Cynthia Pareja Dubin is a Peruvian multidisciplinary artist. Her practice is based in abstract painting and collage, to capture her formative inspiration and heritage in Lima, Buenos Aires and the United States as raw materials to visually convey a journey to an imagined universe.

At the age of 18 she transferred to “Universidad de Palermo” and moved to Argentina.

During the next years, living in a city rich in inspiration, she took art history courses and painting techniques that fostered her passion for the pre- and post- war Avant-Garde, all while taking the creative influence the two cities of Buenos Aires and Lima had to offer.

She graduated from the Universidad de Palermo with a BA in Graphic Design where she was awarded First Prize for Editorial Design.

After graduating, she returned to Lima where she worked painting Objet d’arts and participated in the Peruvian U.N Fair.

As her next position, Pareja Dubin worked as a professor of branding and graphic design with the marketing department for the Peruvian Institute of Art and Design (I.P.A.D) in 2012. She finished this opportunity by being part of a judging panel for the students’ theses.

She then moved to the Greater New York Area where she continued her artistic development at the Art Students League of New York.

Pareja Dubin’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions, including The Peruvian UN Fair, Lima, Peru (2012), Equinox, New York Art Gallery, NYC (2019), Brilliant, New York Art Gallery, NYC (2019), Conceptual, New York Art Gallery, NYC (2019), 12 x 12, New York Art Gallery, NYC (2019), Boxing Day, New York Art Gallery, NYC (2019), Manufacturers Village Open Studios, East Orange, NJ (2021), The Art of Dreams, Brooklyn Art Cave, NYC (2022), Beyond the Brush, Alfa Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ (2022), Parallel Universes, Paper Mill Playhouse Gallery, Millburn, NJ (2022), 4 Hands, Jnunez Gallery, Millburn, NJ (2022) and 14C Art Fair, Jersey City (2022).

Her first solo exhibition “Intangible Ecosystems” took place at the Hotel Sofitel, Philadelphia (2023).

Noteworthy Magazines and publications that have recognized Pareja Dubin’s artistic practice include Juxtapoz Magazine, Elephant Magazine, Artspiel, The Racket Reading Series San Francisco, Tapinto NJ, Art in New York City, New Brunswick City Center, New Jersey Stage and Canvas Rebel.

In 2021 Cynthia was awarded with the “Liquitex” Just Imagine Residency: Acrylic Mediums, she was selected by a panel of artists, curators and art writers for a fully funded residency supported with a studio, professional development and materials to take place in the Manufacturers Village in East Orange in May, 2021.

In 2023 MOVE92 selected Cynthia Pareja Dubin for commission to produce an artwork with the prompt: “What would your community feel like if women had equal opportunities?”, and she developed the concept for “Nine, Like Us”, “Nueve, Como Nosotras” incorporating nine equal sized compositions representing women with different stories from all around the world.

The same year, she began teaching “Introduction to Abstract Art”, an adults’ course at South Avenue Arts in Garwood, New Jersey.

Pareja Dubin is devoted to visual concepts and colors. Her intricately blended backgrounds, swirling palette and otherwordly shapes transport the viewer far away from the everyday world. She assembles recycled textures and materials sourced from her own creations to compose unique structures, manifesting a new ecosystem from discarded elements.