Guiselt Thaiz
Guiselt Thaiz
Ghost Bitch
The Good Sister
Forest at Night
Cut Off
Blind Frequencies
Eye of the Crab
Jay Chews Her Gum
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Ghost Bitch, 2025Steel
Ghost Bitch II, 2025Steel, 20 × 20 cm
Ghost Bitch I, 2025Steel, 25 × 20 cm
Ghost Bitch III, 2025Steel, 25 × 20 cm
Ghost Bitch IV, 2025Steel, 20 × 20 cm
Ghost Bitch VI, 2025Steel, 25 × 30 cm
Ghost Bitch VII, 2025Steel, 25 × 30 cm
Ghost Bitch VIII, 2025Steel, 25 × 20 cm
Ghost Bitch IX, 2025Steel, 25 × 20 cm
Ghost Bitch X, 2025Steel, 25 × 30 cm

Ghost Bitch is a series shaped through direct confrontation with metal. Each sheet is worked by repeated strikes of tools, leaving dents, folds, and scars that testify to the intensity of the encounter. The surface shifts between hardness and vulnerability, and as light moves across it, the work changes, becoming a different piece in each moment. This transformation gives a sense of temporality, as if the scars could disappear or reveal new ones. The process is not about control but about dialogue with resistance; the force of the blow, the yielding of matter, the trace that remains. In this exchange, the material itself becomes voice and body, carrying memory of impact. What emerges are forms that stand both strong, sensitive and defiant, where every mark is evidence of time, endurance, and transformation.

Two Vailed Figures, 2025Ceramic, 20 × 12 × 2 cm
Two Vailed Figures, 2025Ceramic, 20 × 12 × 2 cm
Little Mascaron, 2025Ceramic, human hair, 10 × 10 cm

Mascaron — a face mask that adorns a non anthropomorphic structure, such as architecture, clothing, furniture, or a beehive — is endowed with magical powers to ward off evil spirits.

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Cut Off 01, 2025Self made pigments, gold leaf, spirulina, pastels on canvas. 28 × 35 cm
Cut Off 07, 2025Self made pigments, gold leaf, spirulina, pastels on canvas. 28 × 35 cm
Cut Off 08, 2025Self made pigments, gold leaf, spirulina, pastels on canvas. 28 × 35 cm
Cut Off 10, 2025Self made pigments, gold leaf, spirulina, pastels on canvas. 28 × 35 cm
Cut Off, 2025Self made pigments, gold leaf, spirulina, pastels on canvas. 28 × 35 cm
Cut Off 02, 2025Self made pigments, gold leaf, spirulina, pastels on canvas. 28 × 35 cm
Cut Off 03, 2025Self made pigments, gold leaf, spirulina, pastels on canvas. 28 × 35 cm
Cut Off 04, 2025Self made pigments, gold leaf, spirulina, pastels on canvas. 28 × 35 cm

Cut Off comes from an experimental and physical engagement with natural materials collected during the artist's process of immigration and search for new homes. Through this process, the paintings hold memories of the homeland of her childhood. Originally conceived as one large-scale painting, the work was later cut into twelve pieces, becoming what is now known as The Cut Off Series. The act of cutting reflects ideas of separation, displacement, and reconstruction. She paints on unprimed sailcloth laid directly on the floor, using self-made pigments from soils collected in different places, including Cap Canaille in Cassis, France, and Grünewald in Berlin, alongside spirulina, red cabbage, and shell dust. Working with natural and locally sourced materials, her practice stays closely connected to the textures and transformations of the natural world while maintaining a minimal environmental impact. Her palette recalls the shifting tones of the Caribbean Sea, mixed with the landscapes of the Dominican Republic, where she grew up, and the German forests where she has lived for over a decade. Rooted in nature, her work explores ideas of home, migration, memory, and sustainable ways of making art.

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Blind Frequency #1, 2025Pigments, pastel on paper
Blind Frequency #2, 2025Pigments, pastel on paper, 113 × 115 cm
Cap Canaille, 2025Soil, pastels, pigments on raw canvas, 80 × 60 cm
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Good Sister, 2024Pigments on canvas, 150 × 200 cm
Before the Fire, 2023Pigments on canvas, 110 × 130 cm
Housed Unconscious, 2024Pigments on canvas, 86 × 170 cm
Children's Milk, 2023Pigments, plaster on canvas, 130 × 165 cm
She Wolf, 2023Pigments, plaster on canvas. 160 cm × 180 cm
Mother Peach Goes on Dates, 2023Gouache, airbrush on canvas, 80 × 100 cm
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Forest at Night, 2021 — Installation ViewIncludes: Metal, ceramics, paintings and photography
Forest at Night, 2021 — Installation ViewIncludes: Metal, ceramics, paintings and photography
The Eye of the Magician, 2021Oil paint over paper mounted on board, 220 × 200 cm
Crying Tree, 2021Glazed ceramic, metal
Trees That Swirl, 2021Glazed ceramic, metal, 60 × 120 × 60 cm
Trees That Swirl, 2021Glazed ceramic, metal, 60 × 120 × 60 cm
Trees That Swirl, 2021Glazed ceramic, metal
Handless Maiden, 2021Glazed ceramic, metal, 28 × 170 × 40 cm
Mushroom Coral Vase, 2021Glazed ceramic, 40 × 35 cm
Alien's Egg, 2021Glazed ceramic, 50 × 53 × 54 cm

