Vanessa Teran Collantes

Vanessa is a multimedia artist from Ecuador. At 19 she began to experiment with photography. In 2012, Vanessa was awarded with the IECE Excellence Scholarship to do a BFA in Photography & Video at the SVA in NYC, which she recently finished. She is interested in notions of belonging, racial identity and territorial conflicts. She uses installation and participatory art to explore past and ongoing history of colonization.