Guzmán Paz (Montevideo, 1988) develops a practice that explores queer subjectivity through autobiographical narratives shaped by play, fantasy, and desire. His works—situated between painting, object-making, and sculpture—construct cinematic scenes at an intimate scale, where psychic atmospheres unfold through exchanges of gazes, tensions, and relationships between figures.

Drawing from elements of everyday and domestic life, Paz composes staged environments that function as devices of reverie: worlds emerging from the intersection of personal experience and imagination. Within this framework, painting operates both as an affective reference and a site of experimentation, expanded into collage, three-dimensionality, and at times a playful subversion of its own baroque potential.

From early on, the artist has granted the frame a central role as an extension of the work. In his recent production, it becomes an autonomous device: softly colored structures that conceal within them other scenes rendered in vibrant palettes and populated by characters. Each piece thus proposes a dual structure—surface and interior—where appearance gives way to a latent situation. The works open like an entry into intimacy, revealing a hidden dimension that brings together the playful and the uncanny.

Since 2012, he has been a member of the collective Básica TV, alongside Emilio Bianchic and Luciano Demarco, developing videos, photographs, and installations that appropriate formats from mass culture—television, advertising, and music videos—reconfigured through a queer lens using low-tech strategies, handcrafted sets, and post-production effects.

In 2025, he was selected for the FAARA residency (Fundación Ama Amoedo Art Residency) in José Ignacio, Uruguay, marking a key moment in the development of his recent practice. He subsequently participated in Basel Social Club, Switzerland, expanding the international circulation of his work. That same year, he presented the solo exhibition The Yellow Wallpaper, curated by Chus Martínez at Galería Nora Fisch, where he further developed his interest in narrative, interiority, and exhibition devices.

Since 2015, he has exhibited at institutions such as Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2022), Museo Larreta (2021), Para vos Norma Mía (2021), Palais de Tokyo (2018), Fundación HSBC (2017), Centro Cultural Kirchner (2017), Bienal del Pensamiento Paralelo (2017), and Bellos Jueves at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2015), among others.

He studied interior design and is a self-taught visual artist.

He lives and works between Buenos Aires and Uruguay.