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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.