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2015
Joiri Minaya
Bronx, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Joiri Minaya
Joiri Minaya is a Dominican-American multidisciplinary artist whose recent works focus on destabilizing historical and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity. Minaya studied at the National School of Visual Arts in Santo Domingo (2009), the Altos de Chavón School of Design (2011) and Parsons the New School for Design (2013). She has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Guttenberg Arts, Smack Mellon, the Bronx Museum's AIM Program and NYFA's Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program. Minaya is currently a Senior Artist at the Lower East Side Printshop and an Emerging Artist Fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park. She has received emerging artist grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. Minaya's work is part of the collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Centro León Jimenes in the Dominican Republic.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2018
Emerging Artist Grant, 2015
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My work is a reassertion of the Self, an exercise in unlearning, decolonizing and exorcising imposed histories, cultures and ideas. Moving between the global North and South informs my recent work, shifting my location of the sexed body from domesticity to nature.”
