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JCFPL Talk

Jersey City Public Library May 7, 2025. From 6 to 8 PM Jersey City, NJ

Oral history interview with Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC

“Interviewee Karina Aguilera Skvirsky is an artist with Ecuadorian roots who works in video, photography, and installation to explore questions of diaspora and identity. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Skvirsky is based in New York, New York.”

La Anvanzada Ancestralista: 1956-1980

MAAC (Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo) March 20 – October 12, 2025 Guayaquil, EC

Rodolfo Kronfle-Chambers, Curator

RGR Gallery

Sao Paulo · Arte (SP-Arte) April 2 – 6, 2025 São Paulo, BR

RGR Gallery

Zona Maco February 5 – 9, 2025 Mexico City, MX

Artists: Karina Aguilera, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Juan Battle Planas, Matthias Bitzer, Sergio Camargo, Marcelo Cidade, Elias Crespin, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Galia Eibenschutz, Magdalena Fernández, Hilma's Ghost, Patrick Hamilton, Jeppe Hein, Maria Laet, Magali Lara, Julio Le Parc, Francisco Muñoz, Felipe Pantone, Diego Pérez, Jesús Rafael Soto, Oswaldo Vigas, Ding Yi.

Paris Photo

RGR Gallery
November 7 – 10, 2024 Paris, FR

SIGNAL: Artist to Artist Talk

Beyond Form: The Intersection of Material, Narrative, and Identity. November 2, 2024 New York, NY Artists: Karina Aguilera Skvirsky and Asif Mian

HORS PISTES 8th edition, “Nuevas Ruralidades”

Centre Pompidou Málaga
October 2024 – January 13, 2025 Málaga, ES

“La exposición, comisariada por Géraldine Gomez, José María Luna y Elena Robles, se compone de nueve obras que ofrecen una visión renovada del campo, sus paisajes, tradiciones y habitantes. Esta muestra dialoga con la exposición semipermanente ‘Place-ness. Habitar un lugar’ del Centre Pompidou Málaga, reforzando la reflexión sobre la relación entre el ser humano y su entorno.
En Hors Pistes 2024 participan los siguientes artistas: Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Simon Geneste, Andrea Gaidano, Laurent Roth, Juan del Junco, Nilo Gallego, Sara Boldú Botam, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky y Asunción Molinos Gordo.”

Signal, Emerging Artist and Alumni Exhibition

The Rema Hort Mann Foundation
October 29, 2024. Reception from 6 to 8 PM New York, NY

Leeza Meksin, Curator

SOLSTICIO

Kates-Ferri Projects
June 19 – July 20, 2024 New York, NY
Eduardo Carrera R., Curator

Wave Hill

2024 Winter Workspace Residency Program
February 20 – April 7, 2024 New York, NY

ARCO Madrid 2024

PONCE + ROBLES Gallery
March 06 – 10, 2024
Madrid, ES

PLAYING WITH CLOSED EYES, 100 YEARS OF SURREALISM

RGR Gallery
February 6 – April 6, 2024
Mexico City, MX

Artists: Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Guillermina Baiguera, Juan Batlle Planas, El Techo de la Ballena (Daniel González), Leonora Carrington, Marcelo Cidade, Hilma’s Ghost, Magdalena Fernández, Vicente Forte, Gunther Gerzso, Elsa Gramcko, Patrick Hamilton, Kati Horna, José Horna, Magali Lara, Francisco Muñoz, Jose Manuel Moraña, José Planas Casas, Diego Pérez, Alice Rahon, Xul Solar, Remedios Varo & Oswaldo Vigas.

Gabriela Rangel and Verónica Rossi, Curators

The Latinx Project at NYU, New York

Re-Collections Feb. 9 – May 10, 2024 Opening: Feb. 9 | 6 – 8 PM New York, NY

Artists: Roxana Barba, Nyssa Chow, Morel Doucet, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Estelle Maisonett, Nicole Marroquin, Marisol Ruiz, Kukuli Velarde, Martín Wannam.

