Ana Paula Cordeiro
Pathern, 2009
Letterpress on paper, RC photographs
8 x 24 inches open, 8 x 8 inches closed

A set of 06 poetry broadsides that printed by the artist using various relief techniques

Ana Paula Cordeiro makes books by hand, photographs with film, prints from lead type, and writes either sparingly or profusely on unbound folios, which she then proceeds to bind into volumes. In 2018 she co-organized the multi-media installation Introspective Collective. In 2019 she contributed to a book publication about bookmaking called Bookforms. And in 2020 she was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and an Honorable Mention at the International Human Rights Arts Festival Creators of Justice Award for her essay Citizen.

Originally from Brazil, she is based in Brooklyn and does much of her work at Shoestring Press and The Center for Book Arts communal shops. Chronologically speaking, in the fall of 2020, she had an interview published by The Interior Beauty Salon; in the Summer of 2020, she was part of an online program in conversation with Merve Emre, hosted by the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, and her work Body of Evidence was reviewed on Books on Books. In 2022 she recorded a podcast for Inwood Art Works On Air.

2023 was a year to wrap up a project as Artist Research Fellow at the Hispanic Society of America, with support from NYSCA, and gratefully enjoy the beauty and space of the Arts Center in Governor’s Island residency, with support from LMCC.

In 2024, she had her first solo show in the US at the Gallatin Galleries, and somehow she was awarded The Governor’s Medal of Arts and Culture during the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations. Ana graduated in 2026 as Dean Scholar for the Arts in the MA program at Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at NYU, with a concentration titled ” The Collective Introspective: How Artist’s Book can Sabotage Patriarchy and Colonialism”.

https://anapaulacordeiro.com/