Daniela Ortiz(Perù/1986), lives and works in Cusco. 

Through her work, she aims to generate visual narratives in which the concepts of nationality, racialization, social class and genre are explored so as to critically understand structures of colonial, patriarchal and capitalist power. Her recent projects and research deal with the European migratory control system, its links to colonialism and the legal structure created by European institutions in order to inflict violence on racialized and migrant communities. She has also developed projects about the Peruvian upper class and its exploitative relationship with domestic workers. Recently, her artistic practice has reverted to visual and manual work, developing artworks in ceramic, collage and formats such as children’s books in order to shift away from the aesthetics of Eurocentric conceptual art. 
Apart from her artistic practice, she is the mother of a three-year-old, she gives talks, holds workshops, carries out investigations and participates in discussions on Europe’s migratory control system and its ties to coloniality in various contexts. 

She has received a number of awards and grants, including the Barcelona Producció grant (2013), the Grupo Investigación Peninsula grant from MNCARS (2013), and completed a residency at the Darat Al Funum Foundation in Jordan (2013). In 2017 she produced an anti-racist children’s book publication, the ABC of Racist Europe, which is available to download for free online. Active in the world outside of her artistic practice, Daniela Ortiz is the creator of various publications, and has held many workshops in Spain as well as internationally. She often participates in public conferences and panels. 

Her work has been exhibited during 2022-2023 at the Kunstverein in Wiesbaden, The children of the Communists (solo exhibition); the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, And we will grasp the knowledge of our resistances (solo exhibition), Palais de Tokyo, Reclaim the Earth  (group exhibition); EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art of Athens, Statecraft (group exhibition), Ludwig Museum (Cologne) Here and now at the Ludwig Museum: anti-colonial interventions (group exhibition), Collegium, Arévalo (Spain)The collection: dialogues Volume 1: The story between tenacity and criticism (group exhibition) and other exhibitions at European institutions such as the Arnhem Museum in Holland, CIVA Brussels and others.

Among her solo show we mention: Nurtured by the defeat of the colonizers our seeds will raise,
Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2021; They will burn with the flame of the Mother‘s torment and in ashes transform, Sirius Arts Centre, Ireland, 2021; The children are not of the she-wolf, Locales in collaboration with the Real Academia de Espana, Rome, 2021; This land jamás será fértil por haber parido colonos, La Virreina, Center de la Imatge, Barcelona, ​​2019; O ABC da Europe racista, Casa da Cerca, Portugal, 2019; Blanca Europa, Las Ataranzas, Valencia, 2017; ABC of Racist Europe, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, 2017; 97 Housemaids, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2016; Público Objectivo, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, ​​2015; Solo project, Zona Maco Sur, Mexico, 2013.

Her work is to be found in numerous public collections, including: Reina Sofia, Madrid; Macba Barcelona; Mali, Museo de Arte de Lima; Cnap Le Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Miami; Ca2m Madrid.

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