Ana Mosquera (b. 1983, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Miami-based artist working across drawing, textile and installation through acts of translation and reordering, trying to understand 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

Growing up in a valley, with the Caribbean anchored just beyond the hills, was the accident that handed me the image of a phantom sea: an invisible force that marked the geographical north and oriented us historically and materially. When I left my valley, the sea remained as a syndrome, and I discovered that geography was only one of the forces that organize life. From there I became interested in the systems that administer the architecture of relations.

In my current body of work, Objects of Devotion, I explore the idea of legibility by extracting 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 a devotee, I draw and reproduce the state’s graphic language to compile a personal archive, which I then use as the source material for my own drawings and installations.

These materials interest me because they present themselves as absolute, and yet the power that licenses them is contingent. That contingency allows me to consider the distance between life and authority, and the relations that remain beyond the forms that organize them.