Teresa Guadalupe Olds
Bio
Teresa Guadalupe Olds is a multidisciplinary artist born in Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico, and based in New York City. She holds a BFA in Fine Arts with a minor in Art History from The Ringling College of Art and Design and an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons. Rooted in her Mexican heritage and informed by spiritual practice, Teresa blends inner experience with outer reality. Known for her vibrant palette and layered compositions, her work collapses boundaries between the visible and unseen, offering encounters with thresholds of change. Teresa's work has been exhibited in Florida, New York City, and Mexico.
Artist statement
Vulnerability is foundational to my practice and I am drawn to the question of what it means to be truly seen, by both ourselves and others. While this exposure can be uncomfortable, I believe it has the power to connect and heal.
My work exists at the intersection of memory, transformation, and spiritual inquiry. Rooted in personal experience and perception, my paintings translate vulnerability into immersive environments.
These works are born from moments of profound change: surviving cancer, undergoing a transformative spiritual retreat in Mexico, and navigating the loss of my father.
My practice is an act of radical honesty, reclaiming hidden parts of myself and offering spaces for communion with the unseen. At the heart of my process is also personal mythology: reframing lived experiences, even painful ones, through a mythic lens that transforms them into narrative cycles of meaning, renewal, and growth. This reframing allows me to process trauma as part of an ongoing journey, expanding beyond the rigid, western frameworks of the systems we inherit.
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Education
BFA Ringling College of Art and Design 2019-2023
MFA Parsons School of Design 2023-2025
Group Exhibitions
2025 Escapism, 43-45 40th St, New York City
2025 Interwoven Landscapes, 44-02 23rd St, #321, New York City
2025 Re: Turning, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, 66 5th Ave, New York City
2024 Pop Up, 25E Gallery, 25 E 13th st, New York City
2023 Metamorphosis, 25E Gallery, 25 E 13th st, New York City
2022 Fresco Fashion Show, The Ringling Museum, Florida
2022 Pop Up Show, Philippi Crest Community Club, Sarasota, Florida
2022 Borderline, Savage Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2022 Carpe Diem, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2022 Unseen Healing, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2022 Avante Garde, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
2021 Summer’s End, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2015 Dia De Arte, Museo De La Cultura Maya, Chetumal, MX
@Dreamscape214 - T.dreamscape214@gmail.com