Dan Paz (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in South Florida, U.S. Shaped by graphic and spatial dyslexia, Paz came to language through photographs, objects, and the physical act of making. Their relationship to knowledge runs through an arts practice informed by converging histories of exposure, architecture, and abolition.
Working through traditional and expanded photographic methods, Paz traces the labor, circulation, and afterlives of images in the reproduction and maintenance of nation-states. Paz's work examines how race, gender, queerness, and disability stage particular kinds of encounters in the built environment, and how those material infrastructures are made legible in everyday forms. Paz follows these entanglements across sites of labor, captivity, and policing, where the Latine diaspora is a recurring site of return.
Paz’s work has been featured internationally and nationally with recent solo exhibitions at Michigan State University in Lansing, MI; and Entre Gallery in Vienna, Austria; and group exhibitions at Hayward Gallery London, UK; the 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, CU; The New Media Lab and The Latinx Project at NYU, NYC; The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA; Holding Contemporary, Portland, OR; and Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN to name a few. In 2018, Paz was the inaugural New Media Artist-in-Residence at Seattle University. From 2021 to 2022, Paz was Artist-in-Residence in Critical Race Studies and Creative Practice at Michigan State University. Paz was a 2023 Public Scholars for the Future Fellow at University of California, Davis and in 24/25 a Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Artist Fellow in NYC.