リリアナ・グスマン Liliana Guzmán
Profile
1993年生まれ、コロンビア系アメリカ人のビジュアル・アーティスト。身体、触覚、記憶、そして自我の隠された風景などの題材の接点を、ペインティングとドローイング、写真の組み合わせを通して作用させる作品を手がける。
2022年、故郷であるメリーランド州バルチモア市のアマリー・ロスチャイルド・ギャラリーで「Next to Myself」シリーズを初展示。Photolucida Critical Mass 2022よりBlue Sky Solo Show Awardを受賞、2021年Lenscratch Student Prize: 26 to Watchに選ばれた。2023年5月にもヴァージニア州リッチモンドのカンデラ・ギャラリーにて「Next to Myself」が展示された。ニューヨークのKlomching Galleryが主催するRhonda Wilson Award受賞者に選ばれ、グループ展「FRESH 2023」に参加。最近では、新作３点をAIPADニューヨーク市カンデラ・ギャラリー主催のThe Photography Showにて発表。
Liliana Guzmán (b. 1993) is a Colombian-American visual artist known for activating the connection between topics of the body, touch, memory and the hidden landscapes of the self through the combination of painting, drawing and photography.
Liliana’s series Next to Myself first exhibited at the Amalie Rothschild Gallery in her birth town of Baltimore, Maryland in May of 2022. She is the recipient of the Blue Sky Solo Show Award from Photolucida’s Critical Mass 2022 and was chosen in the 2021 Lenscratch Student Prize: 26 to Watch. Next to Myself was also exhibited at Candela Gallery in Richmond, Virginia in May of 2023. She was selected as the Rhonda Wilson Award recipient through Klompching
Gallery in New York City, New York and participated in the group exhibition FRESH 2023. Most recently, she has presented three new artworks at The Photography Show presented by The Association of International Photography Art Dealers with Candela Gallery in New York City.
Experience
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
BA Studio Art, Photography and French Language, Earlham College, Richmond, IN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Next to Myself, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
2023 Next to Myself, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR
2022 Next to Myself, Amalie Rothschild Gallery, Baltimore, MD
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2024 Fotofest Scholarship, Rhonda Wilson Award, Klompching Gallery, New York City, New York
2024 On-Ramp Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Program, Indiana Arts Commission
2023 Bloomington Emerging Artist Grant Award, Bloomington Arts Commission, Bloomington, IN
2023 Rhonda Wilson Award, Klompching Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Critical Mass T op 200/Finalist, Photolucida, Portland, OR
2022 The Blue Sky Solo Show Award, Photolucida Critical Mass, Portland, OR
2021 The 2021 Lenscratch Student Prize: 26 to Watch, Lenscratch,
2021 CAHI Award in Support of Research and Creative Activity, Bloomington, IN
2021 Grant-in-Aid of Master’s of Fine Arts Projects, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2020 John Beck Scholarship Award in Photography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2020 Manifest Grand Jury Prize for 15th exhibition Season/Finalist, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2019 Pictura Gallery Award, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2016 Vicki Penziner Matson Photographic Award, Earlham College, Richmond, IN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Photography Show, AIPAD, Park Avenue Armory, New York City, NY
2024 Bloomington Emerging Artists Group Exhibition, John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN
2023 FRESH, Klompching Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
2023 Record(ando), FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, Bloomington, IN
2022 Montgomery Photo Festival, Montgomery, AL Juror: Anna W alker Skillman
2021 Master Pieces 15th Annual Exhibit of Emerging Masters, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue)
2021 Latinx Artist Showcase, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2021 Gesture, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
2021 Relax, Online Exhibition, Analog Forever Magazine Curated by: Michael Kirchoff
2021 Bloom, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
2021 Spring MFA Thesis Show, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN
2021 A Certain Kind of Blue, Online Exhibition, Analogue Forever Magazine Curated by: Jaime Aelavanthara
2021 2021 Visual Arts Competition + Exhibition, National Society of Arts and Letters Bloomington, IN
2020 2020 Alternative Processes Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, New York
2020 Homebound, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2020 Self-Quarantine, Online Exhibition, Lenscratch
