Koyoltzintli American, b. 1983
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1000 Ceder 1000 Cedar, 2019
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Artemisia , 2019
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Bisti DeNaZin, 2019
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Gathering Roots and Holding Up the Sky, 2019
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Ix Balam I, 2019
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Mud Woman Gazing, 2019
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Obu-Oja , 2019
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Ollin Mecatl, 2019
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Spider Woman Embrace, 2019
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Stardust Woman , 2019
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White Calf Woman, 2019
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El Sueño, 2018
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Ice Crown, 2018
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Ollin Mecatl II, 2018
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Pawkar Killa, 2018
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Sentinel, 2018
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Sentinel Gathering , 2018
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The Calling , 2018
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The Voice of the River, 2018
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Hand and Rock, 2016
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Matilde in Her Thursday Bath, 2016
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Mouth of the Mountain Jaguar, 2015
Koyoltzintli (formerly known as Karen Miranda Rivadeneira) explores the relationships between humans and nature through factual and fictional narratives inviting us into a fantastical world. Rivadeneira' photographic projects investigate identity and intimacy by threading personal and collective narratives centered in Indigenous myths, animism, memory, oppression, and nature.
Koyoltzintli (Karen Miranda Rivadeneira) was born in New York City in 1983 and raised in both the United States and Ecuador. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts and holds a post-graduate degree for her studies in photography at the Danish School of Journalism. Nominated for Prix Pictet in 2019, her work has been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, SC, the United Nations, and the Photographic Museum of Humanity, among others. She has been an artist in residence in the US, France, and Italy and has taught photography at the California Institute of the Arts and the City University of New York. Koyoltzintli has received multiple awards and fellowships including the Photographic Fellowship at the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris, the New York Foundation for Arts Fellow in Photography, and the Individual Artist grant by the Queens Council of the Arts. Her first monograph Other Stories/Historias Bravas was published in 2017 by Autograph ABP. Her work was featured in the Native America issue of Aperture Magazine (no. 240) last fall and was included in the book Latinx Photography in the United States by Elizabeth Ferrer published this year in January.
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1000 Ceder 1000 Cedar, 2019
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Artemisia , 2019
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Bisti DeNaZin, 2019
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Gathering Roots and Holding Up the Sky, 2019
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Ix Balam I, 2019
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Mud Woman Gazing, 2019
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Obu-Oja , 2019
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Ollin Mecatl, 2019
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Spider Woman Embrace, 2019
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Stardust Woman , 2019
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White Calf Woman, 2019
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El Sueño, 2018
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Ice Crown, 2018
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Ollin Mecatl II, 2018
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Pawkar Killa, 2018
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Sentinel, 2018
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Sentinel Gathering , 2018
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The Calling , 2018
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The Voice of the River, 2018
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Hand and Rock, 2016
