Photo by Joel Gaal, courtesy of Red Bull House of Art 2
Joiri Minaya will be in residence at Rosemary Square from March 8 - May 8, 2021.
Joiri Minaya (b. 1990) is a Dominican-United Statesian multi-disciplinary visual artist based in New York, whose works destabilize historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity.
Born in New York, she grew up in the Dominican Republic, graduating from the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales of Santo Domingo (2009), Altos de Chavón School of Design (2011) and Parsons the New School of Design (2013).
Minaya has participated in numerous residencies such as the International Studio & Curatorial Progarm (ISCP), Silver Arts Projects, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Guttenberg Arts, Smack Mellon, BronxArtSpace, Bronx Museum AIM Program, the NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, Transmedia Lab at MA Scène Nationale, Red Bull House of Art Detroit, Lower East Side Printshop, Art Omi, and Vermont Studio Center.
Minaya has exhibited internationally across the Caribbean and the U.S. She is a recipient of an Artadia grant, a Nancy Graves Foundation Grant, a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grants, Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship, the Great Prize of the XXV Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jimenes, and the Great Prize of the XXVII Biennial at the Museo de Arte Moderno (D.R).
Joiri Minaya, #dominicanwomengooglesearch, 2016, installation view at the Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY. Photo by Stefan Hagen
Joiri Minaya, Container #3, 2017, archival pigment print, 40 x 60 inches
Joiri Minaya, Body of water, 2020, Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper, 11 x 17 inches (150 dpi)
Joiri Minaya, The Cloaking of the statue of Christopher Columbus behind the Bayfront Park Amphitheatre, Miami, Florida, 2019 (photo by Zachary Balber, courtesy of Fringe Projects)
Joiri Minaya, I can wear tropical print now series, 2018, found used shirt, found fabric, paint, 40 x 32 x 3 inches each
Joiri Minaya, Tropticon (inside view), 2018, Aluminum, polycarbonate and perforated vinyl, 12 x 10 x 10 ft, Socrates Sculpture Park
Joiri Minaya, Spandex installation #2 (Tropical Immersion), 2018, Spandex fabric, wood beams, white plastic chairs, 8 x 10 x 15 feet. Courtesy of Red Bull House or Arts, Detroit
Joiri Minaya, Spandex installation #2 (Tropical Immersion), 2018, spandex fabric, wood beams, white plastic chairs, 8 x 10 x 15 ft, Courtesy of Red Bull House or Arts, Detroit
Joiri Minaya, Labadee (production photography), 2017, HD video, sound, 7 min 10 sec.
Joiri Minaya, Tropticon (outside view), 2018, Aluminum, polycarbonate and perforated vinyl, 12 x 10 x 10 ft, Socrates Sculpture Park
Joiri Minaya, Spandex installation #4, Retornando la Mirada, 2019, spandex fabric, wood beams, zipties, 12 x 22 ft. Casa Quien booth at ArteBA Art Fair, courtesy of Casa Quien Gallery photo by Catalina Romero
Joiri Minaya, Container #7, 2020, archival pigment print, 60 x 40 inches