Forest at Night is a multi-disciplinary installation that includes paintings, sculptures and poetry encased by a vivid blue wall paint, nostalgic of the facades of Caribbean houses of her youth. Captivated by the twisting forms of the trees and their resemblance to the human body, Thaiz explores the relationship between humankind and nature, including the Anthropocene, mythology, fairy tales, spirituality, and the nature of womanhood; themes still present in her work today.

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Eye of the Crab, 2020Acrylic on canvas, 135 × 160 cm
Flowers are not Romance, 2022Oil on canvas, 160 × 140 cm
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Jay Chews Her Gum, 2015Bubble gum over metal chair, 90 × 40 × 50 cm

Guiselt Thaiz
'At work', 2018. Inkjet on paper. 50 cm × 40 cm.

Born in NYC, grew up in Dominican Republic.
Lives between NYC & Berlin.

Education

2021Master's & Bachelor's degree, Fine Arts
Painting, Sculpture, Contemporary Media
University of Arts Berlin (UdK), Germany.
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2010The New York Art Student League, Drawing
New York, United States.
2005Bachelor's of Arts, Visual Communication
Altos de Chavón School of Design
Dominican Republic.

Exhibitions

2025'Now or Never' Exhibition, Limited Girl Berlin.
2024'Sweet Spot' Exhibition, Galerie Met, Berlin.
2023Graphic Discontent, Acud Macht Neu, Berlin.
2022Positions Art Fair, Maus Contemporary Gallery, Berlin.
2022'Pretty in Pink' group Exhibition, Schau Fenster Gallery, Berlin.
2021Haus am Kleistpark, The President's Fine Arts Award, Exhibition, Berlin.
2021'It's Only the End' Exhibition, Kühlhaus, Berlin.
2021UdK — Rundgang Exhibition, Berlin.
2021'Online Art Auction', group Exhibition, Weserhalle Gallery, Berlin.
2020'Online Art Auction', group Exhibition, Weserhalle Gallery, Berlin.
2019'Online Art Auction', group Exhibition, Weserhalle Gallery, Berlin.
2019UdK — Rundgang Exhibition, Berlin.
2018'Frozen Moments' group Exhibition, Museum Sayn, Sayn, Germany.
2018'West Germany', group Exhibition, Berlin.
2018'Weserhalle 1st Spring Auction', group Exhibition, Weserhalle Galerie, Berlin.
2017'Rundgang UdK' group Exhibition, Universität der Kunst Berlin.
2016'Rundgang UdK' group Exhibition, Universität der Kunst Berlin.
2015Lemonade Stand, Exhibition, New York, NY.
2014'Salonukah' group Exhibition, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2014'Live Free or Die', solo Exhibition, La Alpargateria Art Space, Dominican Republic.
2014Experior: 'Try, Test, Experience', group Exhibition, Rosa Gitana Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2013'Seeking Space', group Exhibition, Art in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.
2013'Portraits', Solo Show, 192 Mott St., NY.
2013Raw Artist Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY.
2012The Reading Project, NY — selection of short stories.

Features

2013Towheads film, Shannon Plums — Premiere screening at MoMA, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, NYC.

Grants

2022Stiftung Kunstfonds.

Prizes

2021Preis des Präsidenten der UdK Berlin.

Publications

2024Artsy.net, Marketplace, USA.
2024Artrabbit.com, USA.
2024VisitBerlin, Berlin.
2024Cilens, China.
2021Tagesspiegel Newspaper, Art & Culture section, front page article, Germany.
2018'Season Five' — An Assortment of Contributions on Themes of Land, Art, and Commons.
2012'The Reading Project', NY — selection of short stories.

Residencies

2018Nuance, Museum Sayn, Sayn, Germany.
guiselt.thaiz@gmail.com @guiseltthaiz
Bird me, 2020. Inkjet on paper. 50 cm × 40 cm.