New York, 1960 | Lives and work in New York, NY
Education
BA Painting and Drawing, Bennington College New York Studio School, New York, NY
Solo Shows (selection)
2016 Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France
2015 Heads and Tales, Espacio 20/20, San Juan, PR
2012 Hollywoodland, Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KY
Group Exhibition (selection)
2016 Monopatín III, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2016 Alumni Group Show, New York Studio School, New York, NY
2016 HeadSpace, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY
2015 The Abstract Body, curated by Craig Stockwell, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2015 New New York: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century, Manoa Art Gallery, University of Hawai’I, Honolulu, Hawaii
2015 Antitode, The Mykonos Biennale, curated by Lydia Venieri, Mykonos, Greece
2014 Color Me Badd, curated by Chris Bors, The Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Minimal Baroque, curated by Courtney J. Martin, Julie Sass, and Bodil Neilssen, Ronnebaeksholm, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 Endless Summer, curated by Gary Petersen, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Tectonic Shift, curated by Noah Post, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Silhouette, curated by William Carroll, The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY
2013 Doing Pennants, curated by Paul Evans, Fifth Floor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Buy My Bananas. curated by Julia Trotta, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
2011 New Work, New Faces, Storefront Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Paper Trail, curated by Paul Evans, Happy, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Phantoms, Stephan Stoyanoy, New York, NY
2009 Phantoms, Luxe Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2009 Quietly, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
Awards (selection)
2015 Guggenheim Fellowship
2014 The Danish Council on the Arts
Eggheads, 2014, oil on canvas, 36" x 64" (91 x 162.5 cm)
Man with No Mouth, 2014, oil on canvas, 36" x 32" (91 x 81cm)
Crying Man, 2014, oil on canvas, 36" x 32" (91 x 81 cm)
Audience, 2014, oil on canvas, 36" x 32" (91 x 81 cm)
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1986. Lives and Works in San Juan.
Education
2012-14 Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, MA Curaduría en Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires, Argentina (attended)
2010 Goldsmith’s College, University of London, BA (Hons.) Art Practice, New Cross, London
2007 Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, Bellas Artes (Sculpture) San Juan, Puerto Rico
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Diagonal de Luz, Espaco Saracura, Rio de Janeiro
2016 Mineralia, Holz Kohlen Koks, Berlin, Germany
2015 Haz, Recinto Cerra, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2015 Reintegro, Colmado Abreu, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
2012 El Luthier, La Ene – Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2011 La Isla que se Repite, Laguna Torrecillas, Loiza, Puerto Rico
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2017 Azul da Estrela, Baró Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
2017 Hot, Produce Model Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2016 Open, Curated by Bojan Sarcevic, Salon Mondial, Basel, Switzerland.
2014 C-32 Sucursal, MALBA Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 Final del Juego Curaduria: Laeticia Mello, Fundacion PROA Buenos Aires,
2013 Artesur: Collective Fictions as part of Nouvelles Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2012 Artes e Ofícios1- para todos Evento paralelo ao calendario oficial da 30a Bienal de Sao Paulo Galpão do Liceu de Artes e Ofícios, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2012 11a Bienal de la Habana ‘Detrás del Muro’ (‘Behind the Wall’), La Habana, Cuba
2011 1a Gran Bienal Tropical ‘Trópico Abierto’ Curated by Pablo León de la Barra, Loíza Puerto Rico 2009 Discourses CCA North/South Gallery 5241 College Avenue, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
2009 (New) Cross Atlantic as part of Deptford X Visual Art Festival, Old Police Station. London, U.K.
Residencies
2019 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Captiva, FL, USA
2018 Residencia Artística TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
2017-18 Dos Mares Residency – Funded by Institut Francais, Marseille, France
2017 Uberbau-house Programa de Residencias de Pesquisa na Arte Contemporânea– Organized by Curatoria Forense, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2015 Davidoff Art Initiative Residency, with Chus Martinez. A colaboration between Atelier Mondial and HGK FHNW, Basel, Switzerland.
2015-16 La Practica, Beta Local. San Juan, Puerto Rico
2012 The Banff Centre Visual Arts Residency: The Decapitated Museum with Vincent Normand, Etienne Chambaud and Domenique Gonzalez-Foerster. Alberta, Canada.
Publications (Selection)
2017 Johannes Willi: Free Willi 2 – Freiheit in Gefahr Hrsg. vom Kunstmuseum Basel / Redaktion: Eveline Wüthrich, Johannes Willi / Mit Texten von Eva Falge, Philipp Selzer, Johannes Willi, Ingela Ihrman, Deng Dafei, Shuang Li, Li Ming, Wu Junyong, anothermountainman, Ignazio Mortellaro, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Dino Real, Guillermo Rodriguez
2014 Sucursal, La Ene en MALBA Malba- Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 Decolonial AestheSis at the 11th Havana Biennial’, Social Text Journal, Decolonial Aesthesis issue edited by Walter Mignolo and Rolando Vazquez.
2013 Arte-Sur Collective Fictions, Introduction Palais, Le Magazine du Palais de Tokyo, June 2013: pp. 90-95
2012 Oncena Bienal de la Habana: Prácticas Artisticas e Imaginarios Sociales, Canals Feitas, W. Ed. Maretti Editore, Roma. pp. 83- 84. 2009 Frescos: 50 artistas puertorriqueños menores de 35 Nogueras, C. Ed. Muuaaa, San Juan. pp. 256- 257.
Grants
2017 Visa Pour la Creation, Institut Francais
2015 El Serrucho, Awarded by Beta Local
2012 Banff Centre, Jim Dinning & Evelyn Main Endowed Scholarship for Visual Artists
2010 Henry Moore Foundation Grant for the development of Parabolas del Agua –an Exhibition of Contemporary Cuban Art.
Aguas Aéreas, 2018
Mineralia, 2017, enamel on asphalt
Especulaciones, 2014, oil on canvas, variable dimensions
Balcony / Cyanometer (Proa), 2014, site specific installation, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires ARG
Palimpesto, 2014 - ongoing, unlucky Puerto Rico’s national lottery tickets on canvas
Communitas, 2012, harp embedded in wall
San Juan PR, 1982 | Lives and works in Brooklyn NY
Education
2009 MFA Painting and Drawing Department, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago,IL
2007 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2004 BFA Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2020 Acervo, Historia y Futuro, Museo de Arte de Caguas, PR
2019 Light + Art, Ketra Lighting Showroom, New York, NY
2018 Romancero, Cosentino Manhattan and Arlene Angard Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Wind, Light and Color, Arlene Angard Gallery, New York, NY
2016 In Search of Asphodels, Cuevas Tilleard, New York, NY
2016 Paramnesia, Instituto de Cultura. San Juan, PR
2014 Taquicardia, Recinto Cerra, San Juan, PR
2012 Salvoconducto, The Active Space Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Lüx, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group exhibitions (selection)
2016 Material, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Chicago, IL
2015 Hot Town, Cuevas Tilleard, New York, NY
2015 Reactivator, Active Space, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Zawahra Alejandro, Con Artist, New York, NY
2015 Muestra Nacional de las Artes Plásticas, Instituto de Cultura Puertoriqueña, San Juan, PR
2014 By the Pleasure of Doing, Espacio 20/20, San Juan, PR
2014 Super Macho, Active Space Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 November Group Show, The Diplomat, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Colectivo1, 2BLEÓ, San Juan, PR
2012 Friends with Benefits, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2012 Making their Mark, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
2011 Boricuas Bestiales, Museo La Ene, Buenos Aires, ARG
2011 A Person of Color/A Mostly Orange Exhibition, curated by José Lerma, The Green Gallery Milwaukee, WI
2010 Vamos, UBS, Stamford, CT
2010 New York-San José, Galería Bickar, San José, Costa Rica
2009 Painterly Ports, Abryant Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Panamérica, Sullivan Galleries, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Awards & Recognitions (selection)
2014 Shortlisted, Lexus Artist Grant, San Juan, PR
2009 Union League Civic and Art Foundation, Second Prize, Chicago, IL
2008 The Art Institute of Chicago Community Associates Scholarship
Public Collections
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Museo de Arte de la Universidad del Turabo, Caguas, PR
The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Carnaval Caribe, 2020, mix media on canvas, 50 x 40 in
Despertar en Abril, 2020, 50 x 40 in
Seaside Breeze, 2020, 50 x 40 in
Paramnesia, 2016, mix media on canvas, 60 x 40 in
Belisario, 2014, 48 x 48 in
