Izzy Paez
payasito con gaseosa
(Clown with fizzy drink)

Izzy Paez is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist whose work draws on childhood memories of growing up in Mexico. Influenced by folkloric cautionary tales like El Cucuy and stories exchanged between children, Paez explores memory, dreams, femininity, and the subconscious.

Using painting, illustration, and sculpture, she builds fantastical, nocturnal worlds rich with saturated colour, anthropomorphic figures, and woman-centered protagonists. Her work revisits Latin American lore—such as La Llorona, Brujas, and La Siguanaba—to question inherited narratives and machismo portrayals of women, reclaiming their complexity and power.