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Selva Aparicio is an interdisciplinary artist exploring ideas of memory, intimacy, and the temporality of life through installations that celebrate the cyclicity of the natural world. Working with nature’s ephemera, including cicada wings, oyster shells, and human cadavers, her praxis is an extended death ritual that foregrounds a reverence for these materials, caught in physical and spiritual limbo of their own. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015) and her MFA in sculpture from Yale University (2017). She received the Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation Artadia Award in 2022, and her sculpture “Auto-da-Fé,” exhibited at EXPO Chicago in 2023, was donated to the DePaul Art Museum with funds from the Inaugural Barbara Nessim Acquisition Prize. Current projects include a major solo exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum in 2024, as well as outdoor permanent sculptures for both the Belgium Beaufort 2024 Triennale and Italy’s Heraclea Archaeological Park. She is based jointly in Chicago and her native Spain.
Image credit Kelsey Sucena
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