Edge Zones is very pleased to announce this year’s A.I.R. award recipients are Dominican artists Maldita Vaina and Geraldine Rivera. The Artist Residency Program offers short residencies to selected artists through our international exchange program. This year’s program is to be held from May 8th to May 25, 2022. Each residency varies in length according to the artists’ and the project needs. Generally lasting from one to three weeks. In addition to creating and developing their own work, artists share their creative process at Edge Zones with the public through open rehearsals, workshops, and/or artist talks. This year's artists will collaborate with local artists and participate in a talk with Director, Charo Oquet, and will share details of their art practice.
Join us for Live Talk on Friday, May 20, 2022 - 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM at Edge Zones Art Gallery, 3317 NW 7th Ave. Cir, Miami, FL 33127.
M/P '22
M/P '22
Geraldine Rivera
Multidisciplinary artist, director and fictional character from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Geraldine studied visual communication on Long Island (Farmingdale State College), and then went on to work in NYC as a graphic designer in a fashion and beauty studio for 2 years. She moved to Santo Domingo again in 2017, where She has focused on working on audiovisual projects. Recently (along with her partner Fidel López) she won the audience award at the Centro de la Imagen Biennial 2021. She is currently a freelance creative director, and teaches storytelling and creativity classes at Chavón, La Escuela de Diseño.
Maldita Vaina
Maldita Vaina is a Dominican-Sudanese artist, researcher, DJ, and facilitator who works with sound, movement, and the senses to activate memories. Maldita Vaina likes to combine and recombine rhythms and genres in her mixes to produce soundscapes for transformation. Her sets are high energy and incorporate sounds Afro, Carribean and Black Diaspora featuring Dembow, Palos, Gaga, Gqom. Her research and facilitation practice has taken her to exhibit in Taiwan (2017), Melbourne (2015), Berlin (2013, 2015, 2018), Barcelona (2019), Budapest (2016), San Francisco (2014, 2016), and Toronto (2018). She was a mentor at Madrid's Media Lab Prado in 2019. She had two radio shows as part of WZLY 91.5 FM (2004) in Wellesley, MA and RadioHive (2009-2011) in NYC. She produced an international art and technology conference in NYC from 2013-2015. She teaches mixing and DJ classes for non-heterosexuals in Santo Domingo and Bonao. She currently lives near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in Itabo, Bajos de Haina, San Cristóbal.