Paola Oxoa (b. 1979, Medellín, Colombia) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York.
Oxoa’s abstract paintings and films are investigations into—and recordings of—moments of awareness. Through her work she reflects and seeks to understand the world within and without. By fusing landscape and the body as fluid containers of shared energies, she moves beyond representing what is seen in favor of what is felt, intuited, or understood. Oxoa’s work synthesizes and communicates perceptual experience via the formal elements of art.
Oxoa held her first solo exhibition, True Love in 2004, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, CO. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Bass Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami Beach, FL. Oxoa’s work has been reviewed in Two Coats of Paint, NYLON Magazine, Art in America, Artillery Magazine, Rocky Mountain News, and The Denver Post, among other publications.
In 2018, Oxoa founded Mother Gallery within her studio in Beacon, NY. Her curatorial work through Mother has been featured or reviewed in Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, Two Coats of Paint, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, Whitewall, and The New York Times.