Darice Polo

Darice Polo is an Associate Professor in the School of Art, where she has taught drawing and painting since 2004 and serves as the Drawing Program Coordinator. She is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection between personal and collective socio-political experience. Her drawings, paintings, prints and digital films have been exhibited singularly, and in dialogue with one another in a range of national and international venues.

Screenings of her film work were included in the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival at the Museum of the City of New York, the Bronx Screening Series supported by the Bronx Council of the Arts, the Film Diary Festival at the Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn, NY, the 14th A.I.R Biennial at A.I.R Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, the LIFE Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA and in Commons and Commoning at the SEA Foundation in Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Her essay Seeds of Colonialism: Ohio Forces in Puerto Rico was published in Intervenxions, a publication by The Latinx Project at New York University, on July 25, 2022, the anniversary of the United States invasion of Puerto Rico.

She was awarded an Equal Justice artist residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico in 2018, exhibiting and working alongside a breadth of international artists engaged in social practice. As a recipient of a Creative Workforce Fellowship, through the support of Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, she created the community-based project, Seeds of Colonialism, in Cleveland’s Clark Fulton neighborhood. She is also the recipient of a Puffin Foundation Grant in direct support of her film work.

Born in New York City, she received a BFA in Media Arts from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in painting from SUNY, Albany.