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Education
School of Visual Arts, NY. M.F.A. 1993
Sculpture, Parsons School of Design, NY. B.F.A. 1991
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME. 1995
Solo Exhibitions
“Rest Ashore,” Locust Projects, Miami, FL. 2020
“Terrestrial Bodies,” Miami Dade College Special Collection, Cuban Legacy Gallery, Miami, FL. 2019-20
Round 49: penumbras: sacred geometries, “terrestrial bodies: roteiro,,” Project Row Houses, Houston TX. 2019
“The Colored of Bone China,” Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. 2017
“An Inherent View of the World,” Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL. 2015
“From Island to Ocean: Caribbean and Pacific Dialogues,” Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. 2015
“Mettre Noir Sur Blanc,” Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg, NJ. 2015
“Remnants- “What Remains,” Thomas Hunter Project Space, Hunter College, CUNY, NY. 2014
“SENSEI Exchange Series @ “The Cellar” of Little Fox Café, Part 008: In The Fold, NY. 2013
“Past/Present Tense — Tiempos del Subjuntivo,” Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, NY. 2009
“Looking Back 1994 – 2004,” paul sharpe contemporary art, New York, NY. 2006
“The Land that time forgot” Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL. 2006
“Juana Valdes/Pedro Velez,” Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY. 2002
“Haarlem/Harlem-Transported Illusions”, Begane Grond Kunstcentrum, Utrecht, Netherlands. 2000
“Empty Space,” The Avram Gallery, Southampton College-Long Island Unv. Southampton, NY. 2000
“YUCA,” Miami Dade Community College, Inter-American Gallery, Miami, FL. 1998
“Sweet Honesty- Tender Pink,” Phoenix Gallery Project Room, NY. 1997
Grants/Fellowships
Anonymous Was A Woman 2020, New York, NY. 2020
Faculty Research Grant/Healey Endowment Grant, UMASS, 2020
Joan Mitchell Foundation 2018 Painters & Sculptors Grants, NY. 2018
Ellies Award, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, Miami, FL. 2018
National Association of Latinos Arts and Culture, Visual Artists, MA. 2016
The Lifelong Learning Society (Jupiter) Faculty Research and Travel Fund, FL. 2012
Faculty Research Mentoring Program, FAU, FL. 2011
The Netherland-American Foundation, Cultural Grant, 2011
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship in Sculpture, 2011
National Association of Latinos Arts and Culture, Visual Artists Grant, 2009
The City University of New York’s Diversity Projects Development Fund, NY. 2008
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Grant, New Smyrna, FL. 2007
Cuban Artist Fund Grant, New York, NY. 2003
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY. 1998
Cosby Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. 1995
School of Visual Arts, Merit Scholarship, New York, NY. 1992
Residencies
The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, FL. 2017
European Keramic Work Center, Ceramic Residency, The Netherlands. 2017
Miami Goes Elsewhere, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC. 2016
Guttenberg Arts Space, Time Artists Residency (STAR), Guttenberg, NJ. 2015
Dialogues in Cuban Art, Artist Exchange Program Between Miami/Cuba, 2015
Immersion Artist Residency, Power Arts Center, William Patterson University, NJ. 2015
Visual Artists Network, Artist in Resident, Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Miami, FL. 2014
Sunday Morning@ European Keramic Work Centre, Den, Bosch, NL. 2012
CEC ArtsLink, Publicly Creative Workshop, New York, NY. 2011
Jamaica Center for the Arts & Learning, Artists-in-Residency, NY. 2008-09
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, Fl. Joan Mitchell Grant, 2007
Lower EastSide Printshop, Key Holder, NY. 2005
The Center for Book Arts, Artist Residency, NY. 2005
Smack Mellon Studio Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY. 2003
European Ceramic Work Center, Artists Residency Award, Den Bosch, Netherlands.2002
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, National and International Studio Program, LIC, NY.1997
Experimental Intermedia Huis, Gent, Belgium.1996
Manhattan Graphic Center, Artist Residency, New York, NY.1992
International Biennial & Art Fairs:
2018 “Materiality,” curated by Anthony Spinello, Scope Special Project NY. 2018, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY.
