Ada del Pilar Ortiz
Barranquitas, Puerto Rico b. 1995
Bio
Ada del Pilar Ortiz received her bachelor's degree with a concentration in Painting at the School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico in 2018. Her work has been presented in various spaces such as the Arsenal de la Puntilla ICP Museum, KM 0.2, Liga de Arte de San Juan, Área: Lugar de Proyectos, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico and the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center in New York. She has participated in residencies including Área: Residency Program (2019), “La Práctica” at Beta Local (2019), and will soon be participating in The Studios at MASS MoCA, Puerto Rican Artist Fellowship residency (2022). She recently completed an artistic commission for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico under the “MAC en el Barrio '' program titled “Treinta años en un día” (Thirty years in one day), a community based site-specific installation . Her work has been supported by the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. Ada currently lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Artist Statement
My work interacts with multiple mediums that explore issues about the architectural condition, the meaning of home, the remnants of built space and its relationship with memory. I approach processes that allow me to rematerialize the experiences we have with places and objects that testify political, social, economical and domestic transformations of the built environment and how they influence us. I look for how these concepts shape us in the place we inhabit from its physicality and the one that resides in us from memory as a phenomenon that shapes our history, establishing a link between the reality of a place and the imagined one while focusing on concrete and ambiguous issues that determine our remembrance