Dan Paz (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist working in lens-based practices across still-to-moving images. Their research is deeply concerned with the labor and lifecycle of photographs, spanning distribution and circulation, intellectual property, and the historical frames that encode information as metadata. Through material and archival research, as well as transnational projects, Paz examines the connections between Latinx(e) diasporic relationships to the US, alongside the converging realms of capture, architecture, and abolition.
Paz’s work has been featured internationally and nationally with recent solo exhibitions at Michigan State University 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 Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN to name a few. In 2018, Dan was the inaugural New Media Artist-in-Residence at Seattle University. From 2021-2022 Dan was Artist-in-Residence in Critical Race Studies and Creative Practice at Michigan State University. Dan was a 2023 Public Scholars for the Future Fellow and is currently a Ph.D. student in Cultural Studies, with Designated emphasis in Science & Technology Studies and Feminist Theory and Research at the University of California Davis.