Patricia Domínguez (b. 1984, Santiago, Chile) is a visionary artist and researcher whose practice explores the entanglements between ethnobotany, technology, Indigenous cosmologies, and systems of care. Her work weaves together installation, video, sculpture, drawing, and spiritual technologies to question colonial and extractivist logics, while proposing pathways toward healing and reconnection with the more-than-human world.

Trained as both an artist and a botanical illustrator, Domínguez holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, an MFA from Hunter College in New York, and a certificate in Botanical Illustration from the New York Botanical Garden. This interdisciplinary background informs her unique approach to art-making, which is at once deeply personal, materially experimental, and politically resonant. She is the founder of Studio Vegetalista, a platform for researching and teaching the relationships between plants, healing, and cultural memory.

Domínguez’s practice frequently draws on Latin American folk healing traditions, Indigenous plant knowledge, and spiritual technologies, which she reconfigures through the lens of contemporary visual culture—combining corporate wellness iconography, digital aesthetics, and ritual objects. Her immersive installations often function like altars or healing devices, offering speculative tools to decolonize the body and imagination.

A 2022 participant in the Simetría residency between CERN (Switzerland) and the Atacama Desert (Chile), Domínguez explored the intersections between quantum physics and ancestral wisdom, deepening her ongoing inquiry into the nature of reality and consciousness. This experience informed her recent works such as Matrix Vegetal (2022) and Tres Lunas más Abajo (2024), where she investigates the possibilities of plant intelligence and interspecies communication through high-definition video and sound.

Her work has been widely exhibited at institutions including Gasworks (London), Gropius Bau (Berlin), the New Museum (New York), Museo del Barrio (New York), the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (Colombia), and Centro Botín (Spain). She is the recipient of awards such as the Botín Foundation Visual Arts Grant (2022) and has been recognized for her contributions to contemporary media art and ecological thought.

Through her richly layered and transformative practice, Patricia Domínguez offers a profound critique of capitalist rationality while imagining forms of healing that cross disciplinary, cultural, and species boundaries. She lives and works in Puchuncaví, Chile.

More about the artist and the artistic practice: https://www.patriciadominguez.cl/