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Speaking from Experience
July 1 – 31, 2024
Speaking from Experience: Artist’s Books From Inside Out addresses the power in creating social-justice art from a personal perspective. Over two dozen finished works and artist journals document how Ana Paula Cordeiro creates a dialogue between source and outcome—revealing how her oeuvre is directly related to her experiences as a Brazilian living in the US, navigating the waters of immigrant-phobia, patriarchy, and racism, among other issues.
Ana Paula Cordeiro (MA ’25) is a Brazilian national, New York City -based visual artist working primarily in the book form. The co-author of a book about making books called Bookforms, she has also co-organized the multi-media installation Introspective Collective at The Clemente.
She was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and an Honorable Mention at the International Human Rights Arts Festival Creators of Justice Award for her essay “Citizen”. In the fall of 2023 she accepted the Dean’s Graduate Scholarship for the Arts at Gallatin.
Artist books can be a solitary practice, but as the Introspective Collective manifesto states, no artist is an island. Ana Paula thrives in the shared space, having been a part of the Center for Book Arts communal shop for her entire career.
She was a resident at the LMCC Arts Center in Governors Island and a research fellow at Hispanic Society Museum and Library, which became her sponsor for a 2023 regrant by NYSCA. Ana Paula has an extensive exhibition history, and her artist books are collected privately and institutionally.
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