Born and raised in New York City, I work between Brooklyn and Panamá. Starting often from my family history, and biography, I am driven by the multiplicity and intersecting history of the Americas. By understanding the impact of colonization and white supremacy on my own family, my work probes the psychic effects and emotional inheritance that are its consequence. My still and moving images connect history to our present; motivated by stories told, and those hidden, reinforced by structures of power - including the internalized kind. My art is informed by my clinical work in psychoanalysis. It is a consequence of my family history that psychoanalysis found me, the need for words and a singular reality, an attempt to give voice to what is often too deep for words.
Recent projects include, Birth of a Psyche, a project about the relationship of the early settlers in Plymouth, Massachusetts to our nation’s origin story, mythology and the narratives we believe. Venas Abiertas, a group of photographs that give voice to the complex, and painful story of US policy in Central America, the border and policy towards Latinx living within the US.. All These Things I Carry With Me, an experimental narrative film based on transcribed interviews of my mother, and her experience of immigration. Opaque Mirror, a re-interpreting of Paul Gauguin’s work in Tahiti that imagines the work he may have made in Panama. Casa de Mujeres and La Negra, a group of photographs that cast my mother embodying the oral stories told to me, about the women of our family and the experience of immigrating to the United States.
Bio:
Mozman is the recipient of the Colen Brown Art Prize and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation award. In 2021 she had a solo exhibition, All These Things I Carry with Me, at South Bend Museum, South Bend, IN. In 2020 Mozman released her monograph, Colonial Echo with Kris Graves Projects. In 2019 she had a solo exhibition, Metamorphosis of Failure at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY. Mozman has been awarded residencies at LMCC workspace, Smack Mellon, Baxter St at CCNY, and Light Work. Mozman has been awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, the NYC Film and Media Grant from the Jerome Foundation and others. Her work has been published in Aperture, Vogue, Contact Sheet, Presumed Innocence, Exit and numerous other publications.
Mozman is a Fulbright Fellow, and has exhibited at The Lumber Room, Portland, OR, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK, El Museo del Barrio, New York, the National Portrait Gallery at Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C, the Americas Society, New York, New York, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, the Chelsea Museum, New York, New York, The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, the Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, New Jersey, Festival de la luz at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina the Instituto Cultural Itau, São Paulo, Brazil, the Friese Museum, Berlin, Germany, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay, Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City, Mexico, Festival Biarritz, Biarritz, France, as well as the IX Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador.