A Gift of Paintings to benefit the El Zaguán Capital Campaign
Works by Kuzana Ogg

Call HSFF to schedule an appointment to view Kuzana Ogg’s work in person: 505.983.2567

Historic Santa Fe Foundation presented an exhibition of gifted works by former resident artist Kuzana Ogg in January 2022. The exhibition ran from January 10-28, 2022; however, paintings from the exhibition are still available to purchase.

Each purchase will help to fund the El Zaguán Capital Campaign that works towards funding our acequia demonstration in the garden, a new welcome and interpretation center, and ground and building renovations.

This is an exclusive offer to own one of Ogg’s paintings and benefit HSFF. We are delighted to offer special pricing these pieces with inquiries. Contact Melanie McWhorter at 505.983.2567 or melanie@historicsantafe.org.

We are so grateful to Ogg for offering her support to HSFF through this gift of highly collectible paintings. Ogg is an internationally recognized artist with worldwide gallery representation. Her work is represented and also on display in Santa Fe at Gebert Contemporary.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
The first years of her life were divided between the ancestral home of her grandfather, surrounded by lush gardens and groves of coconut trees, and her grandmother’s exquisite Worli sea face residence. Kuzana’s earliest memories are of temperate weather, fragrant jasmine blossoms, and cascading layers of color.

In time, Kuzana and her infant sister joined their newly immigrated parents in England. The setting changed from streets crammed with disorderly traffic and cows to cars neatly parked in rows, but Kuzana preferred the crumbling palatial structures that still lived in her mind to these frilly curtains and tidy brick homes. The new plastic toys at her feet became the rude complement of those of tin and copper that lay beside them.

Her tiffin tucked in her luggage, Kuzana shuttled in train cars to boarding schools in Cornwall, Surrey, and Kodaikanal. At the age of 10, she and her family relocated to New York, and the American metropolis took shape in those eyes where the Deccan plateau once stood.

It was as an art student at SUNY Purchase that Kuzana met her husband and began the work in love and paint of revisiting the garden of her childhood. They married after their graduation in 1995, and moved to South Korea, spending the next six years teaching English in historic Kyung Ju. Returning to the United States in 2001, they lived first in New Mexico and 11 years later, migrated to California's Central Valley.  In 2017 they returned to Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Kuzana is a former resident artist at El Zaguán on Santa Fe's Canyon Road. She has participated in seven residencies: in Minnesota, Sri Lanka, China, Scotland and Latvia. In February of 2020, Kuzana completed a residency at The Old School House in Hrisey, Iceland. Her paintings have been included on the sets of both television shows and feature films—the most recent of which are Where’d You Go Bernadette, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Southpaw and My All-American. Kuzana's first solo museum exhibition was Oil at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in 2014. A second solo followed shortly thereafter, Rev Zero at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in 2015. Kuzana's work has been exhibited, published, and collected both privately and publicly, nationally, and internationally.