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Karen Miranda Rivadeneira

Born New York City, 1983

Since 2006, Karen Miranda Rivadeneira’s photographic projects have focused on identity and intimacy. With her family’s participation, she has staged and photographed memories of her childhood in her family’s home in Queens, New York. She has also worked with native peoples, such as the Mam in Guatemala, the Mandaeans (from south of Iraq and west of Iran) living in Sweden, and the Waoranis in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Most recently she has explored such ancient traditions as shamanism in the Andean Mountains. In these diverse locations she uses the medium of photography to locate the universal while exploring the intersection of memory and tradition.

Miranda Rivadeneira earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships, including a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in photography, the EnFoco New Works Award, and a grant from the Queens Council of the Arts. She has published and exhibited widely and is an invited participant in the 2014 Latin American Photography Forum in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Karen Miranda Rivadeneira

Nacida en Nueva York, 1983

Desde 2006, los proyectos fotográficos de Karen Miranda Rivadeneira se han centrado en la identidad e intimidad a nivel global. Con la participación de su familia, ha representado y fotografiado recuerdos de su niñez en su hogar familiar de Queens, Nueva York. También ha trabajado con grupos indígenas y étnicos, tales como los Mam de Guatemala, los Mandeos (del sur de Irak y oeste de Irán) residentes en Suecia y los Waoranis de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana. Más recientemente, ha explorado tradiciones antiguas tales como el chamanismo de la Cordillera Andina. En estos variados contextos, utiliza el medio de la fotografía para localizar lo universal y al mismo tiempo explorar la intersección de la memoria y la tradición.

Miranda Rivadeneira obtuvo su bachillerato en arte el School of Visual Arts de Nueva York. Ha recibido diversos reconocimientos , incluyendo una beca de fotografía del New York Foundation for the Arts, el EnFoco New Works Award y una beca del Queens Council of the Arts. Ha realizado varias publicaciones y exposiciones y fue participante invitada del Foro Latinoamericano de Fotografía 2014 de São Paulo, Brasil.

Karen Miranda Rivadeneira

Born New York City, 1983

Since 2006, Karen Miranda Rivadeneira’s photographic projects have focused on identity and intimacy. With her family’s participation, she has staged and photographed memories of her childhood in her family’s home in Queens, New York. She has also worked with native peoples, such as the Mam in Guatemala, the Mandaeans (from south of Iraq and west of Iran) living in Sweden, and the Waoranis in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Most recently she has explored such ancient traditions as shamanism in the Andean Mountains. In these diverse locations she uses the medium of photography to locate the universal while exploring the intersection of memory and tradition.

Miranda Rivadeneira earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships, including a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in photography, the EnFoco New Works Award, and a grant from the Queens Council of the Arts. She has published and exhibited widely and is an invited participant in the 2014 Latin American Photography Forum in São Paulo, Brazil.


Karen Miranda Rivadeneira

Nacida en Nueva York, 1983

Desde 2006, los proyectos fotográficos de Karen Miranda Rivadeneira se han centrado en la identidad e intimidad a nivel global. Con la participación de su familia, ha representado y fotografiado recuerdos de su niñez en su hogar familiar de Queens, Nueva York. También ha trabajado con grupos indígenas y étnicos, tales como los Mam de Guatemala, los Mandeos (del sur de Irak y oeste de Irán) residentes en Suecia y los Waoranis de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana. Más recientemente, ha explorado tradiciones antiguas tales como el chamanismo de la Cordillera Andina. En estos variados contextos, utiliza el medio de la fotografía para localizar lo universal y al mismo tiempo explorar la intersección de la memoria y la tradición.

Miranda Rivadeneira obtuvo su bachillerato en arte el School of Visual Arts de Nueva York. Ha recibido diversos reconocimientos , incluyendo una beca de fotografía del New York Foundation for the Arts, el EnFoco New Works Award y una beca del Queens Council of the Arts. Ha realizado varias publicaciones y exposiciones y fue participante invitada del Foro Latinoamericano de Fotografía 2014 de São Paulo, Brasil.

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My mom thanking the rain and Maria worrying that I might get sick, ongoing until 1992
Digital C-print scanned from 6 x 6 negative, 2010
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© Karen Miranda Rivadeneira
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My mom braiding my hair like her mother did to her, ca. 1990
Digital C-print scanned from 6 x 6 negative, 2010
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Mom healing me from my fear of iguanas, by taking me to the park and feeding them every weekend, ca. 1994
Digital C-print scanned from 6 x 6 negative, 2012
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National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

August 22, 2014 through April 12, 2015

Americas Society, New York City

June 10, 2015 through October 18, 2015

National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico

November 6, 2015 through March 27, 2016.