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Paulina Ree

B.1981, Quito, EcuadorPaulina Ree is an Oslo-based painter, educator, curator, andresearcher. Born in Ecuador, Ree moved to the United States as ateenager, it was during her time there that she first trained in Art,pursuing her long life passion of learning about painting and arthistory. During her studies in Economics at Boston College, shepursued several electives in Art. Ree envisioned the day that shewould establish an art practice full-time, and this happened in 2020.Her art practice revolves around regular and continuous research, aswell as participating in in-person and online art related workshops.Ree explores drawing, painting in different mediums. Ree’s focuses onportraiture and figurative art. Ree’s interest in female artists fromhistory, as well as on understanding the role of gender inequality andimbalance in the art world is something that she is passionate aboutand for which she regularly holds talks in her atelier. Ree is amember of BKA and NBK, both Norwegian organizations for ProfessionalVisual Artists.To date, Paulina has been awarded a scholarship with the EuropeanCultural Academy, for a Contemporary Art Course in Venice on July2023. She has been longlisted for the VAO22 Artists, UK andInternational Emerging Artists Award, and won a prize when selected asa Finalist in the 8th Edition of the Boynes Artist Award (Young ArtistCategory). Paulina has been a guest on several podcasts, includingNew Visionary Podcast and Colour Me Happy Podcast. Paulina has beenpublished in Artist Talk Magazine and Artists of Today and Tomorrow,Contemporary Art Catalogue, Third Edition, among other publications.

My art speaks to my own past with mental health challenges and healing, also encouraging others to explore the same issues as part of our shared human experience. My focus is on looking at life through the prism of the female experience. I reflect and work towards understanding the complexity of being a human, and I use my art as a way to both explore and provoke contemplation about societal expectations and the quest for self-understanding and acceptance. I am purposefully bringing attention to the people that have been most important in my life in an effort to create a visual history of people that would otherwise be very easily forgotten and at times may seem invisible (particularly women). My work is deeply personal and aims to actively put me at the center of it as the storyteller of lives, my own and that of others. I use music, old photographs and books as my main inspiration. Life for me is like a rokola, an old style jukebox, music always in the background for the highs and lows of life. For the joyous days dancing on the beach as a child with my aunts, great memories filled with laughter and the darker times when pulling myself from depression and learning to navigate life with anxiety.

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