Artist Bio
Victor Saul Urroz Lanzas was born in Tipitapa, Nicaragua; at the age of four, they immigrated to Florida, U.S.A. with their family; where they received their BFA in Studio Art at Florida International University, where they received a fellowship into the Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator, an entrepreneurial incubator centered around helping creative individuals start their businesses. They exhibited at Laundromat Art Space for their senior Thesis show, Peeling the Glass Onion. Victor has been a artist-in-residenc at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts; They are currently an A.I.R at Starworks Ceramics.
Artist Statement
Victor Saul Urroz Lanzas is an interdisciplinary artist whose works delve into processing their self-image and relation to their body. Their figurative work serves as an investigation of form, which are often androgynous, abstract bodies that elude the ever-changing perception of the physical self. They often exaggerate the concept of body dysmorphia; thus, their sculptures are a processing of how both of those factors affect their self-perception and gender identity as a non-binary queer individual. While their installation-based work focuses on capturing the relation between body and mind, and how it feels to live within a body that takes up space. Their work is heavily based on conceptually capturing their self-image through clay sensitivity. It is a powerful reflection of the human body and mind with its ability to remember everything it has been through, becoming a material that encapsulates the trauma the body and mind go through.
Contact
Ceramic SculpturesThe Belly Button Series
Installations/Performances
Reflejos, 2023
Porcelain, terracotta, performance, and video documentation
Dimensions varies
Reflejos is a performance-based work that discusses the struggle of finding identity and fitting into Eurocentric beauty standards..
https://youtu.be/mO_6jCCRqYc?si=OUQ5vnZqoIQcl-sh
Untitled(Self-Portrait), 2023
Porcelain, Celadon Glaze, Rope, and Wood Panel(23.75”x23.75”),
Installation(24”x68”x108”), Swing 1(16”x7”x1”), Swing 2(15”x6.5”x1”)
Untitled (Self-Portrait)is an installation based work that explores my relationship to my body and the clothes that I wear. The work is a conversation with myself about how those two things are in constant confrontation in my mind.
https://www.tumblr.com/victorurr0z/735803813941968896/december-4-2023?source=share
The Hidden Facade of Anxiety, 2024
Porcelain Slip and Person
Dimensions Variabler
The Hidden Facade of Anxiety is a performance based work that explores the mental endurance of repressing emotions until they all explode in a single outburst of physical and emotional discomfort.
https://youtu.be/Zs_ZPUmR3Oo?si=92DpzdlVCFGbuxS6
El Tendedero(2024)
Approximately 80”x100”x20”
Unfired clay, clothes, clothesline, clothespin, rebar, and screws
El Tenededero explores the weight caused by the slip-covered clothes and how that weight affects the clothesline; the piece is a conversation of the weight of one’s own body and the distress it causes on the mind; as the piece dries over time, the piece flakes as the unfired clay drys.
The Space I Use, 2024This work initially started with the idea of bodies as vessels for perception, that being our gaze and the gaze of everyone around us. This work plays with the idea of body dysmorphia and how it can affect our self-perception and our awareness about the space that we use.The pile of ceramic vessels is titled “The Space I Use”; it explores the idea of using more space than we use when we’re being perceived by ourselves and what others think about us. Although there are multiple ceramic vessels, they exist as one entity, a self-reflection of spewing out. Each vessel can be thought of as individual experiences that shape one’s self-perception. The pile also plays with the idea of sensitivity, as it is precarious and could shift depending on the viewers' movements.
Curriculum Vitae
Education2024- Bacholors of Fine Arts Florida International University, Miami, FL
2020 - Associate in Art, Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL
2019- High School Diploma, Hialeah Senior High School, Hialeah, FLResidenciesFall 2024-Starworks Ceramics, NC
Summer 2024-Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, The Color Netwokr: Project-M, MEProfessional ExperienceSpring 2025-Present- Instructor, Anhinga Clay Studio, Miami, FL
Fall 2023-Fall 2024- Ceramic Lab Technician, Gumbo Limbo Pottery, Miami, FL
Summer 2023- Instructor, Ceramic League of Miami, Kendall, FL
Spring 2022- 2024- Ceramic Lab Technician, Florida International University, Miami, FLExhibitions
Summer 2025- Inaugural Collection, ARRAE Gallery, Group Exhibition
Summer 2025-Eso No Se Toca, Supermarket Gallery, La Sala, Hoy Cómo Ayer, GROUP EXHIBITION
Spring 2025-Toy Dispensary Gallery: Community is Everything, Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center(NCECA), GROUP EXHIBITION
Spring 2023- Peeling the Glass Onion, Thesis 2 B.F.A show, Laundromat Art Space, GROUP EXHIBITION
Fall 2023- Within Space, Without Time, Thesis 1 B.F.A show, Florida International University, GROUP EXHIBITION
Fall 2023-Thesis 1 Pop-up Show, Florida International University, POP-UP GROUP EXHIBITION
Fall 2023- Small but Mighty, Up2Someting Studio, POP-UP GROUP EXHIBITION
Spring2022- Made You Look Twice, The Wolfsonian Miami, FL, POP-UP GROUP EXHIBITION
Fall 2021 -Aerial Vision, FIU Wolfsonian, GROUP EXHIBITIONAwards, Grants, and FellowshipsSpring 2025-Coconut Grove Art Festival Emerging Artist
Spring 2024- Awarded the Coconut Grove Arts Festival Visual Arts Scholarship
Fall 2023- Accepted into the Next Generation Program: Coconut Grove Art Festival, Coral Gables, Fl
Fall 2023- Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator Fellowship, Miami, FLPress
Parish, Erin, Review: Ceramics as Cultural Memory at Supermarket Gallery
https://www.artburstmiami.com/blog/cultural-memory-of-ceramics-supermarket-gallery