BIO

Raquel Esquives is a peruvian artist living and working in the United States.

She studied Photography at Centro de la Imagen and Painting at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.

Esquives was granted twice full Artist in Residence fellowships at Vytlacil Campus from The Art Student League of New York (2012 and 2014, New York,US); Fellowship at Artist in Residency at Camac Centre dárt Marnay (2012, Marnay, France); Fellowship at New Zealand Pacific Studios (2013, Masterton, New Zealand); Fellowship at Frans Masereel Centrum (2014, Antwerp, Belgium); Fellowship at Contemporary Artist Center (2015, New York, US); Fellowship at E|MERGE Interdisciplinary Collaborative Residency (2016, Massachusetts, US); Fellowship at ART+BIO Cultivo Field Residency (2019, El Paso, Texas).

Her work has been exhibit in Peru, United States, Argentina, New Zealand, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, Ukraine and England.

STATEMENT

Along her artistic trajectory, Esquives’s work has always evolved around one constant theme: the building up of the identity, from different perspectives.

Most of her work is based on the investigation of archeological remains and anthropological studies. She is interested in finding new concepts from societies, particularly narrow, extinct or minority groups of individuals and give them a space in our current political context.
To express this she uses different materials with anthropological meaning.
I studied painting and photography at Catholic University of Peru.
With degrees in Painting and Photography. She also have learned textile arts with her two grandmothers in Peru and working in costume making for Broadway Shows in New York. She has broadened those disciplines along her career with mix media, installations and performances, creating multidisciplinary projects, approaching subjects from different angles.