UF Center for Latin American Studies
Colombian artist will teach "Art & Pedagogy in Latin America" in Fall 2025
June 1, 2025
Colombian artist Nicolás Paris has been named the Fall 2025 Kislak Family Foundation Artist in Residence. He will join the Center in the fall to teach the course Art & Pedagogy in Latin America (undergraduate and graduate sections available) and participate in Center activities and mentorship with students. His course will address the question of how art becomes pedagogical material, how to create new learning environments, and what kind of cultural strategies and tactics are possible through art.
Paris is the second artist to receive a residency from the Kislak Family Foundation Writer/Artist in Residence program, which was inaugurated at the Center in Fall 2022. Previously, the Center hosted Mexican artist Eduardo Abaroa in Fall 2024 as well as two writers, Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán in Fall 2022 and Mexican author Ave Barrera in Fall 2023.
Special thank you to the Kislak Family Foundation for their continued support of Latin American arts and literature at the Center with their generous funding of this position.
About Nicolás Paris (b. 1977, Bogotá)
Paris is an interdisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work folds together architecture, object, instal- lations, happenings and the act of drawing. With a minimalist’s eye to the small and itinerant, Paris conjures dizzying depths in a single fragile line, evoking palpable communions with the unexpected and the unknown. “We are often told that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line,” he has remarked; “I would like to say that the most effective distance between two human beings is an imaginary line”—an apt description for the generous invitation his work extends to viewers for mutual discovery and rich collective exchange. Perhaps not surprisingly, Paris, a former schoolteacher in a remote region of Colombia, has dedicated much of his life to championing student-directed learning and cultivating practices of self-education. His work has been widely shown in exhibitions throughout the Americas and Europe, including the 54th Biennale di Venezia (2011), the New Museum Triennial (New York, 2012), and the 30th Bienal de São Paulo (2012).
