Paula Querido is an artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She currently lives and works in New York City, USA, for the most part, with some time split between Greece and her native Brazil. She holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from the New York Studio School.
In the last years, her work and thinking has responded to Italian medieval and renaissance works, as well as cave paintings, Festa de Iemanjá, Persian miniatures, Times Square, Minoan frescoes, dreams, protests, modernist architecture, and the popular unconscious. Querido work through tropes, using figures that are both vivid and dreamed, figures that linger on the fringe of legibility, between compositions whose logic, rhythm, and synthesis of moment, seek to make song, and like carnaval,
invert the visible world.