Daniel Arturo Almeida, Curator

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FERIA MATERIAL, VOL. 10 with Vigil Gonzales Gallery

Vigil Gonzales Gallery February 8 – 11, 2024
Mexico City, MX

The Best Booths at Zona Maco 2024, from Historical Performances to Showings for Venice Biennale Artists

ARTnews
February 8, 2024 Mexico City, MX

“The works’ compositions seem both ancient and contemporary, familiar yet completely fresh…” By: Maximilíano Durón

UNROOTED: Cultivating Resilience through Art

Sotheby’s Institute of Art
November 9 – 15, 2024 New York, NY

IF EVERYTHING HAS ALREADY BEEN DECIDED

Mahara + Co / Art Space 305
With Vigil Gonzales October 26 – November 26, 2024 Miami, FL

Artists: Enrique Ramírez, José Luis Martinat, Natalia Iguiñiz, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, River Claure, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Gonzalo Hernández, Fernando Nureña, Javier Barilaro, Rocío Guerrero.

Un metro del Ecuador

IL POSTO September 30, 2023
Santiago, CL

Rodolfo Kronfle Chambers, Curator

*Video still, The Perilous Journey of Maria Rosa Palacios, 2016, Single Channel Video*

The Armory Show with RGR Gallery

RGR Gallery September 8 – 10, 2023
New York, NY

Arteba with Vigil Gonzales Gallery

Vigil Gonzales Gallery September 1– 3, 2023
Buenos Aires, AR

***Monumento al pasado para el futuro, 62'' x 40'' x 1'', collage, archival inkjet prints, 2023***

Photofairs with Jayne Baum Gallery

Jayne Baum Gallery September 8– 10, 2023
New York, NY

Fountainhead Residency, June 2023

Foundtainhead Open House: June 22, 2024 Miami, FL

Materia International Symposium

Narratives of the socio-technical May 5 – 6, 2023 Stanford University

Palo Alto, CA

101 Arte contemporáneo Ecuador (Vol. 01)

Rodolfo Kronfle, María del Carmen Carrión y Cristóbal Zapata.
Published 2022
Quito, EC

Vigil Gonzales Gallery at MECA Art Fair

MECA ART FAIR March 15 – 19, 2023 Booth MO8 Santo Domingo, DR

Inka + Cañar #9, 2022, 17” x 22”, Hand Cut Collaged Archival Inkjet Photographs

Proyecto N.A.S.A.L

Piedras Vivas 3D Virtual Tour August 11 – September 25, 2022 Guayaquil, EC

Rodolfo Kronfle Chambers, Curator

Arco Madrid

Booth: Ponce + Robles
February 23 – 27, 2022
Avenida del Partenón 5, Madrid, ES

Press:
Cinco rutas para encarar el programa general de ARCO, El Español

Las piedras están vivas

Solo show, Ponce + Robles
February 12 – March 18, 2022
Reception: February 23, 2022
Alameda 5, Madrid, ES

XV Bienal De Cuenca: Cambiar el Verde Por Azul

How to build a wall and other ruins (world premiere), curated by Blanca de la Torre, Museo de la Ciudad
December 10, 2021 – February 28, 2022 Cuenca, EC

Press:

Bienal de Cuenca 2021/22, RTVE (How to build a wall featured at 16:30)
XV Bienal de Cuenca convierte a Ecuador en centro cultural, Prensa Latina
Un Adelanto de lo que sera la 15 Bienal de Cuenca, Artishock
Definidos los artistas que participarán en la Bienal de Cuenca, El Universo

How to build a wall and other ruins, installation view, Museo de la Ciudad, XV Bienal de Cuenca

Pinta Miami

Solo Project: Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Rumi
December 2 – 5, 2021
225 NE 34th St, Miami, FL

Ponce + Robles

Flash Point: Jessica Briceño, Patricia Camet, José Castiella, Jorge Morocho, Día Muños, Sofía Salazar, Óscar Santillán, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Misha Vallejo and Keke Viabelda
November 20, 2021 – January 15, 2022 Madrid, ES

Pily Estrada, Curator

Photoville NYC

Life-Line, collaboration with Laura Nova
September 18 – December 1, 2021 Clemente Center, NY

Allentown Art Museum, PA

Museums’ Role in Fostering Equitable & Inclusive Communities: Roundtable
January 21, 2021 | 6 PM EST Allentown, PA

Join panelists Rev. Dr. Gregory Edwards of Resurrected Life Community Church, professor and multidisciplinary artist, Karina Skvirsky, and Director of Inclusion at the American Alliance of Museums, Andrew Plumley as they explore these themes and how they relate to both communities across the country and to the Lehigh Valley. Max Weintraub, President and CEO of the Allentown Art Museum will serve as the moderator of this discussion.

Vigil Gonzales, Sacred Valley, Peru

The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios / El Peligroso Viaje de María Rosa Palacios
December 19, 2020 – March 6, 2021 Sacred Valley, PE

Online Viewing Room

Press:
Karina Skvirsky: “Mi obra es un largo viaje en búsqueda de identidad,” Pedro Escribano
El Peligroso Viaje de María Rosa Palacios, Lucidez

VIGIL GONZALES Galería is pleased to announce the opening of its new space in the Sacred Valley of the Inkas with the inauguration of a solo exhibition by Ecuadorian NYC-based artist Karina Skvirsky. The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios constitutes an iconic and key body of work within Skvirsky's work. The exhibition is accompanied by a text from NYC-based curator Susanna Temkin.

VOTE BY MAIL

Commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory and The Laundromat Project, NYC
August 2020 New York, NY

Commissioned by The Laundromat Project and The Park Avenue Armory as part of the 100 Years 100 Women celebrating 100 years of women’s right to vote in the US. 2020

Mellon Visiting Practitioner Fellow, Brown University CSREA

2020 – 2021

The Backroom

Museo Tamayo, Ciudad de Mexico
Sept. 14, 2020
Mexico City, MX

Museo Tamayo and Independent Curators International, are partnering to host the digital version of The Backroom. Initiated in 2005 by Magalí Arriola, Kate Fowle, and Renaud Proch, this research project brings together videos, music, photographs, ephemera, anecdotes, or any action or artifact that feeds the artistic practice of creators from various disciplines. In its digital edition, guest curators will be presenting what nourishes and informs the practices of three artists every two weeks from September 2020 to January 2021.

The Backroom is a space where to discover and navigate art from a perspective that, beyond the artistic object or artifact, reveals how it is a continuous and relational exercise. Objects of desire, personal archives, libraries, artistic research, music, routines, films, biographies; art is in a permanent exchange with the world that surrounds it.

Artists: Galia Eibenschul, Priscila Fernandes, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky.

Andrea Valencia, Curator

The Backroom

Museo Tamayo, CDMX
ICI, NYC

BA Photo 2020, Ponce + Robles Gallery

Ponce + Robles Gallery
Sept. 1 — Sept. 15 Buenos Aires, AR

Artists: Armando Andrade Tudela, Ding Musa, Franciose Vanneraud, Isidro Blasco, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky.

Ingapirca #12 (Cliff), Collaged Hand-Cut Archival Inkjet Prints, 39” x 35” x 2” (inches), 2019

FRIEZE 2020, Ponce + Robles Gallery

Ponce + Robles Gallery
May 8 – May 15, 2020

Patrick Charpenal, Rodrigo Moura and Susanna Tempkin, Curators

Museo Amparo, FB Live Artist Lecture

Watch the lecture here. April 20, 2020

Press: La Fotografía Híbrida, written by Majo Andrade.

Vigil Gonzales, Lima, Peru

Lo que dejamos fuera / What we leave out March 26 – May 3, 2020 Lima, PE

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Museo Amparo, Puebla MX

Geometría Sagrada / Sacred Geometry October 26, 2019 – January 20, 2020 Puebla, MX

Geometría Sagrada has been extended to April 20, 2020.

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Catalogue Publication: Ponce + Robles.

Geometría Sagrada

ARCOMadrid
International Contemporary Art Fair

Ponce + Robles Gallery February 26 – March 1, 2020 Madrid, ES

Artists: Isidro Blasco, José Castiella, Raúl Díaz Reyes, Ding Musa, Maíllo, Karina Skvirsky, and Françoise Vanneraud.

