Ana Mosquera (b. 1983, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Miami-based artist working across drawing, textile and installation through acts of translation and reordering, asking what happens when the systems meant to recognize us fail. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, USA (2020) a BArch in Architecture and Urbanism from Universidad Central de Venezuela VZLA (2015) a BFA (Hons) Photography and Media Arts from University of Creative Arts, UK (2005). She is currently a resident at Oolite Arts.

Recent exhibitions include Sites of Self, curated by René Morales, Oolite Arts, Miami (2026); Transit Memory, Amanda Baker Hall, Miami (2026); Carnet to Go, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo (2023); and Tierras Raras (solo), Sala Mendoza, Caracas (2022). She received the Carmen Cordovez Crespo Honorable Mention at the 16th Mendoza Awards (2021) and the National Prize for Young Artists from the Museum of Contemporary Art Zulia, Venezuela (2016).

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Art Statement

I grew up up in a basin valley with the Caribbean anchored just beyond the hills, where the sea arrived as an out of sight force, to orient us historically and materially, like a phantom limb. After leaving my valley, I soon discovered that geography was one of many organizing forces of the world, and so I became interested in how ordering systems worked when administering the architecture of our relations.

In my current body of work, Objects of Devotion, I extract security patterns from the mobility documents I have needed over the past ten years — passports, licenses, visas, notices, and requests. Operating almost like a forger but with the persistence of the devout, I reproduce the state's graphic language, redrawing each pattern and slowly compiling a personal archive, which I use as the source material for my own drawings and installations.

These materials interest me because they present themselves as absolute, and yet their power is contingent. For me, that contingency opens the possibility of stretching the distance between life and authority, revealing the relations that remain beyond the forms that organize them.