Valeria Tizol Vivas (b.1993, Bayamón, Puerto Rico) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She received an MFA in Sculpture from UCLA and holds a B.EnvD from the School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras. 

Tizol Vivas is an artist and educator whose practice explores how materials, ancient dialects, and time transform and hold knowledge of her and others’ human experiences. Her work alludes to memory, cultural histories, traditions, elemental processes, and architectural sensibilities, all of which are investigated through introspection, material interventions, experimental arrangements, and mark-making techniques. Her hypotheses and observations transfigure the narratives and languages of displacement and marginalization through the instinctual nature and processes of the elements, materials, and forms she communicates with. 

Valeria Tizol Vivas is Faculty of The School of Arts at California Institute of the Arts.