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Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas (they/them) is an artist, educator, and activist living and working on the traditional lands of the Alabama-Coushatta, Caddo, Carrizo/Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo (Austin, TX). 

Barhaugh-Bordas’s practice—spanning print media, installation, and social and collaborative work—explores the intersections of migration, queerness, and ecology. Through a process of thinking-through-making, they investigate how art can foster ecological knowledge and interspecies understanding, beginning with a comparison of “naturalization” stories—becoming local—between Americans and non-native plants.

Barhaugh-Bordas has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Printshop LA Gallery, Handwerker Gallery (Ithaca College, New York), Buffalo Arts Studio, and Sediment Arts (Richmond, VA). Artist residencies include Casa Lü Parque (Mexico City), ACRE (Steuben, Wisconsin), Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY), the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University (New York), MI-Lab (Echizen, Japan), and Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA).