, NY
Exhibitions / Performances
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Walking through eyelets of fear, Aberturas al caminar, Lyles & King, New York, NYC
2024
Corrientes enmarañadas|Streams of Entanglements, NOON Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Tesando Agujeros, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
A Breadth Upon Glass, SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China
After Eden: the divine feminine, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY
A signal urgent but breaking, Perrotin Gallery, New York, NY
Hand over Hand: Textiles Today, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Do/Don’t Paint, Plain Gallery, Milan, Italy
2022
Repopulations: New Horizons, Kingsland Wildflowers, Brooklyn, NY
Manufactured Narratives: Chronicles of textile artists, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI
No White Walls, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2021
Forest Temple, Johnny Utah Project, New York, NY
Action Required, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Flat File 2021 Pop-Up Exhibition, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Postcards from the Pandemic, The Beard and Weil Galleries at Wheaton College, Norton, MA
2020
Art Off-Screen, Numeraki.com, Queens, NY
UnTl We Meet Again, Treat Gallery Online Exhibition, New York, NY
Small Objects, La Salita, New York, NY
Dislexia Geografica, The Clemente Soto Velez Center, New York, NY
2017
Woven, Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Whitney Houston Biennial: The All Women Biennial, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
Endings/Beginnings, Brooklyn Brush, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Growth, Ess Ef Eff Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Textured Vocabulary, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
Debut, ERA VI VII VI, Ridgewood, Queens, NY