Héctor Eliazar Ortiz

Héctor Eliazar Ortiz (Santo Domingo 1981) Has undertaken degrees in Engineering Studies (UNPHU) and Photography (EAF, Buenos Aires). He first exhibited his work by participating in the underground artistic movements of Buenos Aires through feminist and LGBTQI collectives. On returning to Santo Domingo, he was awarded an Honorable Mention at the XXVII Santo Domingo Biennial among other awards and recognitions. Since 2015, he settled in Las Terrenas (DR) and began to work with materials from the milieu, incorporating the environment into his work. Nature provides him with structures and metaphors to engage dialogue about masculinity, language and the colonial / decolonial. Photography is a unit in his practice, documentation, sketches, installations, performance and drawings are articulated through the photographic camera.
In 2018 he participated in the 27 Eduardo León Jiménes contest where he won a residency in 2019 at the Memorial Acte Museum of Guadeloupe, that same year he was selected for the Ghetto Biennale in Puerto Principe. In 2020 he was invited to participate in Zona Maco Sur in Mexico and was also an awardee of the Catapult Stay at Home Residency Arts Grant from Kingston Creative, Fresh Milk and the Americans Friends of Jamaica (AFJ) organization.