ABOUT US
We are a community of people connected to the arts – artists, curators, critics, collectors, etc. – from all over the world, with diverse experiences and points of view engaged in critical exchanges.





“Don’t worry about the cool. Be uncool and do!”
Paraphrasing Sol Lewitt to Eva Hesse.


MISSION
To maintain and strengthen our community so that it is increasingly full of exciting opportunities in art and so that exceptionally creative people from different parts of the world feel truly welcomed and can produce and share artistic knowledge in a whole and sustainable way.
VISION
To be the most exciting and solid option for community-based learning and independent engagement with the international contemporary art world.
VALUES
– Intense and intensive production of critical thinking
– Affective, generous, and active listening
– Empowerment and agency
– Enthusiasm, proactivity, and action
– Community-based learning experiences

Uncool Artist promotes circulation opportunities, bonds that expand beyond the platform, and collective support in the management and execution of significant projects while empowering unique individuals.
We aim to produce critical and creative knowledge that seeks to empower subjectivities, create new communities, and transform social structures to be more inclusive, embracing human diversity. Uncool Artist is a result of 20 years of experience in distance education in Brazil that has been applied to contemporary art teaching since 2010. Uncool Artist offers customized remote and in-person learning experiences with the most up-to-date technologies and methodologies to create a prolific environment for its participants.

OUR TEAM

Carol Paz
Founder and executive director
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Carolina Paz
Carolina Paz is an artist and educator whose work explores the dialogues people have in and with social spaces, which she investigates through paintings, videos, objects, and participatory projects. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, in museums, galleries, and residencies such as the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY; RAW POP UP, Miami, FL; Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY; Virgilio Gallery, Baró Gallery, Zipper Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil; Goiania Art Museum, Goiania, Brazil; Cerveira Art Biennial Foundation, Cerveira, Portugal; National Museum Soares dos Reis, Porto, Portugal; Culture Centre Rector Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina; among others. She is the recipient of the Funarte Visual Arts award. Her work is featured in the permanent collections of Rio de Janeiro Museum of Art, Luis Seoane Foundation, the Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art, and the Goiânia Museum of Art.
Carolina is the founder of Uncool Artist, created in Brooklyn in 2018, and the independent art space Coletivo 2e1, established in São Paulo in 2010.
She received a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences in 1999 and a master’s degree in Media and Knowledge in 2003 from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York.

Alexandre Nix
Communication
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Alexandre Nix
Professional screenwriter, writer, multimedia producer and graphic designer. He currently lives and works in New York.

Lorenzo Cervelin
Support and assistance

Thais Ribeiro
Community Connections
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Thais Ribeiro
Thais Ribeiro is an artist born and raised in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. He currently lives and works in São Paulo. Graduated in Fashion Design and post-graduated in Visual Arts with an emphasis on education, she worked for 12 years in the fashion stamping and illustration market. Since 2015, she has been researching textile art and resignifying clothes as a vehicle for education and rescuing women’s relationships with their stories. This research ended up taking her back to her drawing work from the early 2000s, which always observed the transitory in the daily lives of people and places as a narrative line. She works from analog photos from family collections, recreating lost memories and memories in works that mix drawing, painting, and embroidery on paper..
OUR HISTORY
2e1 was established in 2010 by Carolina Paz. It initially offered study groups and mentoring programs for artistic projects. The creation of 2e1 was guided by an idea, a desire to socialize and generate knowledge related to contemporary artistic practices.
In 2012, 2e1 presented its first exhibition and the "Fachada" (Façade) project, in which several artists were able to experiment with their ideas and share their creative processes.

Since 2013, 2e1 has worked with artists, critics, and curators from various cities in Brazil and around the world.
Several special projects were created, such as the artistic residency “Nômade 2e1” (Nomad 2e1) and the international art exchange program “In the care of…” Also in 2013, the in-depth training program in visual arts called “Vitamina” (Vitamin) was initiated, offering courses in Sound Art, Painting, Career Management, Art History, Installation, and Performance.

Photo: Cristina Suzuki, Val Schneider, José Bento Ferreira, Carolina Paz, Renata Huber, Sheila Ortega, and Juvêncio Vilhena on an Adobe Connect meeting in 2014.
Concluded in 2014, the “Vitamina” project was responsible for implementing synchronous and asynchronous distance education tools. These tools made it possible for artists located in different regions of Brazil and worldwide to access the content and discussions generated in the in-person meetings.
Coletivo 2e1 became a network of practice, experimentation, coexistence, and creation of knowledge in visual arts.

Photo: Lara Perl’s open studio invitation at our first studio space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
We moved to New York in 2018. At the time, 2e1 was still a valid format, so we wanted to preserve it. We decided not to adapt it but to keep it as a document, a digital archive, and created Uncool Artist.
Initially, it functioned as a newsletter, a blog, and a YouTube channel. Uncool Artist debuted with an email about letters that featured Sol Lewitt and Eva Hesse in the first week of September 2018.
We offered free classes, organized an artist residency, strengthened connections that we had brought from São Paulo, and began to form a new community.

In early 2019, we launched our first 100% online courses as Uncool Artist: Ser Artista Hoje; Lygia Clark, Uma Poética Viva; Paulo Freire e A Práxis Artística; Escrever É Preciso; A Arte que Fazemos Na América Latina; Espinosa e a Filosofia do Afeto.

In an overwhelming year for all humanity, we sought to become stronger and more united. The number of employees and participants in our projects grew.
We:
- Created our “second home” in Salvador, Brazil
- Offered free training in creative distance learning with the Corpo Ensinante (Teaching Body) course
- Launched our training program in art, ILAP (in Portuguese)
- Launched our first online exhibition space at Clube da Uncool

Now ILAP speaks English and runs in parallel with its Portuguese language version.

For DO write [right] to me, Uncool Artist invited artists from its community (U.S. and Latin America) to think through their artworks about the idea of remote communication, asking questions, proposing action, reflection, and dialogue.
The result was an exhibition that speaks to our time by interrogating wholeness, remoteness, isolation, and the use of technology to maintain human connection, while reviving the Mail Art network that was extremely important during the 60s and 70s in Latin America.
GET INVOLVED
Uncool Artist offers educational programs based on the creation of communities, critical discussions, and professional development for artists, curators, critics, researchers, and educators in contemporary art.
We seek to offer opportunities in art and education in an accessible way to people from various parts of the world.
Our work needs resources to grow and support new creative minds. We seek partnerships to offer scholarships for our programs. If you believe in quality and exciting, consistent, and inclusive arts education, join us!
To learn more about Uncool Artist, our ideas, and projects, contact us at contact@uncoolartist.com.