Tatiana Arocha
Bio
Tatiana Arocha (USA, 1974) is a multidisciplinary artist. She studied Graphic Design at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (Colombia) and did a Mural Arts Training Program in Philadelphia (USA).
In 2023, Arocha was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, an Annual Award for Excellence in Design by the Public Design Commission of the City of New York, and a residency at Residency Unlimited. In 2024, she will be a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Past residencies include The Lower East Side Printshop, LABverde, Sinfonia Tropico, and The Wassaic Project. Arocha has received funding from The Sustainable Arts Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, and City Artist Corps, and was the recipient of the Brookfield Place New York Annual Arts Commission and the FST StudioProjects Fund.
Solo exhibitions include Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, BioBAT Project Space, Queens Botanical Garden, and site-specific installations at BRIC, Brookfield Place/Winter Garden, MTA Arts, Goethe-Institut Kolumbien, and Hilton Bogota Corferias. She has participated in group exhibitions at PS122, Smack Mellon, Wave Hill, BRIC, The Wassaic Project, ArtBridge, KODALab, and The Clemente.
Statement
Tatiana Arocha (USA, 1974) is a New York-born Colombian artist. Her art practice explores intimacy between people and land, rooted in personal memory and her immigrant experience, and centers on community through public art interventions and transdisciplinary knowledge exchange. Most often, Arocha’s works vivify and reconstruct the vulnerable tropical forests of her homeland, confronting the ecological, emotional, and cultural loss caused by extractive economies and colonial practices. In weaving together historical and contemporary technologies, Arocha’s unconventional process and craft express her layered relationship with nature and cultural transformation.