2017 “Fair. Market,” Fair site-specific interventions in a non-traditional venue, Co-curated by Zoe Lukov and Anthony SpinelloDecember 7 – 10, 2017 Brickell City Center, Miami, FL.
2017 “Z SONA MACO México Arte Contemporáneo 14th Edition,” Mindy Solomon Gallery Booth ZMS13, February 8 – 12, 2017 Centro Citibanamex, Hall D, Mexico City, Mexico.
2016 “much wider than a line,” SITELINE: 2016 New Perspectives on Art of the Americas, Site Santa Fe, Curators: Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Pip Day, Pablo León de la Barra, and Kiki Mazzucchelli.
2012 “3rd Bronx Latin American Art Biennial 2012, Dynamic Convention Contemporary Latin American Art,” Gordon Parks Gallery, College of New Rochelle Annex, New York, NY.
Group Exhibitions
2020
_“COMBINE STRENGHT: Four Decades of Miami-base Women Artist,” Minotti, Design District, Miami, FL.
2019
_“Queer + Peculiar Craft,” The Clemente, Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, NY.
_“GROUNDED,” Spinello Project, Miami, FL.
_“Building a Feminist Archive: Cuban Women Photographers in the US., at Pompano Beach Cultural Art Center, Pompano, FL.
“RAW: Craft, Commodity, and Capitalism,” curated by Holly Jerger, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA.
_“Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago,” curated by Tatiana Flores, Delaware Art Museum, DE.
_“Ghost In the Ghost, curated by Danielle Wu, Tiger Strike Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY.
_“Project Row Houses, Round 49: Penumbras: Sacred Geometries, Curated by William Cordova and Ryan Dennis, Houston, TX.
_“Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago,” curated by Tatiana Flores, Portland Art Museum, Maine.
“Politics of Place,” Center for Book Arts, Curators: Alexander Campos and Monica Oppen, New York, NY.
2018
_“Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago,”curated by Tatiana Flores, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL.
_ “Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago,”curated by Tatiana Flores, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, Lenfest Center for the Arts and Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, NY.
_“Hanging By a Nail, By a Thread, By The Skin of Your Teeth,” Spinello Projects, Miami, FL.
_“Under the Influence,” curated Edra Soto, The Ralph Arnold Gallery, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Loyola University, Chicago, OH.
_“All You Have Is Your Soul,” curated by Meyken Barreto and Armando Marino, Faction Art Projects, Harlem, NY.
2017
_“Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago,” curated by Tatiana Flores, Museum of Latin American Art, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Long Beach, CA.
_“OF/BY/FOR,” curated by Ileana Fuentes, The American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, Miami, FL.
_“The tranphysics we Knew About,” curatorial project by William Cordova, PRIZM Art Fair Fourth Edition, December 6th – 17th, 2017, Mana Contemporary Downtown, Miami, FL.
_“Abstracting History, Second Chapter in On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection,” curated by Tobais Ostrander, Perez Art Museum Miami, FL.
_“Art on the Vine 2017 in Martha’s Vineyard,”,” presented by Agora Culture, Dr. Daniel Fisher House, August 12- 14 2017, Martha’s Vineyard, MA.
2016
_“transphysics: istwa, landscapes, paisajesm,” Curated William Cordova Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL.
_“Smack Mellon 20thAnniversary Show,” curated by Charlotta Kotik, former curator at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
_“Indivisible:spirits in the material world,” PRIZM Art Fair fourth Edition, Curated William Cordova, Miami FL.
_“2016-2017 CINTAS Foundation Finalist Visual Arts,” The Miami Dade College Museum of Art + Design, Freedom Tower, Miami, FL.
_“Art on the Vine 2016,” Dr. Daniel Fisher House, The Agora Culture, Martha’s Vineyard, MA.
_“Intersectionality,” Curated Richard Haden Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL.
