Nancy Paredes (b. 1993) is an artist currently based in The Bronx, NY, working in printmaking, photography, collage, & drawing. Raised in Queens, NY 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. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2015. 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. Nancy has participated as a ARTWorks Seminar Fellow at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, ChaNorth Artist Residency, VCCA’s Mt. San Angelo Artist Residency, Shared Dialogue, Shared Space with Korea Art Forum, and as an artist in residence at Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus (Germany). She is currently the Education & Residency Coordinator at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.