Artist Talk: Dan Paz

Paz will discuss photography’s history to criminology in a lecture called, we don’t say torture in the US. Paz will also narrate their research-based practice and community engagement to shine a light on the contemporary economies that perpetuate the school to prison/detention pipeline in a United States context.

Paz is a visual artist whose work brings a critical and aesthetic lens to the architecture of space, developing projects that build a genealogy of how power articulates itself through image production and access to information.  Their research engages the conditions of youth incarceration, image practices, and architecture, demonstrating how foundational techniques of image-making are inextricable from the environmental politics of racialized subject-making.

Most recently, Paz hosted a series of Live-Mapping Workshops with Arizona State University, Vanderbilt University, University of Washington, and the University of Colorado at Boulder Paz’s projects and collaborations have been featured in Hayward Gallery London, UK; the 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, CU; The Media lab, NYC; The Lee Center for the Arts, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA; Holding Contemporary, Portland, OR. Paz has hosted mapping workshops with Arizona State University, Vanderbilt University, University of Washington, University of Colorado at Boulder, Vienna Master of Applied Arts in Human Rights Program, Michigan State University. In 2021, Paz guest-edited a volume of photographs with A New Nothing & Sleeper Studio. In 2022, Paz has solo exhibitions with ENTRE, Vienna, Austria; The Specialist, Seattle, WA; and Michigan State University. Paz is 2021/22 Artist-in-Residence in Critical Race Studies at Michigan State University.