Violeta Paez Armando is a multidisciplinary Amsterdam-based Argentinian artist working with sculpture and writing. Using elements such as resin, wax, metal and found industrial objects, their practice is, at its core, a form of material world-building.

Strongly influenced by mythology and sci-fi, they revisit the past through a queer lens and construct objects where the “strange” becomes a model to reflect on queer futurity and desire. Within this framework, they explore the transformative potential of monstrosity. The sculptural process embraces the grotesque and the cinematic, drawing from body horror as well as the prosthetic ingenuity of 1980s film prop-making: when the monstrous was sculpted, weighty, and built by hand.

She has presented solo exhibitions, including Pressure (Amsterdam, 2025) and Love revealed at puntWG (2021), as well as the duo show Marine Lover: Wax & Water with Abraham Kritzman at Sally’s Fault (2022). Their work has been exhibited at several cultural institutions, most notably De Appel, Het HEM, Bradwolff Projects, Mite Gallery (Buenos Aires), ASA Studios (Hamburg), and Art Rotterdam’s Prospects (2025). They were the recipient of the Mondriaan Fonds Artist Start grant (2023) and the AFK Project Subsidy (2025), and hold a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University and an MA in Critical Studies from the Sandberg Instituut.