Cristina Velásquez
Semifinalist

Fireball Printing Award

Cristina Velásquez (born 1985, Colombia; lives Austin, TX, and Bogotá, Colombia) is an artist, photo editor and publisher. She holds an MFA from the International Center of Photography-Bard College Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, New York, NY. Velásquez has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Society for Photographic Education, Boulder, CO; Houston Center for Photography, TX; and the International Center of Photography and MoMA PS1, both New York; as well as at ARTBO, Bogotá; and the Musée de l’Elysée, Lusanne, Switzerland. She has won fellowships and awards including the Carol Crow Fellowship, the Dust Collective Prize and a Kris Graves Project Lost II Book Prize. She has had residencies at Latitude Chicago and Light Work. She has published four books – Montañera (2017), Viterbo (2019), Quiéreme Mucho (2020) and Embriagantes (2023) – and is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of New Poetics Publishing. Velásquez is the Art Director at Paisajes Coloniales and is represented by Assmebly Gallery, Houston, TX.

Statement from the Artist:
Family Bestiary reimagines the boundaries of identity and explores the connections between the familiar and the fantastic. By incorporating weaving, textiles, and layered collages into photographic compositions, the project transforms intimate family moments into hybrid narratives and spaces for healing and self-narration. Through this experimental approach, the work challenges static legacies, reimagines traditional Latin American portraiture, and connects personal histories to material culture across past, present, and future.

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