Polina Porras Sivolobova is a Russian-Mexican-New Yorker artist and educator working through performance, puppetry, collage, artist books, and multimedia installations. Her practice moves between live action and image, bodies and objects, narratives and ritual, everyday gestures, and cultural syncretism.

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At the center of her work are female archetypes in continuous transformation, creating ritualistic spaces where mythology, migration, and border culture roll like tumbleweeds into the margins of cultural hybridity and questions of the future. Her women can unfold in streets, public spaces, theaters, and galleries, sometimes in unique, site-specific, participatory actions, other times in durational and repetitive expanded performances. Nomadism informs where practice, moving constantly, the constant environment shifts inspire her to create new stories.

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Polina is a five-time awardee of the Queens Council on the Arts grant. She is currently developing Coyolxauhqui’s Lament, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and has developed work internationally through residencies, commissions, and long-term collaborations, including El Museo del Barrio in New York City, the University of Art and Design Linz, the Mexican Embassy in Kuwait and the United Kingdom, and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.

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Polina carries a recurring dream of walking endlessly in the desert and collecting stones and other dead things.