Anonymous Was A Woman Award, NYC

GEOMETRÍA SAGRADA / SACRED GEOMETRY

Museo Amparo October 26, 2019 – January 20, 2020 Mexico City, MX

En el marco del Festival Internacional de Fotografía FOTOMÉXICO 2019, el Museo Amparo y el Centro de la Imagen se complacen en invitarlo a la apertura de la exposición de Karina Skvirsky, Geometría Sagrada.

Claudi Carreras, Curator

GEOMETRÍA SAGRADA / SACRED GEOMETRYDel 26 de octubre, 2019 al 20 de enero, 2020En el marco del Festival Internacional de Fotografía FOTOMÉXICO 2019, el Museo Amparo y el Centro de la Imagen se complacen en invitarlo a la apertura de la exposición de…

The Railroad Workers/ Los obreros del ferrocarril

El (des)pliegue de una historia enterrada, Angeles Donosa, 2019

Se Habla Español (SHE), New York, NY

La Nacional July 10, 2019 | Screening + Live Performance from 7 – 9 PM New York, NY

Press: El Telégrafo, Ecuador

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Ponce + Robles Art Gallery, Madrid, SP

"Geometría Sagrada / Sacred Geometry", May 30 – July 12, 2019 (extended through July 19) Madrid, ES

Pily Estrada, Curator Press: ABC Cultural

Shot and edited by Sushama Parmar.

Creative Capital Award, 2019

How to build a wall and other ruins is a video installation and a series of photography-based sculptures that absorb the debates around the engineering feats of Inca architecture to reimagine labor and its documentation, depict the gulf between theo… — How to build a wall and other ruins is a video installation and a series of photography-based sculptures that absorb the debates around the engineering feats of Inca architecture to reimagine labor and its documentation, depict the gulf between theory and practice, and insert the body into an archeological site.

https://creative-capital.org/projects/how-to-build-a-wall-and-other-ruins/

Proyecto N.A.S.A.(L), XIV Bienal de Cuenca, EC

Galería José Domingo La Mar, Gobernación del Azuay November 24 – December 14, 2018 Cuenca, EC

Mauricio Aguirre, Curator

Las llamas de Ingapirca, collaged archival inkjet photographs, (Detail) 24” x 30”, 2018

Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, EC

Horizontes Errantes (Wandering Horizons) October 13 – December 2, 2018 Quito, EC

Featuring the work of Jonathas de Andrade (Brasil), Pilar Quinteros, (Chile), David Guarnizo, (Colombia), Christian Salablanca (Costa Rica), María José Argenzio, (Ecuador), Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, (Ecuador), Angélica Alomoto (Ecuador), Rometti Costales (Francia & Ecuador), Naufus Ramírez Figueroa (Guatemala), Edgardo Aragón, (México), Gabriel Acevedo (Perú), Diego Lama, (Perú), Marco Pando, (Perú), Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, (Puerto Rico).

Eduardo Carrera, Curator

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Powerful Vulnerable

Aurora Picture Show October 20, 2018 at 8:00 PM Houston, TX

New Latin Wave, NYC

Radical Women: Remix September 30, 2018 from 11 AM – 6 PM Brooklyn Bazaar, NY

Carmen Hermo, Curator

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Centro de la Imagen

Africamericanos August 16 – November 14, 2018 Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, MX

Claudi Carreras, Curator

Artpace, TX

Guest Curator Q&A: Karina Aguilera Skvirsky August 8, 2018 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM 445 N Main Ave, San Antonio, TX

El giro autobiográfico/ The Autobiographical Turn

Universidad de las artes July 18, 2018 at 3:30 PM Guayaquil, EC

A conversation between Art Historian and Critic Lupe Álavarez and Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

ICI Curatorial Hub, NYC

A panel discussion with Curator Monica Espinel and artists Nicole Franchy and Carlos Castro Arias

