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).