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Iraida Icaza was born in Panamá
in 1952. She has taken part in group exhibitions at the Rhode Island
School of Design, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panamá, Picture
Photo Space in Osaka, Japan, Women in the Arts in Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C. and the
Recoleta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She represented Panamá in the Havana Biennial in 1986. Icaza’s first individual
exhibition of photographs took place at the Panamanian Institute of
Art in 1978. She has
also had several exhibitions at the Arteconsult Gallery in Panamá.
Icaza exhibited her installation, “Entre-Seres” as a
guest artist at the II Ibero-American Biennial in Lima, Perú in
1999 and then in 2000 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama.
Also, in 2000, at the Museum of Contemporary Art &
Design, in San José, Costa Rica, she held an individual exhibition
entitled “Speculum Naturale”.
In 1998, she won the Special Sculpture Award at the IV Panamá
Art Biennial with “Caja Iluminada #1”, and was invited in 2000
to participate in the Fifth Biennial’s Prizewinners Salon with the
installation, “Mirabilia”. Since 1988, Iraida Icaza has contributed regularly for many
publications, including The New Yorker, The Washington Post
Magazine, Parenting, MIT Technology Review and Scientific American.
Icaza recently completed commissioned projects for
the IVAM in Valencia and the Sir John Soane Museum in London both
related to the exhibition of Linda Karshan.
Icaza’s work is in both private and public collections. She lives and works in New York, London and Panamá.
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