Maite Iribarren Vázquez

Maite Iribarren Vázquez is an artist based in Brooklyn, where she creates sculptures and interventions that question standardized forms, revealing human gesture, labor and cultural specificity. Drawing from her structural engineering background and upbringing between two diametrically opposed cultures, Iribarren Vázquez’s work responds to the visual homogenization and cultural erasure she has witnessed between these once disparate realities, driven by globalization. She investigates instances where humanity slips into standardized forms. In her practice she uses metals and polymers from mass produced consumer goods and construction materials, combining traditional metal work with artisanal goldsmithing techniques and digital fabrication.

Iribarren Vázquez received a dual bachelor’s degree in fine art and civil engineering from the University of Michigan on a merit-based scholarship in 2020. She completed an apprenticeship with a master goldsmith in 2022 and is currently an MFA candidate and ‘25 Teaching Fellow at Bard College’s Milton Avery School of Art. She is the ‘26 Al Held Foundation Fellow, where she will be exhibiting a solo show in June, a ’27 MASS MoCA Fellow & Resident, and a ‘25 Tallichet Freedman Foundation grant recipient. Exhibitions include solo show “Lo que queda” at El Horno, Pamplona, Spain ’22; duo shows “Amenities” at Foreign & Domestic, NYC ’25 and “In Between a Scaffold and a Bed Frame” at Putty’s Coronation, NYC ’24; and group shows at NADA - Ice Palace Studios, Miami ’25, Weatherproof, Chicago ’25, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin ‘24, Pop Gun, NYC & Miami ‘24, Below Grand Gallery, NYC ’23.