Paola Gracida

Paola Gracida is a Mexican American artist, born in 1979 in Mexico City, she received her Bachelor degree in Industrial design From the National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM in Mexico City. She received a Master in Fine Arts from the Designhögskolan at Umea University in Sweden. She has exhibited work at the South Haven Center for the Arts in Michigan, she worked as a guest teacher at the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph, Michigan and participated as independent artist at the Other Art Fair in Chicago and Dallas. She currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois


My work explores the idea of adaptability and how we exist under continual change. It talks about a transitory nature, a fragile balance, an ambiguity.

My process is a quest to defy gravity, im interested in forms that are challenging to build in clay.

I consider each piece I make a resilient entity that has gone through changes. A piece that overcomes each stage agains gravity without breaking.

I want each piece to create an encounter, to present itself as something deliberately willing to be redefined by another person.

I am interested in creating a piece that conveys contrast and openness in a way it challenges a viewer’s perception. A piece that give...

2004, BFA in Industrial Design form the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

2010, Master in Fine Arts, product design program at Institute of Design in Umea, Sweden.

2023
Pushing the boundaries of Clay
South Haven Center for the Arts
South Haven, MI. USA

2021
COMMON THREAD Exhibition
South Haven Center for the Arts
South Haven, MI. USA