Far Away Yet So Close (Muy Lejos Pero Tan Cerca) Artists
Yanira Collado
Yanira Collado lives/works in Miami FL. Education, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Collado's Art Residency and fellowships include the African Heritage Cultural Center, Liberty City, FL 2011-2012 and Bridge Red Art Center North Miami, FL, 2013-present, Joan Mitchell Arts Residency, New Orleans, 2020, Oolites Arts, Miami, Fl, 2019-present, Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas, 2022. She was awarded first place in the 2013 South Florida Biennial at the Art and Cultural Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL and was a recipient of The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, 2018. Collado was selected as an Ellies Creator grantee in 2019 and in 2021 was given a South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship.
Gina De la Rocha Góico
Gina Goico is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and self-proclaimed necia. Through their work, Goico navigates their identity and the spaces where they exist in the Dominican Republic and the United States. Through their career they have come to create a diverse body of work that ranges from embroidery to installations, ink drawings and performance. Goico also facilitates spaces for temporary communities and dialogues around healing in the current status quo. Goico was a Van Lier Fellow and artist in residence with Smack Mellon.
Patricia Encarnación
Patricia Encarnación (she/her) is an Afro-Dominican interdisciplinary artist and scholar. Her work depicts the effects of colonialism on different socio-cultural strata within Afro-diasporic communities with a special focus on the Caribbean and Latin America. Encarnación explores the idea of being from the Caribbean by reconstructing quotidian objects, landscapes, and aesthetics that she was exposed to while growing up in her homeland.
Diana Eusebio
Diana Eusebio is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami, FL. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Fiber. Across Eusebio’s photography, fashion, and textile works, the body, embroidery, and natural dye techniques are tools for storytelling and honoring community. She has exhibited at the MoMa, Hall of Nations, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, and Rubell Museum.
Leslie Gómez-González
Leslie Gomez-Gonzalez (she/they, b.1998, New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working through ceramics, photography, video, sculpture and drawing. Her practice examines daily routines and regulatory acts of bodily care (bathing, menstruation, eating, dressing, etc), exploring the dynamic between the fragility, resilience, and memory of the body.
Working with their own body, as a site and as a given homeostatic system, Leslie explores the cyclical spaces between tension and relief; ultimately seeking to exist within a fluid space that can always be reimagined.
Javier Maria
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.Javier María is a NY-based Dominican artist whose work is focused on mental health, institutionalization, and bureaucracy.
He uses poetry, online forms, photography, and video through the lens of science fiction to generate new narratives as a tool to
visualize new futures and associations. He graduated as a graphic and digital designer from the Altos de Chavón School of Design (2011).
His work has been exhibited at the Centro Leon Biennial, The Wrong Biennial, The Image Center, Altos de Chavón Gallery, Casa Quien and at the NoMAA Gallery in New York. He is currently an artist in residency at Smackmellon.
Manuel Mera
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can makeManuel Mera, born in 1996, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Graduated from the Fine Arts career of the School of Design of Altos de Chavón, Casa de Campo, La Romana, Dominican Republic. With a master's degree in Illustration at BAU School of Design, Barcelona, Spain. He has participated in multiple group exhibitions as well as festivals such as INDEX 2021. Manuel has made a solo exhibition at the National Palace of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo (''Multirealidad"2021). And his most recent exhibition "Pero mo roba Motol" (Santa Barbara, Santo Domingo, June 2022) in collaboration with Danish artist Andreas Blom. all the difference.
Joiri Minaya
Joiri Minaya (1990) is a NY-based Dominican-United Statesian multidisciplinary visual artist. She studied art at the ENAV (DR), the Chavón School of Design, and Parsons.
Minaya has exhibited across the Caribbean, the U.S. and internationally. She recently Received a NYSCA / NYFA Artist Fellowship, a Jerome Hill Fellowship, and a NY Artadia award. She has participated in residencies at Skowhegan, Smack Mellon, Bronx Museum, Red Bull House of Art, LES Printshop, Socrates Sculpture Park, Art Omi, ISCP, Vermont Studio Center, New Wave, Silver Art Projects and Fountainhead.
Raul Morilla
Raul Morilla ,born La Vega, D.R 1972. He graduated from the Francisco Soñé School of Fine Arts in his hometown. He graduated from the UTESA School of Architecture in 1993. He completed his artistic studies taking several workshops at the Altos de Chavón School of Design in La Romana, Dominican Republic, as well as at the Luis Eduardo Workshop in Santiago de Cuba. He completed a diploma in Art History at the Drawing Museum of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2002. Since 2003 he has been a teacher at different study centers.
