Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky (b. Providence, RI) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice began in photography and grew into video and performance. In 2019, she received a grant from Creative Capital to produce Sacred Geometry, a series of hand-cut photographic collages and How to build a wall and other ruins, a project that includes a multi-channel video installation and live performances. She has exhibited Sacred Geometry in solo exhibitions at Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico and Ponce + Robles Gallery in Madrid, Spain. How to Build a Wall and Other Ruins premiered at the XVth Cuenca Biennial, curated by Blanca de la Torre in December 2021. Other important international exhibitions include her participation in Impermanence, the XIII Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador) curated by Dan Cameron in 2016 and There is always a cup of sea for man to sail, the 29th São Paulo Biennial in Brazil (2010).

Karina Aguiler Skvirsky
Born in 1967

Education
Indiana University, M.F.A., Photography, 1996
Oberlin College, B.A., Spanish Literature, 1990

COLLECTIONS

Whitney Museum of American Art [New York, NY]

Valzuela Foundation [SP]

Otazu Foundation [SP]

Urbes Mutantes: Latin American Photography [Paris, FR]

CBRE Development Corporation [New York, NY]

New York Historical Society [New York, NY]

Samuel Dorsky Museum [New Paltz, NY]

Museum of Modern Art Library [New York, NY]

Brooklyn Museum of Art [Brooklyn, NY]

SFMOMA Library [San Francisco, CA]

New York Public Library [New York, NY]

Art Institute of Chicago [Chicago, IL]

Rhode Island School of Design [Providence, RI]

Indiana University Fine Arts Library [Bloomington, IN]

& private collections

SOLO PROJECTS/SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
– Research Commission, Hispanic Society Museum. [New York, NY]
– Las piedras estan vivas. (The Rocks are Alive.) Ponce + Robles Gallery [Madrid, SP]
– Piedras Vivas. Kronfle, Rodolfo (curator). Proyecto Nasal [Guayaquil, EC]

2021
– Cambiar el verde por azul. De la Torre, Blanca (curator). Bienal de Cuenca XV [Cuenca, EC]
– Proyecto Pinturas Negras. Ratia, Alejandro (curator). Public Art Project [Belchite, SP]
– Life-line, Photoville, Public Art Project in collaboration with Artist Laura Nova, The Clemente [New York, NY]
– Rumi, Solo Project. Roldan, Luis (curator) Pinta Art Fair [Miami, FL]
– Rumi, Talo Gallery [Cuenca, EC]

2020
– Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá, on-line solo project, Valencia, Andrea (curator). Backroom, Museo Rufino Tamayo [Mexico City, MX]
– The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios, Galería Vigil Gonzales [Cusco, PE]
– Geometría Sagrada, solo Booth, Moura, Rodrigo; Temkin, Susanna (curators). Diálogos, On-line Frieze Art Fair. El museo del Barrio [New York, NY]

2019
– Geometría Sagrada/Sacred Geometry, Carreras, Claudí (curator), Museo Amparo [Puebla, MX]
– Geometría Sagrada/Sacred Geometry, Estrada, Pilar (curator). Ponce+ Robles Gallery [Madrid, SP]

2017
– The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios, Gilrain, Kathleen (curator). Smack Mellon Gallery [Brooklyn,NY]
– Folds in the Photograph/Los pliegues en la foto, Kronfle-Chambers, Rodolfo (curator). DPM Gallery [Guayaquil, EC]Drones, Monmouth University Gallery [Monmouth, NJ]

2016
– Impermanence, XIII Cuenca Biennial, Cameron, Dan (curator), Museo Pumapungo [Cuenca, EC] (museum)

2014
– Proposals for an Ecuadorian Pavilion in Venice, Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden Pocket Utopia [New York,NY] Drones, DPM Gallery [Guayaquil, EC]

2013
– Bloomfield Avenue Hotline, a collaborative public art project with Liselot van der Heijden. Bloomfield College & Montclair Museum of Art [Montclair, NJ] (museum)

2012
– Southern Exposure, Kronfle-Chambers, Rodolfo (curator). DPM Gallery [Guayaquil, EC]

2011
– Ask Me: Tell Me, a public art project commissioned by the Laundromat Project [New York, NY]

