Mariceliz Pagán Gómez is an artist and educator from Puerto Rico whose work explores the connection between biological and artistic processes. She works across printmaking, drawing, and paper sculpture to investigate transformation in the body and nature. Mariceliz earned a BA from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras in 2017 and an MFA in Printmaking with a minor in Ceramics from the University of Iowa in 2023. She has exhibited in Puerto Rico, the U.S., Mexico, and Japan and currently she teaches printmaking and papermaking at La Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño and works from her studio in Carolina.

Artist Statement

Influenced by Susanne K. Langer’s idea of growth gradients, I approach art as a process that mirrors organic development: fluid, unfolding, and responsive. In this way, plasticity and transformation are at the core of my creative process, and I explore these concepts through drawing, printmaking, and paper sculpture. I study morphological structures of the body and natural objects, using them as references to later transform them through these mediums. My recent work reflects on the practices of exhibition and preservation of zoological and botanical
specimens from natural history museums and scientific laboratories, and how these can be redefined in an artistic context.