Dan Paz (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in South Florida, U.S., 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 race, gender, queerness, and disability stage particular encounters in the built environment, and how those infrastructures become legible in everyday life. 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 24/25 Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, Artist Fellow in NYC.