2010
– There is always a cup of sea for man to sail, the 29th São Paulo Biennial, 2010 dos Anjos, Moacir and Farias, Agnaldo, (chief curators). Carvajal, Rina, Maharaj, Sarat, Martinez, Chus, Hasegawa, Yuko and Alvim, Fernando, (guest curators) [São Paulo, Brazil] (museum)
– Memories of Development, Quijano, Rodrigo (curator). La Ex-Culpable [Lima, Peru]

2006
– Backyards, Heist, Eric (curator). Momenta Art [Brooklyn, NY]

2004
– From the Woolworth, Drawing Room. Jessica Murray Projects [Brooklyn, NY]

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
– NY Latin American Art Triennial. The Clemente [New York, NY]

2021
– Water. Estrada, Pilar (curator). Ponce + Robles Gallery [Madrid, SP]
– “Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present”. Carrera, Eduardo. Sánchez, Jorge (curators) Centre de Arte Contemporaneo [Quito, EC]

2020
– De confines y confinamiento, Cazar, Katya (curator). on-line exhibition, a precursor, XV Cuenca Biennial[Cuenca, EC]
– Sinergia 2.0, Aguirre, Mauricio (curator). Proyecto Nasal [Guayaquil, EC]
– Power of the Feminine: (Re) Interpretadas, Cruzalegui, Pia (curator). Chicago Art Department [Chicago, IL]
– MICA’s Education Development Seminar on-Line Exhibition [Baltimore, MD]
– Lo que dejamos afuera, on-line exhibition, Galería Vigil Gonzales with C.J. Chueca y Natalia Iguñiz [Lima, PE]

2019
– Process, Hayes, Jeffreen (curator). Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College [Ithaca, NY]
– Styling Perspectives, Arnold, Alli (curator). Natman Room, John Jay Sharp Building, BAM [Brooklyn, NY]
– Africamericanos, Carreras, Claudi (curator). Museo Amparo [Puebla, MX] (museum)
– where we came from + where we are going, Kitada, Kimi (curator). Transformer [Washington, DC]

2018
– Africamericanos, Carreras, Claudi (curator). Centro de la imagen [Mexico City, MX] (museum)
– Proyecto N.A.S.A.(L), Aguirre, Mauricio (curator). Galería José Domingo La Mar, Paralel exhibition with the XIV Cuenca Biennial [Cuenca, Ecuador]
– Moving Visuals, Yaron, Dorit (curator). The David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland[College Park, MD]
– Hybrid Topographies, Espinel, Monica (curator). Deutsche Bank [New York, NY]

2017
– Where does the future get made, Lishui Biennial Photography Festival, Lishui Museum of Art [Lishui,China]
– Exquisite Corpse, Ysabel, Pinyol (curator). Mana Contemporary [Miami, FL]
– Almost home: Between Staying and Leaving a Phantom Land, Dror, Slomit (curator). Dorsky Gallery[Queens, NY]
– Hacia donde Olmedo miraba, Estrada, Pilar (curator). Ponce + Robles Gallery [Madrid, Spain]

2016
– Descent, Ickes, Charlotte (curator). Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania[Philadelphia, PA]

2015
– The Daily Grind, Getty, Cassandra (curator). Museum London [London, ON] (museum)
– Contornos: Desenredando el Museo, Carrera, Edu, (curator). Centro de Arte Contemporaneo [Quito, EC]
– Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities, Zimbele, Zeljka and Heath, William (curators). Graffiti Gallery EOOD [Varna, Bulgaria]
– Remnants, Baena, Fernando (curator). Galeria Proceso [Cuenca, Ecuador]
– Story of a Story, Dror, Shlomit (curator). Smack Mellon [Brooklyn, NY]

2014
– Ready or Not 2014, Dror, Shlomit (curator). Newark Museum [Newark, NJ] (museum)
– Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities, Zimbele, Zeljka and Heath, William (curators) [Croatia]
– Becoming Male, Erin Lopez-Riley, (curator). Freedman Gallery Center for the Arts, Albright College [Reading, PA]
– Once Upon A Time, Gugelberger, Rachel (curator). Center for Book Arts [NewYork, NY]