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Matilde in Her Thursday Bath, 2016
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Mouth of the Mountain Jaguar, 2015
Exhibitions
| 2021 | Bric Arts media, Fall 2021(two-person show) |
| MEDA (solo show) - Miyako Yoshinaga gallery, NY | |
| NATIVE AMERICA - Aperture foundation, traveling exhibit group show | |
| Subversive Kin, the act of turning over (group show) - El Clemente, NY | |
| Artwork from MEDA Spider Woman Embrace on a billboard for Save Art Space, LA | |
| 2020 | Our connection to the Land (3 person show) - MAPLA, San Jose, California |
| Mountain Jaguar… - +ArteGaleria, Quito, Ecuador | |
| 2019 | 20th anniversary group show - Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, NYC |
| Women Photograph exhibit - Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles | |
| FestFotoPoa, Dialogos Internacionales, Porto Alegre, Brazil | |
| Group exhibit, Ylisse Kessler gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 2018 | Women in film and Photography, Objectifs Centre, Singapore |
| BAp Festival, 2 person exhibit, Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
| Screening of proposed project, Half King Photo Series, NYC, NY | |
| Solo Show FotoForum, Santa Fe, New Mexico | |
| Solo Show Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, NYC NY | |
| Natural Artifice (group show) Oxford, London | |
| 2016 | Spiritu (3 person show) - Atlanta Month of Photography exhibit, Atlanta |
| Staging the Self (3 person show) - NMHM, Albuquerque, NM. | |
| 2015 | We are family - Musee Quai du Branly Biennial, Paris, France |
| Staging the Self - Americas Society, NYC | |
| Latino US ( group show) - King Carlos Spanish Institute Center, NYC | |
| 2014 | Staging the Self - National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, DC |
| Latino US (group show) - LACMA, LA | |
| Views from Home - Northlight Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona | |
| 2013 | Hearst Foundation group show, 8x10, NYC |
| Exhibition at Itau Cultural, Latin American Forum, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
| LatinoUS - Embassy of Spain, Washington DC | |
| Crossing Boundaries (group show) - BRIC Arts&Media, Brooklyn | |
| 2012 | Recontres des Arles Transience (group show) - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Solo Show - Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon | |
| Identity (group show) - Latvia Museum of Contemporary Photography | |
| 2011 | RealWays Solo show as part of the Real Ways Award - Hartford, Connecticut |
| Photo Forum Review, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas | |
| Bliss St. Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon | |
| Pour L'Instant group exhibition, Niort, France | |
| Recontres des Arles Transience (group show) - Arles, France | |
| Home - Dublin Art Festival, Dublin, Ireland | |
| Other Stories - Diaphane Foundation Photo Festival, Breche, France | |
| Juried Show at Newspace Center of Photography, Washington, Seattle | |
| 2010 | En Foco - Calumet Photographic, New York, NYC |
| Vision de la Mort (group show) - Queens Museum, NYC | |
| Migrations - United Nations Exhibition, NYC | |
| 2006 | Assab 1, Milan, Italy |
| The Aesthetics of Resistance, Milan, Italy | |
| 2005 | Closer - Westside Gallery, NYC |
Artist-in-Residencies
| 2021 | Artist in Residence - Woodstock Center for Photography |
| Artist in Residence - BRIC Arts Media | |
| 2013/17 | Wurlitzer Foundation Residency - Taos, New Mexico |
| 2012 | LightWork Artist-in-Residence - Syracuse, NY |
| 2011 | Pour L'Image Residency - Niort, France |
| 2005 | Fondazione Antonio Ratti, residency w/Alfredo Jaar - Como, Italy |
Awards/Grants/Fellowships/Nominations
| 2020 | We Women Grant |
| 2019 | Shortlisted for the Berido Hariban Award, Japan |
| Shortlisted for the Rolex Mentor/Protégé Initiative, Switzerland | |
| Nomination for the Prix Pictet, Hope, Switzeland | |
| Image for cover of UNESCO Courier dedicated to the Indigenous languages | |
| 2018 | Paul Huf Award nomination |
| 2017/18 | Photography Fellowship at the Musee quai du Branly, Paris, France |
| 2017 | WorldPress Photo 6x6 program nomination |
| 2016/17 | Greenpeace Photography nomination |
| 2015 | Selected Artist at the 3rd Latin American Forum, Sao Paulo |
| 2013/15 | Selected photographer for the NYT review, NYC |
| 2012 | Recontres des Arles Invited Artist, Arles, France |
| 2011 | Photoannual, photo festival in Beauvais, France |
| 2010 | NYFA, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, NYC |
| Real Art Ways Photography Award | |
| "New Works #13" by Anne Tucker, Nueva Luz journal, Vol.14 | |
| 2009 | Selected Participant for the LMCC Workspace, NYC |
| New Works Photography Fellowship Award, EnFoco, NYC | |
| Individual Artist Initiative Award, Queens Council of the Arts | |
| Urban Artist Initiative Award, Bronx Council of the Arts | |
| Biennial FotoFest Photo Review, Texas | |
| 2007 | Danish School of Journalism, Photography Grant, Arhus, Denmark |
Public Collections
Musee du Quai Branly
LightWork foundation
Pour L'Instant, Niort, France
EnFoco Collection, NYC
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Fine Arts, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Fondazione Ratti, Milan, Italy
Publication
Other Stories/Historias Bravas Book release, Autograph ABP, London
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Coexistence
Four-Person Online Exclusive Exhibition January 11 - February 15, 2023To kick off the new year, MIYAKO YOSHINAGA is pleased to present Coexistence, an online-exclusive exhibition featuring landscapes by four gallery artists: Hai Zhang, Jonathan Yukio Clark, Koyoltzintli, and Lisa Ross.Read more -
Karen Miranda Rivadeneira: Meda
April 23 - July 31, 2021Karen Miranda Rivadeneira‘s new series MEDA consists of photographs, silkscreens, and paintings that are the results of her investigation on the primordial relationship between humans and the earth.Read more
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PARIS PHOTO 2021
Stand F17 November 11 - 14, 2021After our successful 2017 and 2018 Paris Photo participations, we are delighted to return this year with works by a selected group of our highest...Read more -
Madison Avenue Spring Gallery Walk
May 15, 2021We're pleased to participate in Madison Avenue Gallery Walk Saturday, May 15 from 11 am to 6 pm. As part of this event, we will...Read more
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1000 Ceder 1000 Cedar, 2019
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Artemisia , 2019
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Bisti DeNaZin, 2019
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Gathering Roots and Holding Up the Sky, 2019
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Ix Balam I, 2019
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Mud Woman Gazing, 2019
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Obu-Oja , 2019
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Ollin Mecatl, 2019
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Spider Woman Embrace, 2019
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Stardust Woman , 2019
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White Calf Woman, 2019
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El Sueño, 2018
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Ice Crown, 2018
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Ollin Mecatl II, 2018
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Pawkar Killa, 2018
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Sentinel, 2018
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Sentinel Gathering , 2018
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The Calling , 2018
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The Voice of the River, 2018
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Hand and Rock, 2016
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Matilde in Her Thursday Bath, 2016
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Mouth of the Mountain Jaguar, 2015
Monograph
2017
Other Stories/Historias Bravas, Autograph ABP
Bibliography and Publications
Vistas Journal, ISLAA/NYU Press
A Latino Perspective on the History of Photography, Elizabeth Ferrer
Women Photograph
Communication Arts magazine
Remezcla
Arte al Dia
The Magazine Santa Fe, june/july issue
PhotographMag
NYT Art Review
Lens Culture
PDN
Publications, Feature Articles
2021
Latinx Photography in the United States by Elizabeth Ferrer
2020
the Native America issue of Aperture Magazine (no. 240)
2019
Causette publication, April issue, Paris, France
2018
Photograph Magazine
Women Photograph, november interview
California Sunday
Greenpeace magazine, Zurich
Wall Street Journal, NYC
Tales of Kismet magazine, Istanbul
2017
Nantar intro dreams, Lens Culture
2014
New York Times Lens
Archivo, First Edition
“Identity”, Lisbon, Portugal
2012
Art Park Journal, Vol #2, Byron, Australia
2011
La Nouvelle Republic, Paris, France (culture section) June
Le Tigre Magazine, Paris, France
Anaconda Journal, Vol 29
2010
Nueva Luz Journal, Vol 14#3
Latina Leaders, Vol 10, Vol 11, Vol 12
2009
Looking South (United Nations Journal, 2009)
2008
Anaconda Magazine, Vol 10 & 12
LatinAmerika Tisdkriften, Vol 1
Dazed Magazine
Prospect Magazine, Issue 142
Skin Magazine, Vol 2, Issue 11
2007
Gara Newspaper
FolketiBild, Vol 6 & 7
Vagabond Magazine, Vol 7
Terra Incognita, Vol 49
2006
The Aesthetics of Resistance Catalog (Ratti Foundation, 2006)
