Paola Davila

28° 14' 22.942'' N, 114° 6' 4.129'' W-6. Cyanotype photograph of the ocean waves

2022

Paola Davila, was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, on October 26, 1980. She studied Visual Arts at the National School of Plastic Arts of Mexico, where she attended the contemporary painting seminar taught by maestro Ignacio Salazar. In addition to taking various theory and photography workshops. In 2002, he received the National Photography Prize of the Yucatan Visual Arts Biennial, the Acquisition Prize of the Fourth Art Freedom Contest, and the Young Creators FOECA state scholarship by the state of Oaxaca. It has nine individual exhibitions and more than 30 collective exhibitions both in Mexico and abroad. In 2010, he received the Tierney Grant awarded by the Tierney Foundation of New York by the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center to carry out the Temporary Interiors project. She has been a beneficiary of the Young Creators Program, FONCA in 2003, 2006, and 2011. In 2014 she received the Scholarship for Artistic Exchanges and Residencies, FONCA-Land Salzburg of Austria, thanks to which she developed the Schrebergarten project. In 2017 the City of Oaxaca awarded her the degree of Distinguished Citizen, in recognition of her artistic career. In 2019 he obtained a Master's degree in Visual Arts from UNAM with an honorable mention. In 2021 he obtains the acquisition prize at the XIX National Photography Biennial, organized by the Image Center. Since 2020 he is a member of the National System of Art Creators, FONCA, CONACULTA.