Oral history interview with Karina Aguilera Skvirsky
name: label: Interviewee
content: Skvirsky, Karina
label: Interviewer
content: Espinosa, Fernanda
topic: label: Occupation
content: Video artists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Installation artists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women photographers
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Skvirsky, Karina
label: Interviewer
content: Espinosa, Fernanda
culture: label: Culture
content: Ecuadorian artists
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewee Karina Aguilera Skvirsky (1967-) is an artist with Ecuadorian roots who works in video, photography, and installation to explore questions of diaspora and identity. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Skvirsky is based in New York, New York.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewer Fernanda Espinosa (1985-) is an oral historian based in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items (sound files (7 hrs., 16 min.), digital, wav)
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Recorded on Zoom (videoconferencing software)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2024 June 12-23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.skvirs24
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Karina Aguilera Skvirsky conducted 2024 June 12-23, by Fernanda Espinosa for the Archives of American Art, at Skvirsky's home in Jersey City, New Jersey.­