Gallery open by advance appointment
Gallery open by advance appointment

Jovencio de la Paz

"My practice endeavors to locate the boundless moment in which the diverse material realities of daily life reveal a profound relationship to metaphysical, ineffable and transformative experiences." 

Jovencio de la Paz is an artist and educator whose installations, performances and site-specific gestures have been exhibited most recently at the HOLDING Contemporary in Portland, Oregon; Russo Lee Gallery Project Space in Portland, Oregon; Ditch Projects in Springfield, OR; The Alice in Seattle, WA; SPACE Gallery in Portland, ME; Carl & Sloan Contemporary in Portland, OR; 4th Ward Projects in Chicago, IL; Three-walls. Chicago, Illinois; and Chicago Artists' Coalition in Chicago, Illinois. His works have been also exhibited both nationally and internationally at Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon; the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and The Uri Gallery in Seoul, South Korea. 

Jovencio de la Paz is an Assistant Professor & Head of Fibers at the University of Oregon (College of Design, School of Art & Design, Department of Art) in Eugene, Oregon. De la Paz is also co-founder of Craft Mystery Cult.  

(Updated in 2022)

BOLT Residency

2013 - 2014,
Artist Resident