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Paola Vela 

Born Lima, Peru – 1973 




Higher Education Studies



[2011] Licentiate in Fine Arts. Main Subject: Memory. Discipline: Video Art, Experimental Film. Thesis: 1977, Reconstruccción de la memoria en imágenes en movimiento a través de la práctica del Found Footage. Pontifical Catholic University. School of Fine Arts. Lima, PE.

[1997] B. F. A. (Hons) Main Subject: Landscape, Bestiary. Discipline: Printmaking (Etching). Pontifical Catholic University. School of Fine Arts. Lima, PE.



Professional Experience


Residencies, programs and workshops 


[2013] 
Workshop for Contemporary Artists with Tacita Dean (UK). Fundación Botín, Villa Iris. Santander, ES.

[2010] 
Workshop ‘Video Art: Found Object’ with Aernout Mik (NE). Espacio Fundación Telefónica. Lima, PE.

[2008] 
VI Berlinale Talent Campus. Selected as Director and Visual Artist. 58th Berlinale Film Festival. Berlin, DE.




Scholarships  and Prizes



[2013]
Fellowship Botin Foundation. Santader, ES.

[2009]
Recommendation of the Jury. Videonale 12. Bonn, DE.

[2008]
Goethe Institute. 6th Berlinale Talent Campus. 58th Berlin Film Festival. Berlin, DE.




Major Selected Exhibitions



Screenings / Film Festivals or Group Exhibitions



[2013]
Insurgency in movement: Anthology of Peruvian Audiovisual Margins. Lima Art Museum MALI. Lima, PE.
Projects Presentations. Villa Iris. Santander, ES.

[2012]
Nomades Borders II. Territorial Interference – Artistic Flows. Church and Convent of Santo Domingo – Qorikancha. Cusco, PE.
Nomades Borders II. Territorial Interference – Artistic Flows. Olho Latino-Atibaja Museum. Curitiba, BR.

[2011]
Nomades Borders II. Territorial Interference – Artistic Flows. Metropolitan University of Education Sciences Hall. Santiago, CL.

[2010]
3rd Festival Film Cine//B_3. Santiago de Chile, CL.
XIV Lima Film Festival. Short Films Digital Section. Lima, PE.
VAE11. First National Video Art Competition. Lima, PE.
Festival of the Nations. Ebensee, AT.
28th Marché de la Poésie. Place Saint Sulpice. Paris, FR.
Oslo Screen Festival. Filmes Hus. Oslo, NO.
FALA Audio Audiovisual Festival. Lambayeque, PE.

[2009]
Videonale 12. Kunstmuseum. Bonn, DE.
6th F.I.F.E. Internacional Experimental Film Festival Carbunari. Maramures, RO.
19th INVIDEO International ExhibitionVideo & Cinema Beyond. Spazio Oberdan. Milan, IT.
2nd Videoholica. International Video Art Festival. Varna, BG.

[2008]
XII Lima Film Festival. Short Films Digital Section. Lima, PE.

[2007]
XXIV Bogota Film Festival. 3 AnimaCine Section. Bogota, CO.

[2006]
X Lima Film Festival. Short Films Digital Section. Lima, PE.
7th Ovalle Film Festival. Short Film Competition. Ovalle, CL.
4th Bolivarian Film and Video Day. Santa Marta, CO.
Happy Hour/Peruvian Video. Centro Fundación Telefónica. Lima, PE.