Cristina Velásquez

Through photography and weaving I learn about translation between cultures in resistance —both as a mechanism for oppression and silencing, as well as a powerful tool for connection and reparation. My work speaks to the complexities of negotiating overlapping imaginaries, the global circulation of popular culture, and the process by which objects, images, and people carry meaning. I am interested in how, inevitably, a dominant culture sanitizes and reduces the other in a subtle, and not-so-subtle, continuity of colonialism.

Cristina Velásquez (b. Colombia) is an artist and publisher based between Austin and Bogotá. She received an MFA from Bard College - International Center of Photography, NYC, in 2017. Velásquez’s work has been exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée, the ICP Museum, ArtBo, MoMA PS1, the Houston Center for Photography, and the Society for Photographic Education, among others, and is held in both private and public collections. Her photo-books have been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Getty Institute, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, ICP, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and George Washington University, among others. Recent awards and residencies include the Dust Collective Prize (2025), Latitude AIR (2023), Regeneration 4 at the Musée de l’Elysée (2020), Light Work (2019), the Carol Crow Fellowship (2019), and the Kris Graves Project, Lost II Book Prize (2019). Velásquez is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of New Poetics Publishing, an independent press that collaborates with emerging artists on contemporary and experimental approaches to photography in book form. She is also the Art Director at Paisajes Coloniales. Velásquez is represented by Assembly Gallery.