2013
– Souvenir of Ecuador, La Paglia, Federica (curator). El Instítuto Cervantes [Rome, Italy]
– Network of Mutuality: 50 Years Post-Birmingham”, Buck-Coleman, Audra (curator). The Art Gallery,University of Maryland [College Park, MD]
– Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities”, Zimbele, Zeljka (curator). Stephan Stoyanov Gallery [New York,NY]. Karlin Studios [Prague, Czech Republic]

2010
– Playlist, Kronfle-Chambers, Rodolfo and Zapata, Cristóbal (curators). Museo Municipal [Guayaquil,Ecuador] (museum)
– Lush Life, Evans, Franklin and Lopez-Chahoud, Omar (curators). Scaramouche Gallery [New York, NY]
– The Narcissism of Difference, A MICA exhibition conceived by Christopher Whittey and Gerald Ross,Decker Gallery [Baltimore, MD]
– Companion, Jahn, Marisa (curator). EFA Project Space [New York, NY]
– Acting Out, Lopez-Riley, Erin (curator). Bronx River Arts Center (BRAC) [Bronx, NY]
– Recorded Stories, LMAK Projects [New York, NY]

2007
– 50,000 Beds, video art commission, Doyle, Chris (curator). The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum[Ridgefield, CT] (museum)
– Interpreting Utopia, Wallace, Brian and Shanberg, Ariel (curators). Samuel Dorsky Museum [New Paltz, NY] (museum)

2005
– S-Files. Cullen, Deborah and Nieves, Marysol (curators). Biennial exhibition, El museo del barrio [New York, NY] Museum of Art of Puerto Rico [San Juan, PR] (museum)

VIDEO SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES

2021
– How to build a wall and other ruins: paper, Mapping Meaning. Washington College [Chesterton, MD]

2020
– Vote by Mail, part of 100 Years / 100 Women. Commissioned by The Laundromat Project and Park Avenue Armory [New York, NY]
– Vote by Mail, on-line screening. Aurora Picture Show [Houston, TX]
– Gioconda, on-line screening. Gallery400, University of Illinois, Chicago [Chicago, IL]

2019
– How to build a wall and other ruins: Pan de Yuca (Yuca Bread), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space. [New York, NY]
– Female Migrations, Screening and Performance, Se habla español (SHE Collective). La Nacional [New York, NY]

2018
– New Latin Wave, Hermo, Carmen (curator). Brooklyn Bazaar [Brooklyn, NY]
– Powerful Vulnerable, convening, Magsamen, Mary (curator). Aurora Picture Show [Houston, TX]
– Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá/ The Poems my Mother Recited, performance, Countercurrent Festival, University of Houston, Aurora Picture Show [Houston, TX]
– The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios, screenings, Countercurrent Festival, University of Houston, Aurora Picture Show [Houston, TX]
– The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios, video screening and panel discussion with Hayes, Jeffreen & Ickes, Charlotte. In Session, Threewalls [Chicago, IL]

2017
– Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá/ The Poems my Mother Recited, performance, Events for “The Supper Club” exhibition, The 8th Floor [New York, NY]

2016
– Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá/ The Poems my Mother Recited, performance, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia, PA]

2015
– Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá, performance, festival, FAAC [Cuenca, Ecuador]

2014
– Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá, performance, Center for Book Arts [New York, NY]

2013
– Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá, performance, Tertulia for Donceles, Helguera, Pablo (curator) Kent Gallery [New York, NY]

2012
– Time Travels, Performance, Mapping Meaning conference [Capitol Reef, Utah]
– Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá, performance, DPM Gallery [Guayaquil, Ecuador]

2010
– Los poemas que declamaba mi Mamá, performance, Acting Out, Bronx River Arts Center [Bronx, NY]
– Framing the Archive, Platt, Liss (curator). The Factory: Hamilton Media Arts, McMaster University [Hamilton, Canada]

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMS

2024 Sacatar Residency [Bahia, BR]

2023 Fountainhead [Miami, FL]

2022 Villa Bergerie [Huesca, SP]

2015-2016 Back in 5 minutes, El museo del barrio [New York, NY]

2011 Laundromat Project: Create Change Residency, a social practice project [NY/NJ]

2010 MacDowell Artist Colony [Peterborough, NH]

2008 Cuts and Burns Residency, Outpost [New York, NY]

2006 Harvestworks New Work Residency [New York, NY]

2005 Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council [New York, NY].

