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Paloma Contreras Lomas
Mexico City, 1991
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By employing drawing, sculpture, performance, writing and multimedia installation, Paloma Contreras Lomas addresses subjects such as gender, violence, political inheritance and structure, class segregation and post-colonialism.

By using landscape as her videos' witness and through the creation of costumes and characters with anthropological character, Contreras achieves rural portraits through the Mexican thriller and explores the exotisation of the indigenous class, colonial guilt and the constructed middle class identity.

Through investigation and by approaching certain groups or communities, Contreras Lomas’ work contains affective bonds and, on occasions, a hint of autobiographical projection.

Lives and works in Mexico City.

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Paloma Contreras Lomas has a bachelor’s degree in visual arts at La Esmeralda and was part of Programa Educativo SOMA, both in Mexico City. She obtained the CIFO Cisneros Fontanals grant (with acquisition prize) for emerging artists and the Jóvenes Creadores del FONCA grant.

Her work has been shown at Galeria Agustina Ferreyra, Puerto Rico; kurimanzutto, Mexico; Palais de Tokio, Paris; Lille 3000 Eldorado, Lille; Museo Tamayo, Galería Lodos, MUCA Roma, Alumnos 47, Ladrón Galería and Biquini Wax, Mexico City. In recent years it has been included in public and private collections such as the Tamayo Museum, CIFO, Estrellita B. Brodsky collection, Fundación M, KADIST, Phillips/Yuyito and Seattle Art Museum.

She was resident at Lille 3000 Eldorado in Lille.

Selection of Works
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Ahí se dan su quién vive (Coatlicue)
Acrylic, indian ink, oil pastel and color pencil on canvas
300 x 280 cm
2023
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Macho probado, macho calado
Acrylic, indian ink, oil pastel and color pencil on canvas
280 x 290 cm
2023
Paloma Contreras Lomas
SIEDO, antes SEIDO
Metal structure, foam, textiles and synthetic fur
90 x 227 x 90 cm
2023
Paloma Contreras Lomas
La Paca (Rancho el Encanto)
Foam, textiles and synthetic fur
120 x 90 x 90 cm
2023
Paloma Contreras Lomas
La guerra sucia o la dama de Shangái
Metal structure, styrofoam, resin, automotive paint, textiles and synthetic fur
140 x 170 x 270 cm
2023
Paloma Contreras
Amar A Dios En Tierra De Indios, Es Oficio Maternal
Exhibition view from Desert X
2023
Paloma Contreras
La fiebre de oro
Medium-length film poster
2021
Paloma Contreras
El socio del silencio (Paisaje Forense)
Graphite, charcoal and pastel stick on linen, artist frame
65.3 x 73.2 x 3.1 inches
2023
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Sexo espectral, mami sobrenatural
Pastels on raw canvas; resin and airbrush on wooden folding screen
69.6 x 139.3 inches
2022
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Sexo espectral, mami sobrenatural (detalle)
2022
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Papi soy tu vaquero, dime vaquero papi, soy tu vaquero
Pastels on raw canvas
13.1 x 7.8 ft
2022
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Ana María, llena eres de gracia
Pastels on raw canvas
13.1 x 7.8 ft
2022
Paloma Contreras Lomas
La vida secreta de los perros
Ink and oil pastels on paper
62.9 x 157.5 inches
2018-2022
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Oficio de tinieblas
Graphite on Cotton Paper
47 x 30 inches
2020
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Cuebaby
Installation: plush fabric, foam, velvet, textiles, plastic plants, vinyl, moldable foam, tulle, cushions, wool and steel. "Piedras muertas de miedo": Single-channel HD color and sound video
85.43 x 90.55 x 149.61 inches
2021
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Sin título
Foam, textiles and metal structure
39.37 x 39.37 x 31.5 inches
2021
Paloma Contreras
Los Marcados
Foamy Sculptures covered with Resin on Lightbox
Variable Dimensions
2020
Paloma Contreras
Sombrero de Hidroeléctrica
Plush hat, velvet, stuffed fabric, different textiles
39.4 x 43.3 inches
2020
Paloma Contreras Lomas
La Cueva
Plush, foam, satin and wire
9.8 x 47.2 x 47.2 inches
2020
Paloma Contreras
Bugs Bunny detrás de un arbusto mesófilo
Charcoal on paper
39.4 x 27.6 inches
2020
Paloma Contreras Lomas
“¿Estamos, Kimosabe?”
Bugs Bunny’s Stuffed Body behind a Fabric Mesophyll Shrub, Wire and Foam Hat covered in Fabric
5 x 8 x 4.5 feet
2020
Palomas Contreras Lomas
Jennifer Jason Leigh en Los ocho más odiados
Stuffed Yucca, Leather, Foam, Polyfoam, Wool and Toy Gun
7 x 6 x 6.5 inches
2020
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Quentin Saguarantino, un thriller
Stuffed Saguaro, Wool, Polyfoam, Textiles and Latex Gun
7 x 4 x 3 feet
2020
Paloma Contreras
Cimarrón
Polyfoam Hat covered in Felt, Wool, and Foam
27 x 47 x 47 inches
2020
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Sergio Leone asesina a la Conasupo
Polyfoam Hat covered in Felt, Wool, and Foam
47 x 45 x 47 inches
2020
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Oficio de tinieblas
Set of 3. Foam, vinyl, plush fabric and plastic
104.72 x 133.86 x 186.22 inches
2021
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Doctrina Monroe
Graphite on Cotton Paper
30 x 47 inches
2020
Paloma Contreras Lomas
El Más Allá Mexicano (Still)
HD Video
8 minutes
2020
Paloma Contreras Lomas
El Más Allá Mexicano
Digital photography
Variable Dimensions
2020
Paloma Contreras Lomas
El monte
Hat lined with velvet, wool, plush and plastic
9.8 x 47.2 x 47.2 inches
2019
Paloma Contreras Lomas
La vida secreta de los perros (Still)
HD Video
6:05 minutes
2018
Paloma Contreras Lomas
La fiebre de oro (Still)
HD Video
2016
Exhibitions at Pequod
Paloma Contreras Lomas
The Marshland of Souls
07/18/2020 - 09/05/2020
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Sombras nada más (Espíritu TV)
11/11/2023 - 20/01/2024
Related Content
20/3/2024
THE FORENSIC ARCHIVE OF LANDSCAPES: Paloma Contreras in conversation with curator Carrie Dedon at the Seattle Museum of Art
2/3/2024
Paloma Contreras Lomas along with Ines Doujak inaugurates cycle of exhibitions at CARA NYC
8/2/2024
Cristóbal Gracia and Roselin Rodríguez revisit Biquini Wax in conversation with Ayarkut
15/1/2024
Paloma Contreras in conversation with Pata de Mono - GHOSTS, SPECTRES AND LANDSCAPE
27/12/2023
Paloma Contreras in Art Net, 7 Artists Poised to Break Out in 2024
30/11/2023
Paloma Contreras Lomas (individually and as part of Biquini Wax) + Cristóbal Gracia (as part of Biquini Wax) at the Museo Universitario del Chopo
2/11/2023
Paloma Contreras Lomas joins the Museo Tamayo's Collection
7/10/2023
Paloma Contreras Lomas presents "Gold Fever" at Blackwood Gallery
2/9/2023
Paloma Contreras Lomas in Mendes Wood DM
18/8/2023
Plaoma Contreras Lomas in IAGO
29/4/2023
Paloma Contreras Lomas joins the Seattle Art Museum's collection
10/3/2023
Paloma Contreras: Emerging Artist Award CIFO 2020
3/3/2023
Paloma Contreras in Desert X 2023
4/2/2023
Paloma Contreras and Elsa-Louise Manceaux: Cromosoma Cómic or lxs modernxs prometexs
15/12/2022
Todos me amarán: arte de México hoy
19/2/2022
Contreras will participate at a Los Angeles group show
7/12/2021
Paloma Contreras at the Miami Roundup of Ricardo Mor
28/11/2021
Pequod Co. at Art Basel Miami Beach: Interview by Ted Loos
11/11/2021
Gaby Cepeda interviews Contreras about her work during the pandemic
23/10/2021
Contreras presents a solo show at kurimanzutto
23/9/2021
Álvaro Céspedes interviews Contreras Lomas
10/9/2021
Contreras wins Jóvenes Creadores 2021 grant
25/8/2021
Samantha Ozer interviewed Paloma Contreras
16/6/2021
Casa Versalles 2021
25/3/2021
OTRXS MUNDXS: Review by Gaby Cepeda
6/3/2021
ConversationRoom: FIAC and Museo Tamayo
28/11/2020
Museo Tamayo: OTRXS MUNDXS, group show by a generation of young artists
6/11/2020
Review of "Sa La Na A Yuum" at kurimanzutto, by M.S. Yaniz
15/9/2020
Paloma Contreras Talks With i-D on How Her Work Has Been Affected During the Pandemic
4/9/2020
Review of "The Marshland of Souls" by Gaby Cepeda for Art Agenda
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