About

Vivian Vivas is a visual artist who fuses moving image, sound, performance, unchoreographed dance, and installation. Her work addresses boundaries in contemporary issues, challenging prevailing notions surrounding migration, identity, and climate collapse. By breaking with historical lenses, Vivian reimagines the narratives and complexities that underlie societal constructs, creating space to reassemble lost fragments of collective amnesia.

She was a finalist for the 2022 Frankenthaler Climate Award and received the 2018 Kodak Award from SFAI. The artist held a recent solo show at Dilalica Gallery in Barcelona (participating in the Loop Festival video art circuit) and was included in group shows at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami and at Root Division in San Francisco. Recent performances include ARTefACTe 2023 in Barcelona and the John Giorno Octopus Series at Performance Space in New York. Her work was showcased in: In Response: Jonas Mekas at the Jewish Museum in New York, Summer Salon at Half Gallery in New York, Between the Self and its True Home at the UCLA New Wight International Biennial in Los Angeles, and High Beams No.6 Convoy at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver. 

Vivian received her MFA in Visual Arts with a concentration in Moving Image from Columbia University and her BFA in Film and Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She previously studied Photography at the Andy Goldstein School of Creative Photography in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Vivian is a Latin American artist who lives and works in New York.