Rachelle Mozman Solano
Hot birth, cold death #3, 2025
Pigment print
15.5 × 12 inches

Hot death, cold birth are pictures about the psyche, self and historical as buried and reborn enactments. The attention to aliveness of the body as subversive reverberates within the work. Representations of the natural world within the region of American Northeast intersected with equatorial flora, are merged. An enlarged Chestunut tree, the almost extinct species of Northern America, a representation of a female figure as a totem, enlarged Whelk sea shells found along the eastern shore from Florida to Mexico, branches of a Maple tree intersect with an interior space speaking to the layers of the known, the unknown and perceived. These acts are evidence of dimensions and collapsing of existences captured as rituals for the camera.

Rachelle Mozman Solano is the recipient of a NYFA/NYSCA award in 2025, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Aperture Creator Labs Photo Fund in 2024. She received the Colen Brown Art Prize and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation award in 2022. In 2021 she had a solo exhibition, All These Things I Carry with Me, at South Bend Museum, South Bend, IN. In 2020 Mozman released her monograph, Colonial Echo with Kris Graves Projects. In 2019 she had a solo exhibition, Metamorphosis of Failure at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY. Mozman has been awarded residencies at LMCC workspace, Smack Mellon, Baxter St at CCNY, and Light Work. Mozman was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in 2019, the NYC Film and Media Grant from the Jerome Foundation in 2017 and others. Her work has been published in Aperture, Vogue, Contact Sheet, Presumed Innocence, Exit and numerous other publications.

Mozman is a Fulbright Fellow, and has exhibited at Philosophical Research Society, LA, CPW, NY, The Lumber Room, Portland, OR, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK, El Museo del Barrio, New York, the National Portrait Gallery at Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C, the Americas Society, New York, New York, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, the Chelsea Museum, New York, New York, The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, the Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, New Jersey, Festival de la luz at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina the Instituto Cultural Itau, São Paulo, Brazil, the Friese Museum, Berlin, Germany, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay, Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City, Mexico, Festival Biarritz, Biarritz, France, as well as the IX Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador.

https://www.rachellemozman.com/