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BIO
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Artist Kazaan Viveiros currently lives and works in Lambertville, NJ. She earned a BA with distinction from the University of Virginia in Studio Art and Religious Studies, and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

 

She has since exhibited work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S. and in Europe, including solo shows in New York, San Francisco, Berkeley, Scottsdale, AZ, Richmond, VA, Savannah, GA, and Rome.

 

Viveiros’s paintings have been collected by a wide array of corporations, including eBay and Capital One Bank, as well as by individuals such as novelist Danielle Steel. Summit Health Cancer Center has a great many of her works in their collection. In addition, five of Viveiros’s paintings were purchased by the Art in Embassies Program and are permanently installed in the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

 

She is a 2022 recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the NJ State Council on the Arts, a 2011 Bethesda Painting Awards semi-finalist, was twice chosen as a visiting artist at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA, and was twice an artist-in-residence at Weir Farm in Wilton, CT. Viveiros was also an artist-in-residence at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Southern California and is a 2015 fellow of the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.

In 2022, she joined with several other women to form the artist collective Steamroller Group.

Kazaan Viveiros in her studio, 2021. Photo by Kevin Blythe.

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