{"id":5735,"date":"2019-02-26T11:53:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T03:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/?post_type=artist_in_residence&#038;p=5735"},"modified":"2025-03-19T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T07:52:08","slug":"karen-paulina-biswell","status":"publish","type":"artist_in_residence","link":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/artist-in-residence\/karen-paulina-biswell\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Paulina Biswell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Paulina Biswell was born in Aruba in 1983 to Colombian parents who emigrated to Paris escaping the extreme political violence of the early 90&#8217;s. She shared her childhood between France and Colombia whom she later discovers: she was 13 years old. Her varied oeuvre &#8211; which is consistently defying definition &#8211; is drawn to subjects of vulnerability morality and human fate. She is committed to capturing the lesser known aspects of contemporary life, the invisible and defiant elements of society, taking a deep interest in extreme states and the depths of the human mind and experience.<br \/>\nShe represented Colombia during exhibitions at La Cit\u00e9 International des Arts in Paris (2017) and Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles (2016 &amp; 2017). She has recently exhibited at The 60 Wall Gallery &#8211; Deutsche Bank, New York, The Vasarely Fondation in Aix-en-Provence, and the Museum of Modern Art of Me-dellin. Biswell was nominated for the Higashikawa Award in Japan, the Gd4 Pho-toart Award by MAST Foundation and the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro in Arles in 2016; the World Press Photo-Joop Swart Masterclass in 2014; She won the Photography residencies Program 2018 -2019 of the Mus \u00e9 e du Quai Bran-ly-Jacques Chirac (France) and the Second Prize of the IX Premio Colom-<br \/>\n\u2022 bo-Suizo de fotograf\u00ed a (Colombia) in 2013. Her body of work is part of the Public &amp; Institutional collections of the Mus\u00e9 e du Quai Branly &#8211; Jacques Chirac, France, Museo del Banco de la Republica, Colombia and Les Rencontres d&#8217; Ar-les, France. Lives and works between Bogota and Paris.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":5933,"template":"","class_list":["post-5735","artist_in_residence","type-artist_in_residence","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_in_residence\/5735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_in_residence"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist_in_residence"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}