Cristina Velásquez (b. Colombia) is an artist and publisher based between Austin and Bogotá. Her work, rooted in contemporary and experimental approaches to photography, integrates weaving and literature to translate the complex negotiations between body, territory, and the historical erasure of Latin American subjectivities. Velásquez approaches the photographic medium as an evolving archive where memory and identity are continuously rewoven.

Velásquez received an MFA from Bard College and the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York in 2017. Her work is represented by Assembly Gallery and has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Musée de l’Elysée, MoMA PS1, the ICP Museum, ArtBo, and the Houston Center for Photography, and is held in both public and private collections. Her photobooks have been acquired by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Research Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, ICP, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and George Washington University. Recent awards and residencies include the Lucie Scholarship Prize, Yaddo Residency, and Dust Collective Prize. 

Velásquez is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of New Poetics Publishing, an independent press that collaborates with emerging artists on contemporary and experimental approaches to photography in book form. She is also the art director at Paisajes Coloniales.  

Web: www.cristinavelasquez.com ; IG: @cristinavelasquezstudio ; Other: www.newpoeticsoflabor.com

Courses & Workshops: Original Imprint: Subjective Photography Laboratory