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Roxana Barba (b. 1976, Lima, Peru) is a Miami-based artist, whose research-driven practice incorporates interdisciplinary uses of performance, video and installation. Her recent body of work originates from artistic and bibliographical research into ancestral cosmology from Peru and decolonial observation of the past and future. Barba’s work is often concerned with drawing connections between healing rituals and delicate atmospheres to disarm power structures.

Developed in close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams of artists, her dance performances layer multi-sensory storytelling using video, sound and sculptural objects. They evolve out of speculative fiction and often use poetry as a gesture of denunciation. Her films and installations, at times minimalistic and meditative, excavate the personal and take the form of intimate offerings. 

Her work has been presented by Koubek Center, Miami Light Project, Perez Art Museum and Latinx Project at New York University, among others. She is one of six 2022 Knight Award Winners currently working towards the 2024 premiere of ‘In my center, a cyborg seed,’ an interactive audiovisual performance exploring technology, the future and myth. She recently premiered Apuntes Americanos (2022) at Alianza Cultural de Miraflores (Lima, Peru), and Kanay (2023) at Koubek Center (FL, USA). In 2023, Barba was awarded a South Arts Individual Artist Grant and a Mentorship Award by the U.S. Latinx Art Forum, and in 2019, she received a Knight Arts Challenge Award.

Roxana pursued undergraduate visual arts studies in Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (Lima, Peru) prior to receiving her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts (Miami, Florida). She has been in residency at Cucalorus Film Festival (NC, US), Correlación Contemporánea (Amazon, Peru) and is currently a resident artist at Laundromat Art Space in Little Haiti, Miami.