Catalina Schliebener is a New York based, Chilean born artist.Their mixed media work lives in paper collages, site-specific installations and murals. Childhood is the first layer of meaning that forms around Catalina’s practice. But their work is not just about childhood, rather they uses it to explore the concepts of gender, sexuality and class.
Informed by their upbringing in a left wing politicized household during Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, their life as an immigrant, Queer theory, a Philosophy degree, a job in early childhood education and their path to find their own identity, Catalina’s work is extremely personal, blending childhood’s playful spirit with a deeper introspective approach that makes us reflect in our own lives and experiences.
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Catalina’s work:
2019
Collage, Porcelain figurines, articulated plastic figures, paper, light boxes, rubber and wood objects
Variable sizes
Site-specific installation at Orden y Secreto show curated by Nicolas Cuello
Hache Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019
Collage, Porcelain figurines, articulated plastic figures, paper, light boxes, rubber and wood objects
Variable sizes
Site-specific installation at Orden y Secreto show curated by Nicolas Cuello
Hache Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019
Collage, Porcelain figurines, articulated plastic figures, paper, light boxes, rubber and wood objects
Variable sizes
Site-specific installation at Orden y Secreto show curated by Nicolas Cuello
Hache Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020
Collage on board
8x8x3 in
20 x 20 x 7.5 cm
2021
Collage, graphite and thread on mat; Disney book pages and collage on wall
Site-specific installation at Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture curated by Avram Finkelstein
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
2021
Collage, graphite and thread on mat; Disney book pages and collage on wall
Site-specific installation at Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture curated by Avram Finkelstein
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
2021
Collage, graphite and thread on mat; Disney book pages and collage on wall
Site-specific installation at Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture curated by Avram Finkelstein
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
2021
Collage and graphite on mat, vinyl on wall, found objects, plexiglass boxes, sock monkeys
Site-specific installation at Growing Sideways show, curated by John Chaich
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA, USA
2021
Collage and graphite on mat, vinyl on wall, found objects, plexiglass boxes, sock monkeys
Site-specific installation at Growing Sideways show, curated by John Chaich
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA, USA
2021
Collage and graphite on mat, vinyl on wall, found objects, plexiglass boxes, sock monkeys
Site-specific installation at Growing Sideways show, curated by John Chaich
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA, USA
2021
Collage and graphite on mat, vinyl on wall, found objects, plexiglass boxes, sock monkeys
Site-specific installation at Growing Sideways show, curated by John Chaich
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA, USA
2021
Collage and graphite on mat, vinyl on wall, found objects, plexiglass boxes, sock monkeys
Site-specific installation at Growing Sideways show, curated by John Chaich
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA, USA
2020-21
Satanic Panic Series
Collage, graphite and vinyl on wall
Site-specific installation at Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NYC, USA
2020-21
Satanic Panic Series
Collage, graphite and vinyl on wall
Site-specific installation at Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NYC, USA
2020-21
Satanic Panic Series
Collage, graphite and vinyl on wall
Site-specific installation at Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NYC, USA
Find more about Catalina Schliebener on her website or Instagram
This episode was produced by myself, Máximo Tuja aka Max-o-matic.
Edition and sound design by Matías Rossi
Mix and mastered by Adrià Navarro
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