Institute of Electronic Arts Residency, Alfred University [Alfred, NY]

MacDowell Artist in Residence Program [Peterborough, NH]

Center for Book Arts, Artist in Residence [New York, NY]

2004 Smack Mellon, Artist Studio Program [Brooklyn, NY]

2003 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace, Woolworth Building [New York, NY]

1999-2001 Cyberart Residency, Longwood Arts Project [Bronx, NY]

Banff Centre for the Arts, Sports Residency [Banff, Canada]

Center for Photography at Woodstock [Woodstock, NY]

Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art [Bronx, NY]

FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS

2022
– NYSCA, Film and Media Grant [New York, NY]

2021
– Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Award, Lafayette College [Easton, PA]
– City Artist Corp Grant, NYFA [New York, NY]
– Wave Farm, Transmission Arts Grant [NY]
– Practitioner’s Fellowship, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Brown University [Providence, RI]

2019
– Anonymous Was A Woman [New York, NY]
– Creative Capital, Visual Arts Grant [New York, NY]
– Creative Engagement, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council [New York, NY]
– New York Foundation for the Arts [New York, NY]

2018
– NALAC (National Association Latino Arts & Culture) Visual Arts Grant [San Antonio, TX]

2015
– NYC Film and Media Grant, Jerome Foundation [MN/NY]
– Research/Scholar Fulbright Award to Ecuador “The Perilous Journey of Maria Palacios”  NJSCA (New Jersey State Council on the Arts), Photography Fellowship [NJ]

2013
– Bloomfield Avenue Art Prize, Montclair Art Museum and Bloomfield College [NJ]

2010
– NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts), Film and Electronic Arts Grant [NY]

2006
– Urban Artist Initiative Grant [New York, NY]
– NALAC (National Association of Latino Arts & Culture) Grant [San Antonio, TX].
– Puffin Foundation Grant [Teaneck, NJ]

ARTIST LECTURES & PANELS

2023
– Materia Conference Speaker, Stanford University [Stanford, CA]

2022
– Evergreen Art Lecture Series, Evergreen College [Olympia, WA]
– Tertulia, Hispanic Society Museum. [New York, NY]
– Ecuador, Nueva York and The Art of Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, CLACS at NYU [New York, NY]

2021
– Panel It’s Complicated: Race & Ethnicity in Latin American Art. Cameron, Dan (moderator) with artists Flávio Cerqueira, Adán Vallecillo. Brooklyn Rail [New York, NY]
– Artist Lecture, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Brown University [Providence, RI]
– Artist Lecture, Wellesley College [Wellesley, MA]

2020
– Backroom, Valencia, Andrea (curator + moderator). on-line panel discussion, Museo Rufino Tamayo[Mexico City, MX]
– De confines y confinamiento, Artist Round Table. Cazar, Katya (curator) [Cuenca, EC]
– In Conversation: Susanna Temkin and Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, a part of Diálogos at Frieze NY 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj0nrqkmRcU [New York, NY]
– 5 MAX, on-line Live Panel Discussion with 5 artists. Smack Mellon [Brooklyn, NY]
– Amparo en tu casa, FB Live Artist Talk about Geometría Sagrada, Museo Amparo [Puebla, MX]
– IG Live, Art Chat with Ari Vigil Gonzales about “Lo que dejamos afuera” [Lima, PE]
– IG Live Art Chat with EDS Seminar, MICA [Baltimore, MD]
– “How to build a wall and other ruins”, Bennington College. [Bennington, VT]

2019
– Symposium Panel, “Geomentría Sagrada”, Encuentro, Foto Mexico. [Puebla, MX]
– Artist Lecture, “Geomentría Sagrada”, Biblioteca Universidad de las Artes. [Guayaquil, EC]
– Conference Panel, “The Perilous Journey of Maria Rosa Palacios”, as part of “Making/Writing Artist’s Lives” with Sarah Kanouse and Monika Bravo, College Art Association [New York, NY]
– Studio Visit, Senior Seminar Class, Colombia University [New York, NY]

