Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky is a multidisciplinary artist. In 2019, she received a Creative Capital grant to produce Sacred Geometry, a series of hand-cut photographic collages, and How to Build a Wall and Other Ruins, a project that includes a multi-channel video installation and live performances.

Recent exhibitions include her participation in Bienalsur in the Palazzo Borghese, 2025 [Rome, IT]; La Avanzada Acestralista at El Museo de Arqueología y Arte Contemporáneo, 2025 [Guayaquil, EC]; Hors Pistes at Centre Pompidou, 2024 [Málaga, SP]; Jugar con los ojos cerrados: Cien Años de Surrealismo at RGR Gallery, 2024 [Mexico City, MX]; and Re-Collections at the LatinX Project, 2024 [New York, NY]. Upcoming exhibitions include; The Afterlife at Capilla Azul, 2026 [Chiloé, CH]; and Disposessions in the Americas at Wrightwood 659, 2026 [Chicago, IL].

How to Build a Wall and Other Ruins premiered at the XV Cuenca Biennial, curated by Blanca de la Torre in December 2021 [Cuenca, EC]. Other significant international exhibitions include Impermanence, the XIII Cuenca Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron in 2016, and There Is Always a Cup of Sea for Man to Sail, the 29th São Paulo Biennial [São Paulo, BR].

She has received grants from: New York State Council on the Arts, Film and Electronic Arts, 2023; Rema Hort Mann Foundation, 2023; Anonymous Was A Woman, 2019; Creative Capital, 2019; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement, 2019; New York Foundation for the Arts, 2019; National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC), 2018; Fulbright Scholar Program, 2015; Jerome Foundation, 2015 and others.