Libby Paloma (she/they) is a queer, Mexican-American interdisciplinary artist currently based in New York, NY. Inspired by ways familiar and common materials can be recontextualized to create something new and superb, Paloma utilizes installation, labor-intensive sculpture, and performance to create delightfully dazzling pieces. In attaching personal meaning to particular objects, Paloma is interested in how imbuing layered context through aspects of storytelling can reconstruct the ordinary into something extraordinary. Paloma uses art as an agent for transformative change and a vehicle for social engagement and interconnection. Paloma’s creative work is a playful mode of intervening in dominant and oppressive structures of hetero-patriarchy, white supremacy, and ableism to offer alternative, softer, more joyous ways of engaging with self and others.
Paloma has been an artist in residence at Space, Portland, ME; The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; and The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY. Recently, Paloma was featured as a panelist on the roundtable, What is an Image? at The International Visual Sociology Association Annual Conference, which was subsequently published in Visual Studies Journal, February-May 2023, alongside Paloma’s piece, Familia. Paloma will be a panelist in this year’s 41st International Visual Sociology Conference in 2024 to discuss their project, Lo Que No Sabrías (What You Wouldn't Know) in Xalapa, Veracruz. Paloma's work has been exhibited at El Museo Del Barrio in New York, NY; Burlington City Arts (BCA), Burlington, VT; SOMArts in San Francisco, CA; SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME; Geary Contemporary, Millerton, NY, Unprofessional Variety Show, New York, NY, The University of Southern Maine in Gorham, ME, and the Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, NY where she received the Artist Purchase Award. This piece is currently on view through 2025 in the exhibition A Living Collection. Paloma recently received an Award of Excellence for their installation in the QUEERwerks exhibition at Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT. Paloma holds a Bachelor's Degree (BA) in Liberal Studies, a Master's Degree (MS) in Communicative Disorders from San Francisco State University, and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Parsons School of Design, The New School, where she received the President and University full Scholarship.
Send inquiries to: palomalibby@gmail.com
Instagram handle: @libby_arty_party