Roxana Barba (Lima, Peru) is a Miami-based artist whose wide-reaching, conceptual and experimental practice spans performance, time-based media and sculptural work. Whether composed as performances, audiovisuals, or two-dimensional images, Barba’s abstractions highlight the limits between the body, materiality, identity and culture, transcending temporal boundaries.
Her work has been presented by Latinx Project at New York University, La Mama-Culture Hub (New York), Koubek Center, Miami Light Project, Perez Art Museum Miami, DORCAM and Alianza Cultural de Miraflores (Lima, Peru), among others. Bodies, technology and myth merged in her most recent performance ‘In my center, a cyborg seed’, which received a 2022 Knight New Work Award and a 2024 NALAC Fund for the Arts.
Barba has also been awarded a 2025 WaveMaker Grant, 2023 South Arts Individual Artist Grant, a 2023 Mentorship Award by the U.S. Latinx Art Forum and a 2019 Knight Arts Challenge.
Barba’s projects are research-driven, and her performances often engage in interdisciplinary collaboration with musicians, dancers, artists and technologists. She is a resident artist at Laundromat Art Space in Little Haiti, Miami.
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