Paola Oxoa (b. 1979, Medellín, Colombia)
Paola Oxoa is an American artist whose work centers on a singular visual form developed privately over more than a decade. The form first appeared in 2014, following an experience while traveling in a dugout canoe, where Oxoa registered the dissolution of boundaries between her body and the surrounding environment. The resulting awareness of energetic continuity remains a central premise of her practice.
In 2023, after an extended period of drawing, she began painting with this form. Her process is structured and intentional, attuned to the energy perceived in the environment and body at the time of making. The surface of each painting records these conditions, indexing shifts in presence through the application of paint.
Oxoa’s work engages the legacy of postwar abstraction and systems-based practices, while extending beyond historical precedent. The form operates less as motif than as vessel—an architecture through which perceptual, energetic, and temporal states may be transmitted. Her practice is shaped by broader inquiries into structure, language, and non-verbal modes of communication.
She lives and works in Beacon, NY.