2019 Open Theme, Unconstrained, Open Art Exhibition, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2019 15th Annual Magnitude Seven, Open Art Exhibition, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue)
SELECTED PRESS AND INTERVIEWS
2024 Riot of Color and Texture, Earlhamite Magazine, Fall 2024 issue
2023 Liliana Guzmán Artist, Bloom Magazine, pg. 21, December 2023/January 2024 issue
2023 Liliana Guzmán (M.F.A.’21) honored for art exploring Latina identity, Online publication 2022 ‘Next to Myself’ an interview with Liliana Guzmán, The Mirrored Society, Dec. 2022, Online Publication
2022 Q&A: Liliana Guzmán, Strange Fire Collective, May 19, 2022, Online Publication
2022 Photographers on Photographers: Liliana Guzmán in conversation with Bea Nettles, Lenscratch, Online
RESIDENCIES AND REVIEWS
2024 Fotofest Meetingplace, Fototfest Portfolio Review Scholarship, Houston, TX
2023 City of Bloomington Artist in Residence, Bloomington, IN
2022 Attended Chico Portfolio Review, Charcoal Book Club, Pray, MT
2022 Invited Santa Fe Review, Center, Santa Fe, NM
Statement
体内から体外へと拡張していく「Next to Myself」は、自己の多様な側面が関わり合う様子を視覚化した総合的な写真作品シリーズです。各作品は写真印画、絵の具、木炭、その他の痕跡を残す道具からなるレイヤーの集大成です。中西部で育ったバイカルチャーなコロンビア系アメリカ人女性という私自身の育ちを由来とし、本シリーズではラテン系女性の身体という概念に対して私が晒されてきた経験の二元性を扱っています。プライベートな家庭空間や、教会や学校などの宗教的社会環境では、いかに女性の身体が祝福あるいは規制されているかについて強調し批判します。
最初はカトリックの図像で使用される光輪の再文脈化として始め、頭の周りの半円を顔を覆う円へと変容させたことで、そこからマスクが浮かび上がりました。顔を隠すということは伝統的な意味での肖像写真に対する挑戦というだけでなく、鑑賞者自身がマスクの裏に入り、それぞれの作品に描かれる女性の体験に入り込むことを許容します。マスクは場合によって演技を強調したり、単に一番共有すべき重要な事柄を表現したりします。
本シリーズでは一貫して、組まれた手や、触れ合う肌、絡み合う腕などの写真的要素が”触れること”を強調しています。形成的で親密な体験としての触れるということ、また、自身や他者との関係を築く際に不可欠な役割を担う、触れるという行為に関心があります。「Next to Myself」では私たちを構成する数多のレイヤーの上に民族性やジェンダー、接触、記憶が絶えず積み重なっていくことを強調しています。
Extending from within the body and outward, Next to Myself is a multidisciplinary photographic series that visualizes the many facets of the self engaging with one another. Each piece is a culmination of layers; the photographic print, paint, charcoal, and other mark-making objects. Stemming from my own personal upbringing as a bicultural Colombian-American woman growing up in the Midwest, this series addresses the dualities of my exposure to different conceptions of the Latina body. In private family spaces as well as in
religious social environments such as church or school, I emphasize and critique how a woman’s body is either celebrated or restricted.
Beginning as a recontextualization of the halo as used in Catholic imagery, I transformed the halo from a half circle around the head to a circle covering the face, where the mask emerged. Hiding the face not only challenges portrait photography in a traditional sense, but also allows the viewer to place themselves behind the mask and into the experience of the women in each piece. The mask in some instances can either emphasize performance or blatantly express what is most important to share.
Throughout this series, photographic elements reinforce touch with hands clasping, skin touching, and arms interlocked. I am interested in touch as a formative and intimate experience, and how touch plays an integral role in establishing relationships with oneself and
with others. Next to Myself emphasizes how ethnicity, gender, touch and memory continuously build upon the many layers that make up who you are.
Testimonial
リリアナ・グスマンは、絵画と写真の手法を自在に行き来しながら、身体、文化的アイデンティティ、そして記憶がどのように「自己」の理解を形づくるのかを探求している。2021年にインディアナ大学エスケナージ美術・建築・デザインスクールの修士課程を修了後、彼女の表現はストレートフォトグラフィから、ドローイングやペインティングを取り入れたダイナミックなミックスドメディアへと展開していった。個人と歴史の関係を織り交ぜながら、深く多層的で心に響く作品を生み出すグスマンの表現の変化を間近で見てこられたことを、とても嬉しく思っている。現在取り組んでいる「Next to Myself」シリーズでは、社会や宗教が与える価値観やプレッシャーのもとで形づくられる、ラテン女性の文化的な二面性を見事に描き出している。彼女のすばらしい作品を日本の観客に紹介できることを心から光栄に思う。
（オサム・ジェームズ・中川）
Liliana Guzman effectively combines painting and photography, examining the ways in which the body, cultural identity, and memory shape our understanding of self. A 2021 MFA graduate of Indiana University’s Eskenazi School of Art, she has transformed her artistic journey from a strong foundation in straight photography to a dynamic mixed media approach that effectively blends drawing, painting, and photography. I have had the privilege of witnessing the transformation of Guzman ‘s visual language, as she weaves personal and historical narratives to create deeply layered and emotionally impactful artworks. Her ongoing series, Next to Myself, beautifully explores the cultural duality of Latinx women, shaped by social and religious expectations. I take great pride in introducing Guzman’s inspiring work to Japanese audiences.
（Osamu James Nakagawa）