My artistic practice examines the landscape and the cultural forms through which postcolonialism & colonial present constructs hybrid systems of domination in Caribbean territories, particularly in Puerto Rico. I explore the material, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape landscape representation within the region’s tourism economy. I work with multiple languages —including abstraction, installation, photography, painting, and sculpture— selecting materials and media that strengthen and amplify the ideas at the core of each project. My work is grounded in the critical deconstruction of aesthetic regimes tied to architecture and construction, the tourism industry, and the management of the landscape as a paradisiacal image.
Lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
EDUCATION
2015 — Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concentration in Graphic Design, School of Fine Arts of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2015 — Online Course: Introduction to Curatorship, Node Center, Berlin, Germany.
2008–2010 — University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Puerto Rico.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 — OCASO, Walter Otero Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2021 — Tropical Blizz Ball Sale, Recinto Cerra, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2020 — Caribe Hostil, El Lobi, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2018 — Dislocaciones, Galería Delta de Picó, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2017 — Caribbean Blues, Mana Contemporary, Miami, Florida.
2017 — La Cerra (El MAC en el Barrio), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2016 — Hipervisibilidad del paisaje, Proyecto Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 — Cartografías de lo Efímero, with Lucas Pereira, Mahara & Co. Gallery, Miami, Florida.
2024 — HORA CARIBE, with Charlie Quezada, Andrew Freedman Home, New York, New York.
2020 — La Historia de la Repetición, with Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2019 — Doble Vara, with Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Casa Quién, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 — Territorios: Esplendor, Réquiem y Futuro, curated by Diana Cuéllar Ledesma, Fundación Cortés, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2025 — Tráfico de Influencias, El Kilómetro Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2025 — MAC en el Barrio, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2025 — ENTRE RUINAS, curated by Mercedes Trelles, Museo de Arte y Diseño de Miramar, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2025 — Caribbean Yet to Come, curated by Arnaldo Rodríguez Bagué, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2025 — All That Remains, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and CJ Chueca, Sugar Hill Museum, New York, New York.
2025 — X Factor, curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida.
2024 — Tropical is Political, curated by Marina Reyes Franco, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts.
2024 — Gracias por Estar Aquí, Sagrada Mercancía Galería, Santiago, Chile.
2023–2024 — Guest Relations, curated by Murtaza Vali, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
2023 — Servicio a Domicilio, curated by Héctor Madera, Adhesivo Contemporary, Mexico City, Mexico.
2023 — Multitudes, Walter Otero Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2023 — Tropical is Political, curated by Marina Reyes Franco, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2023 — Once Upon a Time, El Kilómetro Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2022 — no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane María, curated by Marcela Guerrero, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
2022 — Give Away, curated by Embajada, Proxyco Gallery, New York, New York.
2022 — Tropical is Political, curated by Marina Reyes Franco, Americas Society, New York, New York.
2021 — Constant Storm, curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida.
2021 — Entreoformas, curated by Abdiel Segarra, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2021 — Sabor & Control, curated by Iván Sikic, Vantage Projects, Vancouver, Canada.
2020 — JUNTXS, curated by Dianne Brass Feliciano, Museo de Arte y Diseño de Miramar, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2019 — Siempre NEW, curated by Violeta Mansilla, Los Angeles, California.
2018 — Unidad mínima, Galería El Dorado, Bogotá, Colombia.
2018 — Cadena with Sagrada Mercancía, curated by Carolina Castro, Feria Ch.ACO, Santiago, Chile.
2018 — JUANNIO 2018, curated by Alexia Tala, Claire Breukel and Jesús Camará, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2018 — Contrafuerza, with Km 0.2, Art Lima, Lima, Peru.
2018 — PAPI, Lagos, Mexico City, Mexico.
2017 — Degradaciones, curated by Carolina Castro, Feria Ch.ACO, Santiago, Chile.
2017 — Popper, UV Studios, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2017 — Arte en concreto, Lo concreto en el arte, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2017 — Iso/trópicos, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, MECA Art Fair, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2016 — Open Study, Km 0.2, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2026 — UBS Acquisition Prize, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2025 — MASS MoCA Artist Residency, North Adams, Massachusetts.
2024 — Andrew Freedman Home Residency, New York, New York.
2024 — NADA x UKS Residency, Oslo, Norway.
2022–Present — Centro de Economía Creativa Artist Grant, Mellon Foundation, Puerto Rico.
2019 — La Residencia, Casa Quién, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2017–2018 — La Práctica Grant, Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2017 — Residency, Mana Contemporary, Miami, Florida.
2017 — MECA Art Fair Residency Award, Mana Contemporary, Miami, Florida.
2015 — First Prize, Fine Arts Printmaking, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2015 — First Prize in Engraving, SIPS 15 (Student International Small Print Show), Minia University, Cairo, Egypt.
2014 — Second Place in Engraving, Doral Art Fest, Miami, Florida.
2013 — Savoir-Faire / Fabriano Materials Prize, Boston Biennial Printmakers, Boston, Massachusetts.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2015–Present — Co-Founder and Co-Director, El Kilómetro, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2016–Present — Exhibition Designer, Museo de Arte y Diseño de Miramar, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2026 — Duo Exhibition with Lucas Estevez, Mahara & Co., Santiago, Chile.
2026 — Group Exhibition, Leyendecker Gallery, Tenerife, Spain.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & PRESS
2024 — Guest Relations and the Touristification of the Global South, Frieze.
2024 — MutualArt Artist Profile, MutualArt.
2023 — “An Ambitious Whitney Exhibition Charts Puerto Rican Artists’ Resilience Following Hurricane Maria,” ARTnews, Maximiliano Durón.
2022 — No existe un mundo poshuracán, exhibition catalog, Whitney Museum of American Art.
2022 — Review by Holland Cotter, The New York Times.
2021 — Documento, Art Viewer.
2020 — Caribe Hostil, Artishock.
2020 — Caribe Hostil, Terremoto.
2018 — “Tropical Depression,” Marina Reyes Franco, Art in America.
2018 — “Dislocaciones,” César Vargas, Artishock.