Venas Abiertas by Rachelle Anayansi Mozman Solano, 2026

100 Limited edition bound artworks with tip-in offset images
Currently available for purchase in the KGP2026 Bundle

Venas Abiertas, a a title based on Eduardo Galeano’s seminal book, The Open Veins of Latin America, based on U.S. imperialism in Latin America and its history of extraction. The photographs give voice to economic and political policy toward Latinx people, the region, and the consequence resulting in waves of immigration to the U.S. The story of my family’s migration from Panamá to the American south in the late 1960’s due to economic need shaped my understanding of this multifaceted history. The U.S. origin story is one that includes an expansive Latino experience whose complexity is largely unknown. 

In Venas Abiertas, photographs are performed for the camera based on texts from literary sources such as Gloria Anzaldúa’s autobiographical reflections in Borderlands/La Frontera, Border Patrol by Mary Kidder Rak, the paradoxical history of nature conservancy supporters and the history of the eugenics movement are examples of texts acted out for the camera.  In making these photographs the impact of policy on both individual and the collective within the U.S., and the greater America’s - an interconnected and bonded history are addressed. The images that result are a recording of moments of empowerment aided by found photographs made into temporary objects, and cuts in paper that take on the look of mappings, that speak to a history that has been too often unseen but in plain sight.

Rachelle Anayansi Mozman Solano is the recipient of a NYFA/NYSCA award in 2025, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Aperture Creator Labs Photo Fund in 2024. She received the Colen Brown Art Prize and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation award in 2022. In 2021 she had a solo exhibition, All These Things I Carry with Me, at South Bend Museum, South Bend, IN. In 2020 Mozman released her monograph, Colonial Echo with Kris Graves Projects. In 2019 she had a solo exhibition, Metamorphosis of Failure at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY. Mozman has been awarded residencies at LMCC workspace, Smack Mellon, Baxter St at CCNY, and Light Work. Mozman was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in 2019, the NYC Film and Media Grant from the Jerome Foundation in 2017 and others. Her work has been published in Aperture, Vogue,Contact Sheet, Presumed Innocence,Exit and numerous other publications.

Mozman is a Fulbright Fellow, and has exhibited at Philosophical Research Society, LA, CPW, NY, The Lumber Room, Portland, OR, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK, El Museo del Barrio, New York, the National Portrait Gallery at Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C, the Americas Society, New York, New York, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, the Chelsea Museum, New York, New York, The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, the Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, New Jersey, Festival de la luz at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina the Instituto Cultural Itau, São Paulo, Brazil, the Friese Museum, Berlin, Germany, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay, Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City, Mexico, Festival Biarritz, Biarritz, France, as well as the IX Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador.

Design by Ben Salesse

9 × 12” digital offset
32 pages, sewn binding
First Edition, limited to 100 copies

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Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Brigham Young University
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