2018
– Artist Lecture, “The Perilous Journey of Maria Rosa Palacios”, Society for Photographic Education [Philadelphia, PA]
– Panel Discussion with Victor Torres, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee and Curlee Holton (moderator), The David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland [College Park, MD]
– Panel Discussion with Monica Espinel (curator), Nicole Franchy and Carlos Castro, “Hybrid Topographies” Independent Curators International (ICI) [New York, NY]
– Panel Discussion with Regina Agu, Shreerekha Subramanian, Mateo Tannat, “Time Lapse: Uncarcerating the imagination”, Countercurrent18 public talks [Houston, TX]
– Artist Lecture, “The Perilous Journey of Maria Rosa Palacios”, Wellesley College [Wellesley, MA]

2017
– Artist Lecture, “Almost home: Between Staying and Leaving a Phantom Land,” Dorsky Gallery [Long Island City, NY]
– Artist Lecture, Honors College, University of Maryland [College Park, MD]
– Artist Lecture, Drones, Monmouth University [Monmouth, NJ]

2016
– Panel Discussion with Charlotte Ickes, Maren Hassinger, Ava Hassinger: Institute of Contemporary Art(ICA) [Philadelphia, PA]

2014
– Artist in the Galleries: Newark Museum, “Ready or Not” [Newark, NJ]
– Artist Lecture, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo (CAC-LAB) [Quito, Ecuador]
– Academic Lecture, Instituto Superior Tecnológico de Artes del Ecuador ITAE [Guayaquil, Ecuador]
– Panel Discussion: Center for Book Arts, “Once Upon a Time” [New York, NY]

2013
– Artist Lecture, Montclair State University [Montclair, NJ]
– Artist Lecture, State University of New York Albany, [Albany, NY]
– Artist Lecture, “The Network of Mutuality”, University of Maryland [College Park, MD]

2012
– Artist Presentation, “Mapping Meaning 2012.” conference, organized by Krista Caballero and Sylvia Torti[Capital Reef, UT]
– Panel Discussion, “In Conversation: Sharon Butler & Karina Aguilera Skvirsky” organized by Austin Thomas, Heiner Contemporary [Washington, DC]
– Artist Lecture, “Southern Exposure.” Dossiers, presented at Instituto Superior Tecnológico de Artes del Ecuador (ITAE) [Guayaquil, Ecuador]

2011
– Panel Discussion with Iffil, Sherrilyn, The Narcissism of Difference (exhibition), Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art (MICA) [Baltimore, MD]
– Round Table, as part of “What matters now?” Donnely, Erin and Willis, Deborah moderators, Aperture Foundation [New York, NY]

2010
– Artist Lecture, LMAK Projects, “Recorded Stories.” (exhibition) [New York, NY]
– Artist Lecture, Escuelab, a new media and community arts think tank [Lima, Peru]
– Dossiers (artist lecture), presented at Instituto Superior Tecnológico de Artes del Ecuador (ITAE [Guayaquil, Ecuador]
– Artist Lecture, Parsons School of Design, New School [New York, NY]

PUBLICATIONS/PRESS

2022
– Bienal de Cuenca 2021/22 (16:30 timestamp). RTV España [SP]

2021
– El Peligroso Viaje de María Rosa Palacios. Lucidez [Lima, PE]
– Escribano, Pedro. Karina Skvirsky: “Mi obra es un largo viaje en busqueda de identidad.” La República [Lima, PE]

2020
– La fotografía hibrida para cuestionar desde la raza y el genero. Andrade Gabiño, María José (writer) Lado B. on-line review https://ladobe.com.mx/2020/04/karina-skvirsky-la-fotografia-hibrida-para-cuestionar-desde-la-raza-y-el-genero/ [MX]
– Visita guiada en pixel, ¿un futuro para las galerías en tiempos del coronavirus?. Gutiérrez, Czar, newspaper review. El Comercio [Lima, PE]
– Geometría Sagrada, de Abreu, Tiago (writer). catalogue, Ponce + Robles Gallery [Madrid, SP]

