Cristina Velasquez

Cristina Velásquez (b. Colombia) is an artist and publisher based between Austin and Bogotá. She received an MFA from the Bard College–International Center of Photography program in New York City in 2017. Velásquez’s work has been exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée, the ICP Museum, ArtBo, MoMA PS1, the Houston Center for Photography, among others, and is held in both private and public collections.

Her photobooks have been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Research Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, ICP, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and George Washington University, among others.

Recent awards and residencies include the Lucie Scholarship Prize (2025), Yaddo Residency (2025), the Dust Collective Prize (2025), the Ramona Residency (2025), ReGeneration4 at the Musée de l’Elysée (2020), Light Work (2019), the Carol Crow Fellowship (2019), and the Kris Graves Projects LOST II Book Prize (2019).

Velásquez is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of New Poetics Publishing, an independent press that collaborates with emerging artists on contemporary and experimental approaches to photography in book form. She is also the art director at Paisajes Coloniales. Velásquez is represented by Assembly Gallery.