September 11, 2025
6 - 8 pm
TILT Artist Lab
Free
The AIR Program Open Studio is the public’s opportunity to meet TILT’s artists-in-residence and learn more about their artistic practices. Visit our Artist Lab to meet Idalia Vasquez-Achury, who is in residency at TILT for the month of September. During her residency Idalia will focus on developing a photobook that explores the migratory identity of the Latinx community through personal and historical memory. This will be a hybrid, structurally experimental book that engages with the gaps, absences, and silences in historical narratives, inviting a personal and collective process of reconciliation. The work asks: How do we, in our present bodies, confront turbulent pasts, deepen our relationship with the present, and imagine new futures?
Idalia Vasquez-Achury is a Colombian-born, Philadelphia-based lens media artist and educator. Exploring performance, installation, and photography, her practice centers on the Latinx diaspora, delving into physical and mental spaces of transition and perpetual becoming. Her multidisciplinary practice includes photography, artist books, and large-scale photographic installations. In 2023, Idalia was selected for the 97th Annual at The Print Center in Philadelphia, where she was awarded a solo exhibition. That same year, she received the Blake Bradford Fitler Club Artist-in-Residence Award. In 2024, she was part of the Wind Challenge Exhibition Series. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at The Print Center, Fleisher Art Memorial, and Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA; Candela Books + Gallery in VA; Scarab Club Gallery and 555 Gallery in MI; Photo Place Gallery in VT; and Casa Sin Fin in Bogotá, Colombia, among others. Her artwork is held in the collections of the Forman Arts Initiative and Temple University’s Charles Library. Idalia holds an MFA in Photography from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. She currently teaches photography at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University and Arcadia University.
