Magdalena Paz

Magdalena Paz was born in Santiago, Chile, but had a multi-cultural upbringing. Her drawings, acrylic paintings, and sculptures are inspired by her constant displacement growing up and her athletic practice. For her, the artist and athlete have similar callings: “the artist works to achieve a harmonious manipulation of medium through research and experimentation, as the athlete aims to achieve a harmonious manipulation of their body through training.” Her paintings, acts of practice and game, use sport as a universal language to express ideas on awareness, memory, and identity. Like sport, painting is a highly physical and mental process—she doesn’t paint on canvas larger than her own height, and her own internal rhythm constitutes the movement and compositions of her paintings. She carries the virtues of both disciplines on-and-off the soccer field and to-and-from the canvas, celebrating the process as the ultimate end goal.
In the United States, she studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA in 2012. Between schools, she received sculpture and portraiture training from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile. Then, upon moving to Germ...

2008-2009 Pratt Institute, New York
2010-2012 Academy of Art University
2013-2017 Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule