Ana Mosquera (b. 1983, Caracas, Venezuela) is a mixed media artist based in Miami, currently a resident at Oolite Arts. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2020 and a BArch from Universidad Central de Venezuela in 2015. Working with ordering systems and digital artifacts, her work moves between translation, re-contextualization, and encounters that refuse to resolve. Her recent exhibitions include Between Here and Elsewhere, Oolite Arts (2025); Carnet to Go at Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo (2023); Tierras Raras (solo) at Sala Mendoza, Caracas (2022); Familiar Distance at Edge Zones, Miami (2021); and ¿Por qué Islas? (solo) at Licencia de Reconocimiento, Tenerife (2021). In 2021, she received the Honorable Mention Carmen Cordovez Crespo by HFFA at the 16th edition of the Mendoza Awards in Venezuela. She was also awarded the 2016 National Prize for Young Artists by the Museum of Contemporary Art Zulia, Venezuela.

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Art Statement

I often think of the sea - vast, shifting, resisting permanence - and wonder why I have always felt anchored to it. Despite growing up surrounded by hills, the ocean, that body of water to the north, marked the rhythm of our lives like a phantom limb. This shaped my interest in place and my questions about territory and cartography, not as fixed realities, but as fragile constructs.

Over time, that phantom sense of direction deepened, as I navigated the paper infrastructure that controls movement and belonging. My work engages with the visual languages of control - the codes, patterns, and formats that determine who is visible and who remains in limbo. Through drawing, installation, and textile, I move between translation, re-contextualization, and encounters that refuse to resolve.

Working with digital artifacts and debris, I appropriate the precision of mapping systems, documentation formats, and territorial control mechanisms. I have translated data into textile surfaces, reinterpreted official imagery, and created encounters with systems designed to fail. Exploring how the same methodical precision that creates bureaucratic barriers can become a method for creating temporary fictions of agency within those same systems.

My installations place viewers in positions familiar to anyone navigating official systems - processing interfaces that malfunction, encountering tools that promise help but deliver confusion, trying to access information that remains perpetually incomplete. These works create encounters with questions of legibility and legitimacy around place-making, and how the technologies used to create clarity around them often create confusion. The resolution, like a phantom sea, remains just beyond reach.