ARTIST CV
EDUCATION:
1997 BFA-Painting. Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Ithaca, NY
1993 Art Major, LaGuardia High School of Music & Art & the Performing Arts, New York, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Trenzando Identidades. Casa Escuté. Carolina, PR
2022 CucubaNación. Store-front community space as gallery/ immersive art installation dedicated to the lessons
of Boricua bioluminescence. CucubaNación. Mayagüez, PR
2018 Girls Across Borders. Grantmakers for Girls of Color Conference. Curator/ Artist. El Convento. Viejo San Juan, PR
2018 Juntilla Betancina, Museo de los Próceres, Cabo Rojo, PR
2018 CitiCien. Taller Boricua. New York, NY.
2017 Debt Fair, Occupy Museums, Participating artist. Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
2017 Occupy Museums’ Debt Fair. El Museo del Barrio. New York, NY
2017 Citicien, Defend PR, Clemente Soto Velez, LES, New York, NY
2016 Por la libre III, Museo de la Historia de Ponce, Casa Zapater, Ponce, PR
2016 Mi Querido Barrio, Augmented Reality exhibition, Caribbean Cultural Center/ African Diaspora Institute, NYC
2016 Homenaje a Ramon Emeterio Betances, Galeria Betances, Mayaguez, PR
2016 1936: Los juicios contra Albizu y el liderato nacionalista, Archivo General de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2016 Una Sola Voz, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture, Chicago, IL
(Traveled to Newark, NJ, Philadelphia, PA, New York City, San Sebastian, PR)
2015 ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
2015 Utuado Libertario, Biblioteca, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Utuado, PR
2015 Albizu: Semilla de Libertad, Archivo General de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2015 Flor de Guayacan, Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, PR
2014 Julia de Burgos, Sala de Galerias, La Princesa. Viejo San Juan, PR
2014 Rebirth. Art Start Studios, Chelsea. New York, NY
2014 Fusion, Armony Arts week. Pop-up Exhibit at Four Points by Sheraton Manhattan Soho Village. NYC
2014 Julia a través del Tiempo, Julia de Burgos Centennial Exhibition. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, PR
2013 El, Albizu. Museo Casa Escuté: Carolina, PR
2012 Crossroads: A celebration of Latina Artists. The Leeway Foundation. Philadelphia, PA
2011 Solo Exhibit: Bieké: Tierra de Valientes. Biblioteca Mojica Marrero. UPR, Humacao, PR
2011 Solo Exhibit: Bieké: Tierra de Valientes. Inter-Galería, La Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Fajardo, PR
2011 Afro-Latino Crossroads. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NYC
2009 Solo Exhibit: Bieké: Tierra de Valientes. Exhibit debut. Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, PR
2009 Solo Exhibit: Soul Rebels. Anne Reid Art Gallery. Princeton, NJ
2008 Solo Exhibit: Facing Freedom: Liberation Portraits. Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc. Philadelphia, PA
2008 A Day in the Life. Black History Month. Harlem School for the Arts. NYC
2007 Tradiciones Afro Caribeñas: Espiritualidad, Arte y Resistencia. Casa Escuté, Carolina, PR
2007 Solo Exhibit: ARCHIVOS SUBVERSIVOS. Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College/ CUNY. NYC
2007 Representation and Resistance. Intercultural Center, Columbia University. NYC.
2007 The Field: Selections from JCAL’s registry. Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica, NY
2006 Solo Exhibit: Abriendo Caminos. Tabler Arts Center. SUNY Stony Brook. Stony Brook, NY
2006 Yoruba Art. Center for African and African American Studies. University of Texas. Austin, TX
2006 El Museo's Bienal: The S-Files. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. San Juan, Puerto Rico
2006 Solo Exhibit: Legacies. Tatkon Center. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY
2005 El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files. El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2004 Solo Exhibit: Abra Sus Ojos/ Open Your Eyes. Art for Change @ Carlitos Café y Galeria, East Harlem, NY
2004 Five Contemporary Hispanic/ Latino Artists. Robeson Gallery. Penn State University. State College, PA
2004 Our Stories: Nuestras Historias. Avant-Garde Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
2003 Entre Banderas: Political Paintings and Prints. Terraza, Jackson Heights, NY
2003 Encuentro, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Kimmel Center, New York University, NYC
2001 BAD Ass Women’s Festival. The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance (BAAD), Bronx, NY
2000 12 Artists: Cornell Council for the Arts Invitational Exhibit. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
1999 Onaní: African Presence in Latin American & Caribbean Contemporary Visual Arts. Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA
1998 A Sense of Self: Ethnic Women Artists. Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Amer-Rican Borders: the Centennial of the US Invasion of Puerto Rico. Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Realidades de Quisqueya. Latino Studies Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1997 Proclaim Your Emancipation. Hartell Gallery. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
SELECTED LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, PANEL PRESENTATIONS:
2023 CucubaNación workshops on art and bioluminescence as part of MAC en el barrio. Brigada Solidaria del Oeste
San Germán, PR
2023 Art and Bioluminescence workshop for visiting class from Colgate University, NY. CucubaNación. Mayagüez, PR
2022 In the Spirit: Culturally Empowered Arts Movements of Justice panel moderated by artist Amalia Mesa-Bains
and CJI Founder Marta Moreno Vega. Virtual panel organized by the Creative Justice Initiative.