May 1, 2018 at 6:30 PM

In conjunction with Hybrid Topographies at the Deutsche Bank

Countercurrent Festival, TX

Kinswoman April 10 – April 15, 2018 Houston, TX

Performance + Screening / 60 Minutes

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AURORA PICTURE SHOW

Press: Arts + Culture and San Francisco Chronicle

WELLESLEY COLLEGE, MA

Between Constructed and Imagined Spaces March 14, 2018 from 5 – 7 PM Collins Cinema, Wellesley, MA

ARCO Madrid: Ponce + Robles, SP

Ponce + Robles February 21 – 25, 2018 Madrid, ES

"El peligroso viaje de María Rosa Palacios / The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios"

"Los obreros del ferrocarril / The Railroad Workers"

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Deutsche Bank, NYC

Hybrid Topographies - Encounters from Latin America February 13 – May 14, 2018 New York, NY

Featuring the work of Claudia Andujar, Iván Argote, Karen Paulina Biswell, Carlos Castro Arias, Benvenuto Chavajay, William Cordova, Ana de la Cueva, María Elvira Escallón, Nicole Franchy, Anna Bella Geiger, Virginia de Medeiros, Jesús "Bubu" Negrón and Paulo Nimer Pjota.

"The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios", Video Still, 2016

Threewalls, Chicago

Threewalls January 10, 2018 at 6:30 PM
Chicago, IL

In-Session, The Perilous Journey of Maria Rosa Palacios, video work presented by artist Karina Skvirsky, in conversation with Charlotte Ickes, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Threewalls Executive Director Dr. Jeffreen Hayes.

In-Session conversation at Threewalls. From left to right: Omar Dyette (intern, Threewalls), Dr. Jeffreen Hayes (Executive Director at Threewalls), me, Charlotte Ickes (Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Ar… — In-Session conversation at Threewalls. From left to right: Omar Dyette (intern, Threewalls), Dr. Jeffreen Hayes (Executive Director at Threewalls), me, Charlotte Ickes (Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) 2018

Mana Contemporary, Miami

Exquisite Corpse: Moving Image in Latin American & Asian Art December 6 – 10, 2017 Miami, FL

Still from "The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios"

The 8th Floor, The Rubin Foundation, NYC

"The Poems My Mother Recited/Los poemas que declmaba mi Mamá" November 30, 2017 from 6 – 8 PM New York, NY

A performance event evening with Rafael Sanchez as part of "The Supper Club" exhibition on view through 1/13.

Smack Mellon, NYC

"The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios" September 23 – November 5, 2017 Opening Reception: September 23 from 6 – 8 PM Brooklyn, NY

Press: Art Critical, Vulture.com, Artnet News

Video Still from "The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios", 2016

Press from "The XIII Cuenca Biennial" (Ecuador)

Art Nexus: Issue 105, 2017, Ana Rosa Valdez

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DPM Gallery, Guayaquil, EC

"Folds in the Photograph/ Los pliegues en la foto" May 18, 2017 from 11 AM – 6 PM Guayaquil, EC

Press: El Telegrafo, Paraleje & Diners International / Revista Mundo Diners

Rodolfo Kronfle Chambers, Curator

Stairs, 17" x 22" (inches), folded archival inkjet print, 2017

Press from "Hacia donde Olmedo miraba"

Ponce + Robles Art Gallery Madrid, ES

Dorsky Gallery, NYC

"Almost Home: Between Staying and Leaving a Phantom Land" May 7 – July 16, 2017 Opening Reception: May 7, 2017 from 2 – 5 PM New York, NY

Featuring the work of Wafaa Bilal, Keren Benbenisty, Juanli Carrión,
Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde, Claudia Joskowicz, Ayesha Kamal Kahn,
Dana Levy, Esperanza Mayobre, Elham Rokni, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky.

Press: ArtNet & Queens Chronicle

Shlomit Dror, Curator

Ponce + Robles Art Gallery, Madrid, SP

"Hacia donde Olmedo miraba" April 1 – May 19, 2017 Madrid, ES

The XIII Cuenca Biennial, 2016

Bienal de Cuenca November 25, 2016 – February 5, 2017 Cuenca, EC