2019
– Carreras, Claudi. “Africamericanos”. Africamericanos (catalogue) [MX]
– Donosa Macaya, Ángeles. “El (des)pliegue de una historia enterrada”. LUR: Investigación imagen política y sociedad. (on-line magazine) [CH]
– “Love First”. HOCTOK, on-line interview [NY, NY]
– Merino, Fernando. “Los muros eventualmente se convierten en ruinas”. newspaper review (in print) El Popular [MX]
– Zambrano Alvarado, Jéssica, “Skvirsky: ¿ Y si construimos el muro con tecnología Inca?, newspaper review (in print) Carton Piedra (El Telégrafo) [EC]
– Carpio, Francisco, “La piel de la memoria”, newspaper review (in print) ABC Cultural [Spain]
– Jenkins, Mark. “In the Galleries: Where we came from”, newspaper review. Washington Post [Washington, DC]
– Carrera, Eduardo.“Prácticas artísticas contemporáneas, cuerpos insubordinados y politicas de autorepresentación”, magazine article (in print) Terremoto [Mexico City, MX]
– “Sala de estar”, Contemporary art in the Americas. Terremoto (on-line) [MX]

2018
– Hope, Eric. “East City Art Reviews: Moving Visuals at the David C. Driskell Center”, newspaper review[Washington, DC]
– “Artistas reflexionan sobre território e identidad em una exposición”, newspaper review [Quito, EC]
– “Horizontes errantes, una mirada a lo pós-colonial”, el telégrafo, newspaper review [Quito, EC]
– Carrera, Eduardo, “Horizontes Errantes”, Revista Artishock, catalogue essay [Santiago, CH]
– Zastudil, Nancy, “Taking it personally: Artists lead the way with poignant, political works at Counter Current”, on-line review. <http://artsandculturetx.com> [Houston, TX]
– Cameron, Dan. XIII BIENAL DE CUENCA, IMPERMANENCIA, “La mutuación del arte en la sociedad materialista”, catalogue [Cuenca, EC]

2017
– Brody, David. “Perilous Journeys: Ron Baron and Karina Aguilera Skvirsky at Smack Mellon”, on-line review <http://artcritical.com> [New York, NY]
– Chiragdin, Neil. “Holding on and letting go of home, at Dorsky, newspaper review. Queens Chronicle[Queens, NY]
– Vozmediano, Elena. “Historias Americanas”, El Mundo, Madrid, newspaper review [Madrid, Spain]
– Díaz-Guardiola, Javier. “Monumento a la cordera”, ABC Cultural, newspaper review [Madrid Spain]
– Merino, Daniela. “La galería dpm y sus artistas”, La Revista Mundo Diners. review in print [Quito,Ecuador]
– ‘“Karina Skvirsky vuelve a graficar sus limites a través de la fotografía”, El Telégrafo, newspaper review [Guayaquil, Ecuador]
– Kronfle, Rodolfo. “Los pliegues en la foto:, Paraleje. on-line journal [Quito, Ecuador]
– Valdez, Ana Rosa. The XIII Cuenca Biennial, Art Nexus Issue 105, review in print Guzman, Ivonne. “Una Bienal y el arte de una ¿generación?, El Comercio, newspaper review [Quito, Ecuador] Redacción Cultura, “La XIII Bienal de Cuenca: transitar por los caminos del arte contemporaneo”, El
– Telégrafo, newspaper review [Guayaquil, Ecuador]-
Plaza, Maria Inés. “Ser y No Ser: XIII Bienal de Cuenca”, El Universo, newspaper review [Guayaquil,Ecuador]

2016
– Ickes, Charlotte. “Descent”, Institute of Contemporary Art, catalogue essay [Philadelphia, PA]
– Kimbal, Whitney and Farley, Michael. “We went to Philly Part 2”, on-line review, http://artfcity.com Sandler, Leah. “Descent at ICA, Artborne Magazine, review in print [Orlando, FL]

2015
– Carrera, Eduardo. “Contornos”, catalogue essay [Quito, Ecuador]
– Baena, Fernando. “Remnants”, catalogue essay [Quito, Ecuador]
– Sutton, Benjamin. “Dissecting and Detecting Stories in Found Objects and Remnants”, on-line review<http://hyperallergic.com>

2014
– Plaza, Maria Ines. “Vista satelital de la ficción: muestra de Karina Skvirsky “The drones” en DPM” Ecuador, on-line review <http://riorevuelto.com>
– Portilla, Angela. “Karina Aguilera muestra sus drones en la galería DPM”, El Telegrafo, newspaper review [Guayaquil, Ecuador]