_“Jameco Exchange,” No Longer Empty, curated by Rachel Gugelberger, Jamaica, Queens, NY.
_“New Wave,” UMASS Junior Faculty Exhibition, NPOP, NY.
_“transmissions: algoritmos, polyrhythms, karuraqmi purina,” Curated William Cordova, The Franklin, Chicago, OH.
_“EL MUSEO@SVA,” Curated by Rocio Aranda, SVA Gallery, New York, NY.
2015
“Littlest Sister Art Fair @Spinello Project,” Curated by Sofia Bastidas, Miami, FL.
“Made Here,” New Works by Artist in Residency, Guttenberg Arts, NJ.
“Then & Now: Ten Years of Residencies at the Center for Book Arts,” Curate by Alex Campos, Executive Director, New York, NY.
“Alternate Currents | New Art,” DVCAI, 18th International Cultural Exchange to GuadeloupeL’Artocarpe Contemporary Space, Guadeloupe.
2014
“Third Space: Inventing the Impossible,” Museum of Contemporary Art, North, Miami, FL.
“Negritud in Latin American Art,” Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
“MIA_ATL,” curated by William Cordova, SaltWorks, Atlanta, GA.
“Pulling the Devil’s Tail | artist prints,” The Fisher Gallery, Horace Mann School, New York, NY.
“MIA/BER,” curated by William Cordova, Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler, Berlin, GE.
“Mujeres al borde de una isla/ Women at the Edge of an Island,” Sweet Home series of the Museo Cubano. Ileana Fuentes, Cultural Consultant and Jesús Rosado, Guest Curator, Miami, FL.
2013
“Identity and the Accumulation of Memory, Contemporary Cuban Artist,” curated by, Alexis Mendoza, Boricua College Art Gallery, NY.
”Multiple, Limited, Unique: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Center for Book Arts”, Organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director, Jen Larson, Collections Specialist, and the Collections Committee.
Exhibition traveled to:
January 28-April 15, 2013 The Book Club of California, San Francisco, CA.
October 1-December 31, 2012 Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
May 31-August 25, 2012 Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX .
February 3-May 6, 2012 Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
October 6-December 9, 2011 Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA.
2012
“3rd Bronx Latin American Art Biennial 2012, Dynamic Convention Contemporary Latin American Art,” Gordon Parks Gallery, College of NEW ROCHELLE ANNEX, New York, NY.
“Operating System,” The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art, curated by Heng-Gil Han, NY.
“ART/QUAKE, Print Portfolio, Co-Sponsor by Haiti Cultural Exchange, Five Myle, NY.
2011
“2011- 2012 CINTAS Finalists Exhibition in Visual Arts, Miami Dade College and The CINTAS Foundation, Miami, FL.
“Multiple, Limited, Unique: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Center for
Book Arts,” curated by Alexander Campos, Executive Director, Jen Larson, Collections Specialist NY.
”Faces of the Economy,” Art for Change Gallery, New York, NY.
ART/QUAKE, Print Portfolio, Co-Sponsor by Haiti Cultural Exchange, RFA Gallery, NY.
“Planet of Slums, Curators Omar Lopez-Chahoud and LaToya Ruby Frazier, 3rd Streaming, NY.
2010
“Planet of Slums, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, Curators Omar Lopez-Chahoud and LaToya Ruby Frazier, New Brunswick, NJ.
2009
“Three Latina Artists / Artistas Latinas,” Curated by Alejandro Anreus, Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts Court Gallery, William Patterson University. NJ.
“Seaworthy,” Corridor Gallery, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
“D’Ailleurs-I Won’t Play Other To Your Same,” Galerie Art Esai, University Rennes, France.
2008
“Red Badge of Courage,” Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Newark Arts Council,NJ.
“Intransit,” Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY.
“CINTAS Foundation 2008 Fellowship Finalist Exhibition, Miami, FL.
“FATHOM: Exploring the Depths of Water as Concept, Content and Context,” Texas State University – San Marcos, TX.
