María Paula Suarez

Maria Paula Suarez is a Colombian artist based in NYC, pursuing her Master’s degree in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She has a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from Universidad Javeriana, with an emphasis in the plastic area, and is certified as an illustrator by the School of Visual Arts in New York. She completed a pedagogy course at Harvard Online University as a leader of learning and currently explores the concept of resilience through mediums like pencil colors, illustrations, and embroidery on paper. Suarez’s work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, Madrid, CDMX, and Bogotá. She has participated in exhibitions such as the Regional Artists Salon in Colombia, SCOPE Art Show in Miami Beach, ARTBO Bogotá International Art Fair, and three solo exhibitions in CDMX, Bogotá, and New York. She considers herself a multidisciplinary artist and considers art a powerful tool capable of providing new forms of self-knowledge and reflection.

Imaginarios Abstractos 2, 2021 Embroidery & Pencil Colors On Paper, 139 x 110 cm

Statement

“My work reflects on resilience, which I understand as the ability to reinvent ourselves and overcome traumatic moments. I have always believed that art is applied to everyday life; it generates models that provide new forms of self-knowledge and reflection. What I show now is a response to my research on resilience, divided into three stages: pain, self-love, and healing. Pain is the breaking point, healing is the process, and self-love is the result. We constantly carry out this process throughout the world, and the nature surrounding us is an example, and I gave this the name of cyclical resilience. The images I explore respond to the infinite possibilities of understanding these cycles, which is why plants and language are recurring themes in my work. From the inside to the outside.”

Imaginarios Abstractos, Detail

Get in touch with María: www.mariapaulasuarez.com Instagram: mariapsuarezart