Nancy Paredes is an artist from Queens, NY working primarily in printmaking and photography. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2015. Raised by Honduran parents, her work reconstructs the memories of her mother’s village into images that universally represent nostalgia and home. By using photography as an image portal and printmaking as a means of manipulation, her images result in a realistic yet imaginary world, revealing the trace of a human hand. In 2019, she was a recipient of the New Work Grant administered by the Queens Council on the Arts. Her grant funded her first solo exhibition “Marbles in the Valley” at the Queens Botanical Garden. In 2020, she was selected as a SU-CASA Artist-in-Residence and ARTWorks Seminar Fellow at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning . She is currently a Printmaking Technician at The Cooper Union School of Art.