Daniela Ortiz is a Peruvian artist whose work develops visual narratives and educational tools that analyze the concepts of nationality, racialization, social class, and gender to critically understand colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist power structures from an anti-imperialist perspective.

Her practice has focused on exposing the European immigration control system, its ties to colonialism, and the way institutional racism is used to impose violence on migrant communities and racialized working classes, while also highlighting forms of resistance against these systems. Since her return to Peru, her work has addressed internationalist solidarity, care from a political perspective, mechanisms of repression and persecution through counterterrorism policies, as well as anti-imperialist revolutionary processes of the 20th and 21st centuries.

In her early works, Ortiz explored the Peruvian elites, their exploitative relationship with domestic workers, and the role of the ruling classes in the mining industry. More recently, her practice has returned to manual and figurative techniques, working with painting, ceramics, collage, drawing, children’s books, theater, and puppetry.

Her work is included in the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), the Museu d‘Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), and the Kunsthaus Zürich, among others.

In 2026, she was selected for the residency program at the Spanish Academy in Rome. Previously, she completed residencies at Kadist (Paris), Darat al Funun (Amman), and Matadero (Madrid).

She has received, among other honors, the Oelle Mediterraneo Art Prize (2024), the Prince Claus Fund CAREC Fellowship (2024), the Follow Fluxus Kunstverein Wiesbaden grant (2023), the Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellowship (2022), the Illy SustainArt Prize (2021), the Barcelona Producció grant (2013), the CIFO Grants & Commissions Program grant (2012), and the Guasch Coranty grant from the University of Barcelona (2011).

In addition to her artistic practice, Daniela Ortiz is a mother of three, gives lectures and workshops internationally, is an outspoken supporter of Chávez, supports the resistance of the Palestinian people, and is deeply committed to the anti-imperialist struggle and the revolutionary processes of the Latin American peoples.