Roxana Hartmann 

Visual artist and curator.

Lives and works in New York. Born in Bolivia.

 

Roxana Hartmann earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kansas State University, Manhattan, United States, in 2000. In 2025, she began a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at St. Joseph’s University, Brooklyn, United States.

In 2025, Hartmann was selected for the Artist Residency Program in Painting at the School of Visual Arts, New York. In 2024, she was invited to represent Bolivia at The Venice Biennale, but declined the invitation due to the Bolivian government’s alignment with the Russian Pavilion. In 2018, she completed a residency in contemporary art theory at Uberbau_house, São Paulo, Brazil.

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Hartmann’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Bolivia, Brazil, and the United States. Notable recent presentations include Winter, Ink drawings at CaCa: Cultura, Arte y Contemporaneidad Aplicada, Santa Cruz de la Sierra (2025); Open Studio at School of Visual Arts, New York (2025); Bordando peles. Construindo poéticas, curated by Andrés I. Hernández, at Tote Espaço Cultural, São Paulo (2024); and Presente Eterno, curated by Douglas Rodrigo Rada, at Nube Gallery, Santa Cruz de la Sierra (2023).

Her work has also been included in group exhibitions in Bolivia, France, and the United States. These include Summer Salon, curated by Abbas A. Malakar, at Malenka Room, New York (2025); ¿Mar para Bolivia?, curated by Eduardo Ribera, at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santa Cruz de la Sierra (2018); and ARTE PALABRA at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) (2017).

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As an author, Hartmann published the limited-edition artist book Un Asunto de Vida (2023), and the essay El arte que no vemos y su relación con la sociedad in Percontari No. 19 (2018).

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Her work is held in several public and private collections

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