Koyoltzintli American, b. 1983

TEACHING ARTIST / INVITED GUEST LECTURER (2016-2024)

Artist Talk, Native America Exhibition, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Tx, 2024
Leading Artist workshop, Dia Chelsea, NY, 2024
Artist Talk Virginia Commonwealth, MFA Program, 2024
Artist Talk, Print Center New York, 2024
Artist Talk, Rutgers University, NJ, 2023
Artist TalK, University of South Florida, 2023
Artist Talk at Yale School of Art MFA Program, 2022
Artist Talk at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, 2022
Leading Artist workshop, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY 2022
Leading Artist workshop, Akwesasne Freedom School, NY 2022
Teaching Artist, Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, 2022
Teaching Artist, White Feather Farm, NY, 2022,
Invited artist, Dia Beacon, winter 2021, and march 2022
Teaching artist, NYC Art Corps grant cycle 1, 2022
Artist Talk, MICA, March 2021
Artist Talk, I3 SVA, February 2021
Healing, Meditation and Ecology in contemporary art practices, UNM
Walking as socially engaged art workshop, MICA and Aperture, 2021
Master Mentor for We, Women Photography Mentor program, 2020-2021
Self and Others, School of Visual Arts Photo Department, online, 2020
Art and Ecology workshop, online, 2020
Fabric of Things, Photography and Practice, 2019
Photography and Surrealism, Santa Fe community college, NM, 2018
Independent photo consultant and mentor, 2018, ongoing
Photo essay Workshops in Ecuador in conjunction with Musee Quai du Branly fellowship, 2018 Self and
Others, ICP (International center of photography), NY 2011 and 2017
Invited Professor in The Media & Photography Department, CalArts, LA Courses taught: The Artist as a
shapeshifter (Art and anthropology), Interpreting the self (portraiture and the psyche) 2016-2018

SELECTED PUBLICATION (BOOK) BIBLIOGRAPHY 2024-2017
2024
Human, Prix Pictet
Aperture Native Issue 240, Aperture Foundation, NYC
Latinx Perspective on the History of Photography, Elizabeth Ferrer
Vistas Journal, ISLAA/NYU Press
2020
Murray, Yxta Maya, “Miranda Rivadeneira: Sky Woman” Aperture Magazine Native America issue 240
2019
Cassette publication, April issue, Paris, France
The Magazine Santa Fe, June/July issue
Women Photograph
Communication Arts magazine
Remezcla
Arte al Dia
2018

Photograph Magazine
The New York Times Lens Blog
Lens Culture
PDN
Publications, Feature articles
Women Photograph, November interview
California Sunday
Greenpeace Magazine, Zurich
Wall Street Journal
Tales of Kismet magazine, Istanbul
2017
Greenpeace Magazine, August 2017
Nantar intro dreams, Lens Culture
Wall Street Journal
The New York Times

INTERVIEWS/REVIEWS
Chispa, 2022, https://www.uslaf.org/chispa
Strange Fires, 2021, https://www.strangefirecollective.com/qa-koyoltzintli-mirandarivadeneira
Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, Alone with Materials, 2020
http://projects.miyakoyoshinaga.com/telling-evening/alone-with materialsvol-2-karen-miranda-rivadeneira
Woman Photograph, 2019
https://www.womenphotograph.com/news/2018/11/1/women-talk-karen-miranda-rivadeneira NYT
Lens, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/lens/latin-american-women-photographers.html Matt
McCann, “Across Borders of Memory and Photography,” New York Times, January 9, 2013
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/across-borders-of-memory-and-photography/
Philip Kennicott, “National Portrait Gallery exhibit features and exploration of Latin Self-identity,”
Washington Post, September 18, 2014.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/nationalportrait-galleryexhibit
features-an-exploration-of-latin-self-identity/2014/09/18/d3a55030-3d24-11e4-9587-
5dafd96295f0_story.html
Beth Py-Lieberman, “Six Artists In Search of Themselves,” Smithsonian, September 19, 2014.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/six-artists-search-themselves-180952739/
Martha Schwendener, “Review: ‘Portraiture Now,’ a Group Show of Latino Artists” New York Times,
August 20, 2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/arts/design/review-portraiture-now-a-group-show-oflatino-artists.
html?_r=0 David Gonzalez, “Visualizing Magical Realism in Ecuador,” New York Times, January 4, 2018.
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/visualizing-magical-realism-in-ecuador/
“Nantar: Photography Into Dreams,” Lens Culture,
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/karenmirandarivadeneira- nantar photography-into-dreams
“Karen Miranda Rivadeneira,” Portraiture Now.
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/staging/rivadeneira.html
EDUCATION
2005 Received Bachelor in Visual Arts from School of Visual Arts, NY
2007 Post Grad Studies at Danish School of Journalism, Arhus, Demark
2022 Masters in Fine Arts, SUNY New Paltz, NY