Artist Statement

Ana Vergara is a Colombian-born American artist based in Miami, Florida who fragments and distorts the material culture of the domestic environments and urban landscapes she lives in. Through installations, drawing, and printmaking, her work addresses how immigration and forcefully rapid changes in her community impact her sense of identity and memory. To visually describe this impact, she works in a repetitive fashion while allowing slight shifts within the works' iterations, giving way for loss and changes in information. Her work primarily relies on the fragmentation of imagery and visual identifiers from her personal identity and environment. 

Vergara also creates digital algorithmically-derived works to artificially create generative patterns and landscapes as a way of reconnecting with her past in Colombia. She does this to visually describe the mediated use of technology to reconnect and reconstruct identity. These works consist of recreations of memories and items of cultural importance to Latin Americans. By rearranging and abstracting vernacular iconography, culturally traditional fabrics, and images and architecture of Miami and Colombia, Vergara addresses the altering and misshaping of her identity as an immigrant and a yearning to reconnect. Via working algorithmically, Vergara also calls attention to unwritten social codes yielding a specific amount of outcomes. Following that thought, she attempts to recreate her culture by taking archetypal imagery from Colombia and rearranging or recreating them through digital or physical rules and codes.

Ana Vergara is an alumna of the Yale Norfolk School of Art residency in Norfolk, Connecticut where she attended in 2022 and received her BFA in Visual Arts with a concentration in Drawing from New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida in 2023 where she graduated as the class Co-Valedictorian. She has exhibited in group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States including the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, the Museum of Arts and Sciences, the New World Gallery, the Martin and Pat Center for the Fine Arts, the Koubek Center, and the Yale Norfolk Art Barn Gallery.