2022 Colonialismo, transnacionalismo y quehacer cultural local. Conversatorio con Vueltabajo Teatro.
Moderado por la Profesora Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas . Universidad ,de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
2019 Liberation Lessons in Bioluminescence. Puerto Rico Now panel, Latino Art Now, University of Houston. TX
2019 Art & Resistance Presentation for visiting students of Colgate University. Finca Plenitud. Las Marias, PR
2019 Liberation Lessons in Bioluminescence. Puerto Rico Now. Latino Art Now Conference, University of Houston. TX
2019 Puerto Ricans Crossing Diasporas. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2018 R&D Salon 23: On Protest. Artist Video contribution. Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY
2018 Repatriation Aesthetics/ Creating Cross-Charco. English Department. University of Puerto Rico. Mayagüez, PR
2018 Just Ricanstruction: Construyendo Puentes Pos-María. Allied Media Conference. Wayne State University. Detroit, MI
2017 Art and the Puerto Rico Debt. El Museo del Barrio. New York, NY
2017 Transcending like water. Puerto Rico/ Detroit Solidarity. Allied Media Conference. Wayne State University. Detroit, MI
2017 Citi100, Reflecting on 100 years of US Citizenship in Puerto Rico, Loisaida Cultural Arts Center, Inc, NYC
2015 Imagi/nation: An Intergenerational Reflection on the Young Lords' Contributions, Bronx Museum. Bronx, NY
2015 Documenting & Divulging Histories of Resistance Through Art, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR
2014 Art and Activism, Community Arts University Without Walls, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, San Juan PR
2013 LiberArte: Art and Personal Liberation. Slide Lecture. SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
2013 After the Bombs: 10 years since the Navy ceased bombings on Vieques. New York University. NYC
2012 ARTEvism: Art & Action, Race & Resistance, Spirituality & Struggle. University of Richmond. Richmond, VA
2012 Yo soy de aquí: Breaking Borders and Defining Diaspora through Art. Featured Artist.
Puerto Rican Studies Conference, 20th Anniversary. SUNY Albany. Albany, NY
2011 Bieké: Tierra de Valientes. La Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Fajardo, PR
2010 Bieké: Tierra de Valientes. Slide Lecture. New York University, New York, NY
2010 Bieké: Tierra de Valientes. Slide Lecture. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2010 Linea Negra. Women’s History Month keynote lecture and residency. Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2009 Bieké: Tierra de Valientes. Gallery talks with school children in Vieques, PR
2008 Facing Freedom: Liberation Portraits. Baruch College, CUNY. New York, NY
2007 RebelArte Visual Charlas. Monthly series. Cemi Underground. East Harlem, NY
2007 ARCHIVOS SUBVERSIVOS. Slide lecture. Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2007 Warrior Women. Slide lecture. La Casa Cultural. Yale University. New Haven, CT
2007 Soul Rebels: Culture and Politics. Slide lecture. Johnson and Wales University. Providence, RI
2006 Arte y Ache. Slide lecture. College of New Rochelle. New Rochelle, NY
2006 Yoruba Art Panel. Center for African & African American Studies. University of Texas. Austin, TX
2005 Soul Rebels workshop series for teens and adults. El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2005 Art and Agitation. Slide Lecture. Wagner School for Public Service. New York University, New York. NY
2004 Slide lecture. University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2004 Keynote Address. Latinos Count Conference. IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN
2004 The Art of Activism. Penn State University. State College, PA
2003 The Role of the Arts in Activism. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2003 Haciendo Patria: Art and Exile. Slide lecture. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2001 Spiritual Aesthetics and Cultural Manifestations. Columbia University, New York, NY
1999 The Harshest Voice. Slide lecture. Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
1999 Cultural Aesthetics as Social and Political Agitators. Kean University, Elizabeth, NJ
1998 Puerto Rican Women at the Turn of the Century: The Challenge of Double Colonization.
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS:
2020 Commissioned to create a portrait of Julia de Burgos for Women’s Empowerment portrait series commemorating
the centennial of the 19th Amendment. Art Force 5 Program. School of Art and Design. Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2018 Love Lessons, 8’x8’ panel commissioned on the theme of education & resistance. The People’s Forum. New York, NY
2016 Commissioned by award-winning playwright Sharon Bridgforth to design and create an oracle deck featuring
characters from her play, dat Black Mermaid Man Lady
2015 Somos Muchos, Portrait of Oscar Lopez Rivera, for the political prisoner conference Luchas de Ayer, Hoy y Siempre, University of Puerto Rico, Mayguez, Puerto Rico.
2011 Soldaderas, outdoor mural in tribute to Frida Kahlo, Julia de Burgos and the Mexican & Puerto Rican
communities. Art for Change & Hope Community. Modesto Flores Community Garden. East Harlem, NY
2008 40 years of student activism. 5-panel series. The Intercultural Center, Columbia University, NYC
2008 Mothers of the Motherless. Indoor mural celebrating revolutionary women/ LGBT leaders.
The Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgendered People, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2005 Soul Rebels, Revolutionary poets & musicians. El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files. 16 month-installation on Heckscher Theater doors. El Museo del Barrio. NYC
AWARDS
2023 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant, San Antonio TX
2021 Actos de Confianza grant, National Association of Latino Arts & Culture. San Antonio, TX
2021 Ripple Grant-BIPOC arts leaders. Cultural Equity Learning Community. Arts Connect International, Boston, MA
2018 El Resuelve, Hurricane Maria emergency Grant for artists. Beta Local. San Juan, PR
2009 Artist Grant, The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Teaneck, NJ
2007 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant, San Antonio, TX
2007 Travel Grant, CUNY-Caribbean Exchange Program. The Center for Puerto Rican Studies. New York, NY
2006 Artist Grant, The George Sugarman Foundation, Inc. Novato, CA
2006 Artist/ Activist of the Year, Art for Change. New York, NY
2004 Ramón Feliciano Social Justice Prize, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, NYC
2004 Mujeres Destacadas/ Outstanding Latinas Award, El Diario/ La Prensa, New York, NY
1996 Individual Artist Grant; Cornell Council for the Arts, Ithaca, NY