Koyoltzintli

Koyoltzintli is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in Ulster County, New

York. She was raised on the Pacific coast and in the Andean mountains of Ecuador.

Her work revolves around sound, ancestral technologies, ritual, and storytelling,

blending collaborative processes with personal narratives. Nominated for the Prix

Pictet in 2019 and 2023, her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery

in Washington, DC, the United Nations, the Parrish Art Museum, Princeton

University, the Aperture Foundation in NYC, and Paris Photo. She has had two solo

shows at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery and a solo show at Leila Greiche in 2023.

Koyoltzintli has taught at CalArts, SVA, ICP, and CUNY. She has received multiple

awards and fellowships, including at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, NYFA, We

Women, the Latinx Artist Fellowship by the US Latinx Art Forum (USLAF), and

most recently, the Anonymous Was a Woman award. Her first monograph, Other

Stories, was published in 2017 by Autograph ABP. Her work was featured in the

Native issue of Aperture Magazine (no. 240) and included in the book Latinx

Photography in the United States by Elizabeth Ferrer, former chief curator at BRIC.

She is part of Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024, El Museo del Barrio’s second

large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art.

Koyoltzintli has performed at venues such as the Whitney Museum, Wave Hill,

Socrates Park, Brooklyn Museum, and Queens Museum, Performance Space in NYC,

and Dia Chelsea.