Pamela Solares

Pamela Solares (she/her/hers; b. 1997), also known as Studio Solares, is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on photography, writing, collage, and printmaking. The daughter of Honduran parents, Solares was born and raised in South Florida, where she currently practices. Solares is a cultural worker passionate about making art accessible in education, acquisition, and creation in her community and supporting South Florida-based artists. Solares currently serves as the Norton Museum of Art’s 2023 Sophie Davis Fellow for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access, and has worked for the City of Lake Worth Beach; Hatch 1121; the City of Belle Glade; the NSU Art Museum; and the Boca Raton Museum of Art and Art School.

Solares’ primary medium is photography, which serves as a canvas for her exploration of interpersonal relationships, the degradation of memory, and the passage of time. Solares’ work is a combination of documentary photography, capturing the tenderness and spontaneity of everyday moments; and alternative processes, allowing the manipulation of film and the unpredictability of wet cyanotypes to produce a surreal quality that emphasizes the artist’s presence. The two methods often overlap, unraveling Solares’ consciousness, anxieties, and aspirations. As such, her work is an archive of memories, anxieties, aspirations, relationships, and reflections.