Vanessa Teran
(Ecuador 1991)
Vanessa Terán is an artist, visual anthropologist and educator from Quito. Currently pursuing a PhD in Humanities at Concordia University in Montreal.
She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2017 and earned a Master's in Visual Anthropology from FLACSO in 2022. Her work explores themes of identity, belonging, and territory
email: vanessateranx7@gmail.com
Grants, awards and Fellowships
Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC), Bridging Divides Scholar Exchange at University of Alberta. 2026 (Upcoming)
Mobility Funds for Arts & Culture (IFAIC), to present Sucúa Haven in Spain. 2025
Research Funds for Arts & Culture (IFAIC) for Tierras y Sentidos. 2025
Graduate Fellowship (Doctoral) at Concordia University. 2025
Selected Mellon artist and practitioner Fellow at RITM research center at Yale University. 2023
Summer Fellowship from the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at The New School. 2023
Research Fund to develop thesis project “A matter out of place”by Flacso. 2021.
UNDP 2030 Agenda with Project Ecuador por WhatsApp. 2021
National Geographic Emergency Fund con el colectivo Fluxus Foto. Proyecto: Educación por WhatsApp.2020
Beca Flacso para cursar maestría de Antropología Visual. 2019
Selected to be part of 20F, Bolivia 2018.
Excelence Award, "My Black is Beautiful" in NY Community Video Contest. Certificate by the Office of Community Schools and MOMI. 2018
Citizens Committee Neighborhood Grant, Runa Ñawi 2 , Bronx. 2018
More Art's Research Grant. Fund granted to develop "Runa Kuyun" photo serie and "Runa Ñawi", a visual laboratory and Andean cosmology workshops developed with the Kichwa and Andean immigrant community and diaspora in NYC. 2018
Runa Kuyuyn, selected for the New York Times Portafolio Review 2018.
Brian Weil Memorial Fund by SVA, 2017
Fellow of the Engaging Artist Residency at More Art, 2017
Shortlisted for Art Works, Emerging Lens Mentorship Program, 2017.
Finalist for the Award "Fotoperiodismo por la Paz “Juan Antonio Serrano”, 2017 Ecuador
Selected for the Mentor Program. Mentored by Stacey Clarkson, Harpers. 2016
SVA Hub Scholarship recipient 2014
SVA Photography Department Scholarship recipient 2014
IECE Excellence Scholarship 2013-2017
·Exhibitions & Screenings
2025 Sucúa Haven – Installation, University Biennial of Multimedia Art (BUAM): Reimagined Territories: Technologies, Conjectures, and Fictions, group show, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, EC
2025 Sucúa Haven – Storytime Performance, La Línea Imaginaria Festival, Madrid, Spain
2025 Sucúa Haven – Installation, A Bordo group show, Fly Gallery, Cuenca, EC
2025 Sucúa Haven – Storytime Performance, Municipality of Sucúa, EC
2024 Sucúa Haven – Storytime, “It Feels Like Yesterday”: 25 Years of Migration Studies in Ecuador Seminar, Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences (FLACSO), Quito, EC
2023 Aequatorial – Sucúa Haven (Solo), Yale RITM Center, New Haven, CT
2023 Trabajos en Proceso (Solo), Espacio Mutante Gallery, Quito
2020 Runa Llakta Llakta Illakuna (Human Land, No States) included in Native Cinema Showcased organized by The Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian (NMAI)
2019 part of New Works in Practice curated by More Art.
2018 "Localidades", Group Show at Universidad Andina, Ecuador. Exhibiting Runa Kuyun. Ecuador
2018, "My Black is Beautiful" Screened at Museum of the Moving Image. U.S
2018, "Indian Winter Screened at EDOC festival. Ecuador
2018 "Miradas Pendientes" Group Show, Museo de la Ciudad. Ecuador
2018 One Year of Resistance at Untitled Space. U.S
2017 t I am also We : The common consciousness of decolonial Art, Flux Factory. U.S
2017. The Border Crossing’s Origin Festival in London.UK
2017: Closing Weekend- Gesture & Juncture at Sideshow Gallery. Hosted by Queens College, CUNY MFA ,
2017: Kanahus Manuel on Today’s Warrior Society at E-flux .U.S
"All My Relations" screening in Dawawine. Beirut, Jan 2017. Lebanon
2017 Becoming Shades, Group Show at SVA Flatiron Gallery . U.S
2017 Mentor Show, Group Show at SVA Chelsea Gallery. U.S
2016 Veterans and Media Activists Report Back From Standing Rock - Deep Dish TV. U.S
2016: Indian Winter: Report from the Standing Rock Occupation hosted by BFA Photo and Video department and MFA Art Writing and the School of Visual Arts. U.S
Articles & Publications
Editora de la galeria colectiva “A dos años de la pandemia” en GK.2022
Downfall- La Gasca en GK. 2022
El regreso de Ucrania en GK 2022
Una familia perdida en el desierto en GK.2021
Tiempos de pandemia: cómo es el acceso a la educación en Ecuador mientras el COVID-19 afecta a la región con Fluxus Foto en Natgeo Latam
"El Kapak Raymi tambien es un Migrante" published by La Barra EspaciadoraKapak Raymi, Indigeneity & migration. Documentary Photography and self representation at Kichwa Hatari Radio.
Itinerario de Tigres, Text by Cristina Burneo, published in La Barra Espaciador and Lundi magazine.
Mitakuye Oyasin, Standing Rock. Archive Magazine
Standing Rock, la gran pregunta published by La Barra Espaciadora
"Standing Rock, the story of a heroic resistance" published by Roar Magazine
All my Relations published by Mask Magazine
"Standing Rock, una resistencia histórica" Revista Alexia, Spain, Dec 2016 & Littoral, France Feb 2017.
"Woman's March", published by gkillcity. Washington,
"Varanasi" published by gkillcity.
Contact
vanessateranx7@gmail.com