2013
– Rangel, Gabriela. De Leon, Christina. “Artist Interview & Portfolio”, Review 86: Literature and Arts of the Americas [New York, NY] La Paglia, Federica. “Mas alla de la linea” (“Beyond the Line”), Souvenir de Ecuador, catalogue essay [Rome, IT]
– O’Sullivan, Michael. “Network of Mutuality: 50 years post Birmingham”, The Washington Post, newspaper review [Washington, DC]
– Orton, Madeline. “Public Arts Project Gives Neighboring Towns a Sense of Place”, television interview and newspaper article, NJ Today [NJ]
– Heath, William and Himbele, Zeljka. “Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities”, exhibition essay, Stefan Stoyanov Gallery [New York, NY]
– Marsala, Helga. “Souvenir de Ecuador: Il ritratto di un Paese in forma”, Art Tribune, newspaper review [Rome, IT]

2012
– “El Guayaquil de Karina Skvirsky Aguilera”, Expresiones, newspaper article [Guayaquil, Ecuador]
– Wiesner, Mildred. “Obras muestran relación de artista con Ecuador” newspaper article, El Universo,[Guayaquil, Ecuador]
– Chambers, Rodolfo. “Southern Exposure” catalogue essay, DPM Gallery, [Guayaquil, Ecuador]
– “La biculturalidad de Karina Skvirsky en una muestra fotográfica” newspaper article, El Comercio, [Quito, Ecuador]

2011
– Riley-Lopez, Erin. “Residency Snapshot: A Contemporary Outlook for the Future of Book Arts” Multiple Limited Unique”, Center for Books Arts, 2011. 58+. Print. catalogue essay [New York, NY]
– Wright, Assata. “Airing Laundry: Artist asks residents to recount memories of changing Jersey City landscape” Hudson Reporter, newspaper article [Jersey City, NJ]
– Whiten, Jon. “Jersey City Artist Aguilera Skvirsky’s Public Art Project Uses Downtown’s Lucky Laundromat as Oral-History Hub” newspaper article, Jersey City Independent, [Jersey City]
– Mantilla, Anamaria Garzon. “El fin de la Mirada inocente” Galeria de Arte. , Revista Vanguardia, magazine article [Quito, Ecuador]
– Dawson, Jessica. “Narcissism of Minor Differences’ shows how fast intolerance turns to violence” The Narcissism of Minor Differences, MICA (Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art). The Washington Post newspaper review [Washington, DC]

2010
– “There is always a cup of sea for man to sail” the 29th São Paulo Biennial, 2010, catalogue essay [São  Paulo, Brazil]
– Harris, Jane. “The Lush History of the Lower East Side” news and opinion, Art in America, magazine article Daley, A and S. Swinder. “On Site: New York: Lush Life Exhibitions on Display at 9 Lower East Side Galleries” on line review, <http://artobserved.com>
– Hennig, Samantha. “Artists re-imagine Richard Price’s “Lush Life”: The New Yorker Graphic Novel, The Talk of the Town” The New Yorker, magazine article [New York]

2009
– Kronfle, Rodolfo. “Playlist” Galeria Proceso and Museo Municipal, catalogue essay [Cuenca/Guayaquil, Ecuador]
– “Racism: An American Family Value”, Center for Book Arts, catalogue [New York, NY]

2006
“PRC: The Next 30 Years” Loupe magazine, Photographic Resource Center [Boston MA]
– Gallery Report, Hungry Hyena, Prevailing Climate, Sara Meltzer Gallery, on-line review [New York, NY]
– Himbele, Zeljka. “Tales of Places”, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, exhibition essay
[Annandale on the Hudson, NY]
– “The Art of War”, Dan Bischoff, The Star Ledger, newspaper review (New Jersey)

2005
– Cotter, Holland. “Latino Art, and Beyond Category”, New York Times, newspaper review [New York, NY]
– “S-Files”, Deborah Cullen, Marysol Nieves and Miki Garcia, El Museo del Barrio, catalogue [New York, NY]
– Johnson, Ken. “Capturing a Moment-ito”, New York Times [New York, NY]
– Montagut, Monica. “El Momentito”, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, catalogue essay [Queens, NY]