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     BIOGRAPHY

     RESUME


 







Education

Master of Fine Arts ( M. F. A. )
( 2006 - 2009 ) Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
art.stonybrook.edu

Studio Art
( 2004 - 2005 ) Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA

Bachelor of Fine Arts ( B. F. A. )
( 2002 - 2003 ) Accademia Albertina Di Belle Arti Di Torino, Torino, Italy
( 1998 - 2002 ) Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
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Studio Art
( 1991 - 1998 ) Taller de Demetrio Navaridas, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain



Highlights from the past few years

2021 *Queens Arts Fund Panelist, Queens Council on the Arts, NYC
queenscouncilarts.org

*Selected for EMERGENYC 2021, NYC
emergenyc.org

*Selected for Artist Communications workshop, Creative Capital, NYC, and Arizona State University
creative-capital.org

Live Online Underwater Performance, hosted by Grace Exhibition Space, NYC

Live Online Underwater Performance, closing performance for UNTIMELY TRANSGRESSIONS Forum, Haverford College, PA
Untimely Transgressions Forum

Live Online Underwater Performance, hosted by Coaxial Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

*Performance Curator, ATOA Artists Talk On Art, NYC

2020 *PIONEER WORKS Large-scale immersive participatory performance installation, NYC, November 8, 2020. Funded by Franklin Furnace and Pioneer Works. Postponed due to Covid-19.
pioneerworks.org

  CREATIVE CAPITAL NYC TALLER 2019-20, NYC

“Awaiting In Stillness” Interview, Creatrix Magazine, NYC
Awaiting In Stillness

2019 MUSEO C.A.V. LA NEOMUDEJAR, Solo Performance, Madrid, Spain

Bienal Internacional de Performance PerfoArtNet, live online performance and video, Bogotá, Colombia

“Art Uncovered: Verónica Peña” Interview
Art Uncovered: Verónica Peña



Performances

2020 *Pioneer Works, NYC

2019 Perneo Performance Art, La Neomudéjar, Madrid, Spain

Itinerant Performance Art Festival, BAAD Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, NYC, May 23

Movement Research, Judson Memorial Church, NYC
Vernita Nemec with Verónica Peña and Lorin Roser

2018 Itinerant Performance Art Festival, Smack Mellon Foundation, NYC
https://hyperallergic.com/443844/a-roving-performance-art-festival-works-to-break-down-binaries/

Art In Odd Places (AIOP), NYC

The National Arts Club, NYC

Nexus Performance Art Platform, Miami Art Week, Lummus Park, Miami Beach, FL

Bienal Internacional de Performance PerfoArtNet, Bogotá, Colombia

BIPAF / Panoply Performance Laboratory, NYC

Arte en la Tierra, Santa Lucía de Ocón, La Rioja, Spain

Espacio Lavadero, Granada, Andalucía, Spain

Red Plexus, Friche La Belle De Mai, Marseille, France

The Knockdown Center, NYC

No Nation Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

2017 Satellite Art show, Miami Art Week, Miami Beach, FL

Nexus Performance Art Platform, Edge Zones Gallery, Miami Art Week, Miami, FL

Cloying Parlor, NYC

Pøst Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Galeria Ana Lama, Lisbon, Portugal

Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal

Fundación BilbaoArte, Bilbao, País Vasco, Spain

Festival Intramurs, Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

República del Arte, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja, Spain

La Gota de Leche, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

La Grey Gallery, Tarragona, Cataluña, Spain

Glasshouse, NYC

The Woods Cooperative, NYC

Triskelion Arts, NYC

2016 Sala Luis Miro Quesada Garland, Lima, Perú

Queens Museum, NYC

Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, IN

Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Santiago, Chile

Bunker Projects Performance Art Festival, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Panoply Performance Lab, NYC

Rabbithole, NYC

2015 Momenta Art Gallery, NYC

Songs for Presidents Gallery, NYC

Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

Grace Exhibition Space, NYC

Month of Performance Art Berlin, OKK Gallery, Berlin, Germany

La Gota de Leche, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

2014 Month of Performance Art Berlin, OKK Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2013 Anthology Film Archives, NYC

Galería Weber-Lutgen, Sevilla, Spain

2012 Soho20 Gallery, NYC

2011 Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY

2010 Times Square, Times Square Alliance, NYC

The Lab Gallery, NYC

The Living Theather, NYC

2009 DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival, Dumbo Arts Center, NYC



Exhibitions

2019 Arte en la Tierra, ESDIR College of Design, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

2018 Body, Art In Odd Places, Westbeth Gallery, NYC

2017 US for the Arts Winter Show, The Wall Gallery, NYC

(Solo) The Presence Of The Absent: Performance Art Against Separation, Tippecanoe Arts Federation, Lafayette, IN

Performance Art Festival Prácticas inVisibles, Centro Cultural España Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

(Two-person) (In)Flexiones, Festival Artefacto, La Gota de Leche, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

2016 (Solo) In Progress, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

(Two-person) Under Our Skin: Body and Territory in Performance Art, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN

Art As A Social Force: Collective Action, Hélio Labs, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Six Women: Their Stories, Besse Gallery, Bay College, Escanaba, MI

2015 (Solo) Siete Años Después De Recoger Sus Dientes (Seven Years After I found his teeth), La Gota De Leche, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

2013 Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery, Nightngale Theatre, Chicago, IL

Diaspora, College Art Association (CAA) Conference, New Century Artists Gallery, NYC

2012 Approach, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY

2011 8th Busan International Video Art Festival, Art Space Bandee, Busan, South Korea

(Solo) In My Bedroom, Oasis Gallery, Marquette, MI

2010 (Solo) Sin Nombre ( Without Name ), The Lab Gallery, NYC

Spain In The City / The Armory Show 2010, Gabarron Foundation at The Armory Show, NYC

2008 (Solo)No te Marches ( Don't Leave ),Lawrence Alloway Memorial Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

(Solo)Sin Nombre ( Without Name ), Lawrence Alloway Memorial Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

2006 (Solo)Verónica y el Hombre Payaso ( Veronica and the Clown Man ), Galería Torre Nueva, Fundación Ibercaja, Zaragoza, Spain

(Solo) Painting in Volume, Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2005 (Solo) The Shape of the Land, Galería Fundación Ibercaja, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

2003 (Solo) Mundo Paralelo ( Parallel World ), Galería Ateneo Mercantil, Valencia, Spain