Koyoltzintli

7 PODERES DE LA MAR (2021) & 7 PODERES DE LA MAR: COMPOSITE VIDEO (2021)

Koyoltzintli's ongoing research-based work on acoustic ecologies centers indigenous sonorism, particularly pre-Columbian instruments and sounds ceramic instruments are on display that had previously been activated in a series of rituals focused on oceans and other bodies of water. Koyoltzintli works with the knowledge of the body as vessel, reinforcing that there is a deep relationship with the creative life-force that co-creates with the earth.

Koyoltzintli, is an interdisciplinary artist, a healer and educator living in New York. She grew up on the coast of Ecuador and the Andes, geographies that permeate in her work. She focuses on geopoetics, ancestral technologies, ritual and storytelling through collaborative processes and personal narratives. Intersectional theories, and earth-based healing informs her practice. Nominated for Prix Pictet in 2019, her work has been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, the United Nations, Aperture Foundation in NYC, and Paris Photo, among others. She has been an artist in residence in the US, France, and Italy and has taught at CalArts, SVA, ICP, and CUNY. Koyoltzintli has received multiple awards and fellowships including the Photographic Fellowship at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, NYFA Fellowship, and the IA grant by the Queens Council of the Arts. Her first monograph Other Stories was published in 2017 by Autograph ABP, her work was featured in the Native issue of Aperture Magazine (no. 240). in 2021, her work was included in the book Latinx Photography in the United States by Elizabeth Ferrer chief curator at BRIC.