Charo Oquet
Charo Oquet (Dominican Republic 1952), based in Miami, FL is an inter-disciplinary artist and art organizer her wide-reaching practice includes performance, installation, painting, video, printmaking, ceramic and photography. Her work has been exhibited at international venues including the Pavilion of Contemporary Art (PAC), ICA, Miami, Fl; Italy; Bass Museum of Art, Miami; FL, 1st. Asuncion Biennial, Salazar Museum, Asuncion, Paraguay; Ft. Lauderdale Museum, The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C; The XIII Havana Biennial; The Frost Museum; MoCA N. Miami, Bass Museum, New Zealand National Gallery, Govet-Brewster Art Gallery, NZ, Museo de Arte Moderno, D.R. , Casal Solleric, Spain, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin, Germany, Kunstnerne Hus, Oslo, Norway, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural; UNESCO, Paris, Away, Edsvik Konsthall, Sollentuna, Sweden. Her awards include The Ellies, Miami's Visual Arts Awards 20; Knight Foundation Grant, 2019; The Perez Create; NALAC ’19; MAP Fund.
Iris Perez
Iris Perez Multidisciplinary creator born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she studies at the National School of Visual Arts and the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, she works in the categories of drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installation and performance. With a personal language in her work, she touches on problems that affect society, addressing issues and fighting against social inequality, migration, child abuse, violence, femicide of women and impunity. Her work, at the same time hopeful, raises the importance of protecting nature, coexistence in a world where peace, love, and spiritual health prevail. In 2004, she was selected by the ARTIADE organization to represent the country in the Art Olympics, an event organized on the occasion of the Olympic Games "Athens 2004". Since 2000 she participates in the exhibition Women of the world, with an itinerant route in different museums, galleries and cultural centers Between 2002 and 2005 she directed the public art project Contemporary Actions, with collective projects of murals, performance actions, exhibitions and competitions in Santo Domingo and the interior of the country. She has been selected to represent the country in the IV V and VI Beijing International Art Biennial, at the National Art Museum in Beijing, China, during the years 2010 and 2012 and 2014.
Geraldine Rivera
Geraldine Rivera, 1992, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic. Multidisciplinary artist, director and fictional character. Geraldine studied visual communication on Long Island (Farmingdale State College), and then went on to work in NYC as a graphic designer. He moved to Santo Domingo again in 2017, where he has focused on working on audiovisual projects. She is currently a freelance creative director, and teaches storytelling and creativity at the Chavón school.ay you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Geraldine Rivera, 1992, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic. Multidisciplinary artist, director and fictional character. Geraldine studied visual communication on Long Island (Farmingdale State College), and then went on to work in NYC as a graphic designer. He moved to Santo Domingo again in 2017, where he has focused on working on audiovisual projects. She is currently a freelance creative director, and teaches storytelling and creativity at the Chavón school.
Yelaine Rodriguez
Yelaine Rodriguez (b.1990) is an Afro-DominicanYork artistic scholar, curator, and writer. Rodriguez conceptualizes fiber art, sculptures, and site-specific installations drawing connections between Black cultures in the Caribbean & the United States. She received her BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design | The New School (2013) & her MA in Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Museum Studies from New York University (2021). She is currently an Adjunct Instructor at Parsons Textile (MFA) & NYU Department of Photography & Imaging (DPI). Rodriguez has exhibited in ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21, El Museo del Barrio's (NY) first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art, FotoFocus Biennial, Photoville, Mexic-Arte Museum, American Museum of Natural History, & Wave Hill in the United States, El Centro Cultural de España & Centro León Biennial XXVII in the Dominican Republic, SurGallery & Critical Distance Centre for Curators in Canada, Wereldmuseum in The Netherlands, & La Escocesa in Barcelona, Spain.
Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Alette Simmons-Jiménez (b. Wisconsin) currently lives and works in Miami, Florida. She holds a BFA from Tulane University (1975) and continues experimenting and researching through workshops and residencies such as Creative Capital PDW, Cliniques D'Es Baluard Museum, Mallorca, Spain; Eco-Aesthetics workshop, Oolite Miami; Painting Theory intensive workshop, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Whale & Star/Studio; and Ifitry Résidence D'Artiste, Morocco.
Simmons-Jiménez began her career in the Dominican Republic and maintained a studio practice there for 17 years. She exhibited extensively in Santo Domingo and in La Romana through her ties to Altos de Chavón and La Escuela de Diseño. The artist exhibits nationally and internationall.with recent solo shows at the Miami International Airport Moving Images Gallery, the Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL; Space S/223, Miami Design District; Oolite Arts, Miami Beach; Francis Wolfson Gallery, Miami-Dade College; Inter-American Development Bank Gallery, Washington, DC; Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and Miami-Dade Cultural Resource Gallery.
Limber Vilorio Villanueva
Limber Vilorio Villanueva is a multidisciplinary artist (drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, videoart and installation), architect, educator, production designer & art director for films and cultural manager.
He works and lives in Dominican Republic and Spain. He studied in Santo Domingo where he received his degree from Fine Arts at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (ENBA) in 1993, and Architecture at Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña (UNPHU) in 2000. He has completed additional programs of study in Japan, India, Sweden, Italy and Spain.
His artistic career began when he received first place in the International Drawing Contest in Jerusalem in 1987. His winning artwork became part of the collection of the Museum of Israel in 1988.
For his final year of architectural studies, he developed a piece of work which initiated his urban-artistic focus, “Suit for Walking in Santo Domingo,” which won first place by public vote in the Visual Arts Biennial in Santo Domingo in 1999, later acquired by the Museo del Barrio in 2006.