“From Taboo To Icon: Africanist Turnabout”, Ice Box Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, Curated by Sophie Sanders and Shervone Neckles.
2007
“Feminine Mystique” Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Jersey City Museum, NJ.
“Pleasure Beach,” Five Myles, Brooklyn NY.
“TRANS_” Curated by Juliana Driever Queens Library Gallery, NY.
“Multiplicity: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture,” Landmark Arts Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX.
“Multiplicity: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture,” San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts San Angelo, TX
“Multiplicity: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture,” Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso,TX.
2006
“TROPICALISMS,” Curate by Rocio Aranda, New Jersey City Museum, NJ.
“Cultural Redress: Reinterpreting Fashions from the Index of American Design” Queens Library Gallery, NY
“Multiplicity: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture,” Portland Art Center, Portland, OR.
Art Miami, Art Fair, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami Beach, FL.
“Glimpse” Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
“Feature Artist Project,” Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
“Art Miami, Art Fair, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami Beach, FL.
2005
“Outcaste”: Crossing the line to the Model Majority, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Art Basel, Miami, FL.
“Accessibility2005: TRANSPLANTED – Latino Artists in the USA,” Sumter, SC.
“Deep Blue: Caribbean-American Statements,” Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL.
“Deep Blue: Caribbean-American Statements,” Florida Craftsmen, St. Petersburg, FL .
“ASSumptions,” Paul Sharpe Contemporay Art, Curate by Paul Sharpe, NY
_“Body Human,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NY.
2004
“Un-staged” Arti et Amicitiae, Curated by Charlie Citron, Amsterdam, NL.
“Jamaica Flux: Workspace and Window,” Jamaica Art Center, Queens, NY.
“All the numbers I know,” Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Presence of Light”, Curate by Kathleen Gilrain, The Berkshire Museum, MA.
“Hope & Glory: The Enduring Legacy of Oscar B. Cintas” 2004 Visual Awards, M.A.C., Miami, FL.
“Ahora Es El Futuor/ The Future Is Now,” Contemporary Cuban Artist Part 1, Show Walls, NY
2003
“The Caribbean Abroad: Contemporary Artists and Latino Migration,” Newark Museum, NJ.
“Telling,” FiveMyles, Curate by Tom Kotik, Brooklyn, NY.
“Brooklyn on 57th Street,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NY.
“Dutch Souvenirs,” Galerie Binnen, Amsterdam, NL.
2002
“Attention Span”, Video lounge, FreeSpace, Sydney, Australia.
“Anthology of Art,” website http://www.anthology-of-art.net,
2001
“Prodigal Prodigy, White Box Gallery, curated by Theo Tegelaers, New York, NY.
“The Brewster Project,” 2-Day Event -Site Specific Installation, Brewster NY.
“The Program,” Curate by Pedro Velez for FGA, Chicago, IL.
2000
“S-Files/Selected from the Files,” El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
“En el Malecon,” Laffite-Soler Interventions -7th Havana Bienal, Cuba.
“Dusty,” Kentler International Drawing Space, Curated by Theo Tegelaers, New York, NY.
“European Contemporary Art In The Point of Intersection Between Culture and Nations,” International workshop- residency, Ryn, Poland.
“TV Guide Video Show,” SOAPBOX Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
“Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition 2000,” Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1999
“Point of View: Between Two Cities,” Cultural Exchange Project, Art & Idea, Garillo Gil Museum, Mexico D.F. and Art In General, New York, NY.
“Hallowed Halls: A Hybrid Halloween,” Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NY.
“Art For Park: N.A.G. Benefit,” Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
1998
“Ruido,” Taller Boricua Gallery at The Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center, NY.
“Open Salvo,” White Box Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, New York, NY.
“Wish You Luck,” 22nd Studio Residency Program Exhibition, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.
1997
“Hanging by a Thread,” The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY.
1996
_“one. one. one. one.,” Rush Foundation Art Gallery, New York, NY.
1995
“Objects of Domestic Display,” Longwood Gallery, Bronx, NY.
“Resisting Categories,” City Without Walls, Newark, NJ.
1994
“Personal Property,” Art in General, New York, NY.
“What are you looking at,” 128 Rivington Gallery, New York, NY.
“Art in the Clinic,” The Women’s Health show, Women’s Center, Bronx, NY.
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Curatorial & Collaborations
“5X5,” El Museou de Arte Contemporania, Acarigua-Aurare, Venezuela, 2004
“4A,” The Annex, Curated Exhibition of Graduate Students from Bard College. NY.2002
“Thaw,” Panel Moderator, Artists Panel Discussion, Art in General, NY.1998
“Between The Acts,” Art in General, Curated women artists group show, NY.1997
“Spannugsbogen,” Ah! Space, Curated artists group show, NY.1997
“Angels in New York,” Artist Carlos Blanco, Producer by Juana Valdes, NY.1995
Apogee Arts Organization, co founder of Africa Diaspora non-for profits organization.1994
Naw Gallery, Gallery Director, NY.1994-1995
“Christo Surrounded Island,” Island assistant, Fl.1982
Professional Accomplishments
Teaching
University of Massachusetts Amherst, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Art Department, Massachusetts. 2015- Present
Florida Atlantic University, Visual Arts Department, 2010-2015
Brooklyn College, CUNY, Visual Arts Art Department, NY. 2005-06
Cooper Union School of Art, Outreach Program, NY. 2005
Yale School of Art, Digital Screen Print Workshop, CT. 2004
Visiting Professor of Studio Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-the Hudson, NY.1998-2002
Artist-Teacher MFA Program, Vermont College of Norwich University, VT. 2002-15
Lectures & Symposiums
Women In Print: Latin America panel organized by Guttenberg Arts, 8th floor Gallery Rubin Foundation, NY. 2016
Dialogues in Cuban Art, Perez Art Museum Miami, FL. 2016
“Examining the Art Scene in Cuba from New York’s Perspective: A Discussion in Anticipation of the XLIX Congress of AICA International.” 8th floor Gallery Rubin Foundation, NY. 2016
Cuba Today: Art, Politics, and Economics, ART TABLE, NY. 2016
Parsons Pop Up Print Shop & Show, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New School for Social Research, NY. 2015
Visiting Artist series, Center for New Arts, William Patterson University, NJ. 2015
Archipelagoes Seminar, FROM ISLAND TO OCEAN: CARIBBEAN AND PACIFIC DIALOGUES,” Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers Univ. New Brunswick, NJ. 2015
Visiting Artist series, Arts@ Oswego, Oswego, SUNNY, NY. 2015
Lecture Series at Florida Atlantic University organized by Juana Valdes and moderated by Dr. Mary Ann Goqser-Esquilin, Revisiting the Caribbean and Latin American: Contemporary Conversations on Visual Arts, Panelist: María Elena Ortizis,Elizabeth Cerejido,Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Miami, FL. 2015
Nova SouthEastern University, Hispanic Heritage Celebration, Ft. Lauderdale, 2010
Parson School of Design, Printmaking Dept. Artist/Lecture, NY. 2003-04
Lafayette College, Visiting Artist Lecture & Student Workshop, PA. 2002
Visiting Artist/Critic Lecture program, University of Wisconsin-Madison,WI.2001
Artist Lecture series, Rutgers University, The Center for Latinos Arts and Culture,NJ.2000
Artist Exhibition and Lecture, Miami-Dade Community College, Fl.1999
Apogee Video Screening & Symposium, The New School presented by Downtown Arts Festival, NY.1998
Artists Talk on Art, Panel Discussion, Fulcrum Gallery, NY.1998
Visiting Artist Series, Louisiana Tech. University, School of the Arts, LA.1997
Art as Action, Simon Says, Art in General, NY.1997
Visiting Artist Series, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.1996
Visiting Artists Lecture, County College of Morris, NJ.1996
Collections
Perez Art Museum Miami
The Newark Museum, NJ.
European Ceramic Work Center, NL.
Nohra Haime Gallery, NY.
Numerous private collections