Carmen PAPALIA

Profile

Born in 1981 in Canada. Lives and works in Vancouver. Graduated with an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University in 2012.
A nonvisual social practice artist with a degenerative blood disease. He uses organizing strategies and improvisation to address his access to public space, art institutions and visual culture. 

Recent exhibitions and activities
2024 "Interdependencies," Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zürich
2023 "Provisional Structures," Vancouver Art Gallery
2022 "In Plain Sight," Wellcome Collection, London
2022 "Walk!," Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
2021 “Making Care," ONKA Gallery, Brighton, UK 

Awards and grants
2016-2024 Recipient of Canada Council for the Arts artists grants
2015-2024 Recipient of British Columbia Council for the Arts artist grants, Canada
2020 Sobey Art Award by the Sobey Art Foundation, Canada 

About works

Papalia’s work, which takes forms ranging from collaborative performance to public intervention, is a response to the failures that he has experienced in the medical system since childhood.