andi icaza is an artist and facilitator with ties and responsibilities to Central America and to queer and displaced communities. Their practice observes modes of belonging, mourning and resistance, searching for possibilities within tensions. She has to redact this bio for the time being, holds a BFA in Visual Art (SFU 2017) and has continued her education through a BCAC’s Early Career Development Grant (2019) alongside mentors and Althea Thauberger and two Canada Council for the Arts grants (2023-24) to forward a transnational visual storytelling practice focused on lens-based mediums, printed matter, audiovisual culture, performance and text and collaboration.
contact: icazandi@gmail.com
EDUCATION & RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2023-24 Research Resident, Fabrica de Creación La Escocesa, Barcelona
: Gathering, multi-location
2023 Programa de Estudios , Barcelona
Can Serrat Winter - Spring Art Residency, El Bruc
2022 En Palabras: Relatos Migrantes, Writing workshop, Barcelona
Bookbinding and Artistic Editions, Escola d’Art La Industrial, Barcelona
Welding for artists, Escola Massana, Barcelona
Mentorship Program with Rocio Graham, G44 x BIPOC Mentorship
2021 Emerging Visual Artist Online Intensive, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity
2020 Laboratorio Audiovisual, Cinema Regional y Centro Cultural de España en Nicaragua
2019-20 BCAC Early Career Development Grant with and Althea Thauberger
2016 Internship with Publication Studios Vancouver
2013-17 Simon Fraser University- BFA in Visual Arts (with Distinction)
EXHIBITIONS
2023 , Festival, Ireland
2022 Proyecto Origen, Group Exhibition, SCA Expo, Boston
Out of Bounds, Group Show, Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver
: Itinerant Group Exhibition, PhotoDemos
2021 I Spy… 2021, Online Group Exhibition, UNIT/PITT, Vancouver
, Group Exhibition, Casa America, Madrid, Spain
2020 , Group Exhibition, Museo del Pobre y Trabajador
2019 Masquerade, Group Exhibition, The Hatch Gallery, UBC
2018 De Rerum Natura, MAFA 5, Arad, Transylvania, Rumania
we were told we shouldn't, with Nico Yu, fiftyfifty collective, Victoria BC
, Group Exhibition, Berlin
untitled (a mountain bought but not yet named), Solo Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver
I know you are but what am I, with Aghig Gougani, Centre A, Vancouver
New Generation Photography Award, OCAD Onsite, Toronto
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2017 Laboratory Landscape, Group Exhibition, Stanley Park, Vancouver
Lazy Susan, Graduation Group Exhibition, Audain Gallery, Vancouver
2016 tiene Parasitos: Un Borrador, , Managua
Tender Admission Solo Exhibition, SCA Office Series, Vancouver
Dear Leader, what I love… BFA Project, SFU, Vancouver
2012 5PM Managua, Nicaragua 2012 GRID Photofestival, Amsterdam
PUBLICATIONS
2023 (n) , self-published
2022 / : special addition, Moniker Press
2021 'Sugar Espadillo Flower Petals', Colonial Imports vol. 2, Yolkless Press
2020 'the dog, spirits and a fly' short story, SAD Mag 'Death' Issue, Vancouver
2019 p , Moniker Press, Vancouver
2017 Hollow, Landmarks PIA program, Vancouver
2016 A Conversation Between: Hobbes Ginsberg & Andi Icaza, The Blue Library Volume 2, New Orleans
moist beings, Publication Studios Vancouver, Canada
2015 10800: Cultura Visual de Extremo a Extremo, Nicaragua
2014 Musica y Fiesta: Cultura en Imagenes de la Region Atlantico Sur (RAAS), OEI Nicaragua
2008 Generacion CTRL + ALT + DEL Pata de Perro, Nicaragua
FACILITATION
Arts-based educational workshops on art as resistance
2019- Reframing Relations, Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Volunteering for a Better World: Mutual Support, Bodwell High School, North Vancouver
2018 Grassroots & Community Advocacy: Extractivism and Resistance, Where there be dragons, Guatemala
Arts Umbrella Visual Art Summer Intensive, Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
2022 Seed Awardee
2018 New Generation Photography Award, Canadian Photography Institute Shortlist
2017 Contemporary Art Gallery Prize
BMO 1st Art! Competition Nomination
Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize Longlist
2016 AIMIA|AGO Scholarship Honourary Mention Tanabe/Thorne Annual Award in Visual Arts
2015 Best Portfolio in Photography Canon Canada and School for the Contemporary Arts Prize
2015, 16 Undergraduate Open Scholarship Simon Fraser University
CONTRIBUTIONS
2017- @
2015- Photographer @ Discorder Magazine
2014 Author and Photographer @ VANDOCUMENT