About
Dan Paz (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in South Florida, working in expanded photographic practice across still and moving images. Paz traces the labor, circulation, and afterlives of images in the reproduction and maintenance of nation-states. Their work examines how the built environment stages encounters with race, gender, queerness, and disability, and how those structures become legible in everyday life. Paz works across sites of labor, captivity, and policing, with particular attention to the survival of the Latine diaspora.
Paz has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI, and ENTRE Gallery in Vienna, Austria. Group exhibitions include the Hayward Gallery in London, UK; the 12th Havana Biennial in Havana, CU; the New Media Lab and the Latinx Project at NYU in New York, NY; the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in Seattle, WA; Holding Contemporary in Portland, OR; and Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN.
In 2018, Paz was the inaugural New Media Artist-in-Residence at Seattle University. From 2021 to 2022, they were Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Assistant Professor in Critical Race Studies and Creative Practice at Michigan State University. Paz was a 2023 Public Scholars for the Future Fellow at the University of California, Davis, and a 2024–25 Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Artist Fellow in New York. In 2026-27 Paz is a Sawyer Seminar Graduate Fellow and received a dissertation fellowship from the University of California, Davis.