About me

Paloma Ayala, native of Mexico, studied her BFA at the University of Monterrey Mexico, (2002, UdeM). In 2003 she recieved her Professional Teaching Degree (Arte A.C.) and started working as a teacher in several respected schools at her hometown of Monterrey.

She lived in Rochester NY (USA) from 2005-10, teaching and developing her artwork. Paloma is currently living in Wurenlingen, Switzerland, where she actively works with european artists on different projects, and continues to pursue her interest in instructing Visual Arts to children along with communities in need.

She has participated in exhibitions in the U.S. (Buffalo and Rochester), Canada (Quebec), Switzerland (Zurich) and Monterrey, Mexico. In Rochester, she has worked as an artist and art teacher in different institutions (invited artist at City School #12, Brockport Migrant Project, Young Mothers & Interim Health Academy and Memorial Art Gallery), and ran her own children and adult workshops at WPK (Whipple Park, University of Rochester Student Housing).

In Switzerland, she has made connections with artists of diverse media, leading to the participation as an art production assistant in different Performances. She's also working into developing a workshop for Hispanic migrants focused on integration and cultural diversity through craft making.

Her artwork is intended to be intriguing, provoke curiosity, and awake a personal sense of self-consciousness through the continuous study of the human body, which is essential inspiration and appears in almost all series. The images address issues of identity, feminine sexuality and moral, the physicality of the body combined with myths and stories , humanness vs. beast-ness (sources range from porno, dead bodies, family snapshots, animals and nude models).

Late works focus on traditional drawing media, though she is also interested in digital media to continue her figure drawing interests by manipulating photographs of the nude.