Maria-Providencia Casanovas
Semifinalist

Maria Providencia Casanovas (b. 1963 Barcelona, Spain; l. New York, NY) has a BFA from Universitat de Barcelona and an MFA and Non-toxic Printmaking Advanced Certificate from Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. Her work has been exhibited at Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington; C33 Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL; Hirschl & Adler at the IFPDA Print Fair, New York School of Interior Design, and Print Center New York; all New York, NY; William Harris Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology; Vashon Center for the Arts, WA; as well as Can Gelabert, Spain. Casanovas has received numerous fellowships and grants, including awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Consell Nacional de les Arts, Entitat Autònoma de Difusió Cultural and Oficina de Suport a la Iniciativa Cultural. Se has been an artist-in-residence at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst; MacDowell Colony, Petersborough, NH; Vashon Artist Residency, WA; as well as Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium; Ebenböckhaus, Germany; Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Spain.

Statement from the Artist:
My work is based in the immediacy of everyday life and the spaces we inhabit. Through sustained, site-responsive engagement with domestic and transitional environments, I follow the subtle traces left by the living – imprints, residues and gestures – to explore how identity is shaped in relation to place and memory. Working across photography, printmaking, drawing and the moving image, I use walking, observation and physical action as forms of embodied research, where process and experience become integral to the work itself.

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