BIO

Bio 

Leticia Balzi is an Argentinian artist based in Norway. She is a doctoral candidate in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid. She holds an M.A. in Art Education from New York University (NYU) and an M.F.A. in Artistic Research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She works ad-honorem as World European Councilor for the International Society of Education Through Art (InSEA/UNESCO official partner). She is also a Publication Board member for this organization.

Her artistic research work and publications examine the role of politics in aesthetics, intersectionality, the environment, and critical pedagogy. She works at her studio at Rotvollkunstnerkollektiv in Trondheim and as an arts & design teacher at Fagerhaug International School. As an educator, she uses the arts at school to discuss social and environmental issues and its intersections with culturally relevant pedagogy.

She has participated in several exhibitions and congresses in Norway, Spain, Germany, the US, and Argentina. She was an educator and artist in multiple educational settings and worked as a creative director in advertising in Buenos Aires for over ten years. She was awarded with Fulbright, Erasmus, Kulturrådet Kunstnerstipend, and Namsos stipendiat. 

ART PRAXIS STATEMENT

I work in the field of contemporary art and education, exploring themes such as intersectionality, the environment, and visual culture. My goal is to use art to initiate conversations, promote social inclusion and raise awareness of environmental issues. To achieve this, I utilize visual art, installations, artistic research, and educational methods to address different cultural contexts and personal narratives. My inspiration comes from various sources, including history, affect theories, archive images, territories, and personal and collective experiences. One of my recent projects involved examining the politics of women's body representation in Western visual arts histories, advertising, and video games, using archive images. Through this work, I aim to challenge viewers' assumptions about women throughout history. Currently, I am working on a project that examines how intersectional discrimination has impacted the bodies of students aged fourteen and fifteen. This project takes the form of critical comic zines and explores the historical effects of discrimination on these young individuals from a performative critical auto-ethnographic perspective.