Paloma Contreras Lomas

Paloma Contreras Lomas is an artist based in Mexico whose multidisciplinary practice explores Latin American science fiction, landscape, terror, political satire and “the bad taste of the Mexican Middle Class.” Contreras Lomas’s commission for Gasworks will comprise an ‘installation-underworld’ inspired by the Antigone’s of Latin America. The Lead Supporter for Paloma Contreras Lomas\'s exhibition is Prue MacLeod, with additional support from Fundación Ama Amoedo. Gasworks’ Exhibitions programme is supported by Gasworks Exhibitions Supporters and public funding from Arts Council England. -- Paloma Contreras Lomas graduated from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, La Esmeralda in 2015. She subsequently joined the multidisciplinary collective Biquini Wax EPS (2015-2021). Between 2016 and 2018 she participated in the SOMA Educational Program. Paloma’s work has been shown at Palais de Tokyo, FRAC Centre Orléans and Museo Tamayo. She has been a recipient of scholarships from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in the Young Creators (FONCA), the Prince Next Generation Grantee Scholarship scheme and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. Paloma is represented by Pequod Co gallery in Mexico.