Joiri Minaya

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Joiri Minaya
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Artist Joiri Minaya at Black Lunch Table x Skowhegan Block Party 2021
Born1990 (age 34–35)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma materEscuela Nacional de Artes Visuales,
Altos de Chavón School of Design,
Parsons School of Design

Joiri Minaya (born 1990) [1] is an American multidisciplinary artist of Dominican-descent. [2] [3] She works with digital media, photography, film, performance, sculpture, textiles and painting. [4] Minaya is based in New York City.

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Early life and education

Joiri Minaya was born in 1990 in New York City, New York. [1] [5] [6] She was raised in the Dominican Republic. Minaya graduated from the National School of Visual Arts of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic (2009), the Altos de Chavón School of Design (2011) and Parsons School of Design (2013). [1]

Art

Minaya's artwork is inspired by her life experience growing up in the Dominican Republic, as well as living and navigating the United States. She explores ideas of identity, in context of colonialism and stereotypes. [7] [8]

Minaya has done a variety of installation-based pieces, many of which focus on patterns, textiles and their cultural implications. [9] Containers (2015) is a photography and performance art piece, first performed in Socrates Sculpture Park in 2016. [10] The work included women dressed in spandex body suits with a bright tropical print. [10] #dominicanwomengooglesearch (2016) was a hanging sculptural piece in which Minaya took images from the results of the Google Search "Dominican women", and edited them with Photoshop. [11] Each component was enlarged, printed, and hung up along with silhouettes created with tropical patterns. [11]

Minaya also works with sculpture: Perteneciente (Belonging) (2013) contains two female busts, which are connected by a thick braid of hair. [12] A more recent work is Tropticon (2018), a greenhouse in Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island, New York. The outer walls of the greenhouse are covered with images of pixelated tropical plants. [13]

Minaya was featured on Art21's series New York Close Up in 2023. [14] She created a commissioned installation for Prospect 6 in 2024 titled The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home at the New Orleans African American Museum (NOAAM), in the historic Tremé neighbor. [15]

In 2025, Joiri Minaya's work is included in Narratives in Focus: Selections from PAMM's Collection, a photography exhibition featuring a constellation of artworks from the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida. [16]

Exhibitions

This is a select list of notable exhibitions by Minaya.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Joiri Minaya". Riverside Park Conservancy. Archived from the original on September 23, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  2. ↑ Editorial, Artsy (July 19, 2022). "The Artsy Collector Spotlight: Mickalene Thomas". Artsy. Archived from the original on December 10, 2022. Retrieved December 10, 2022.
  3. ↑ Mezzapelle, Lorenza (September 24, 2019). "Reclaiming cultural identity through decoloniality". The Concordian. Archived from the original on December 10, 2022. Retrieved December 10, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Bio – Joiri Minaya". joiriminaya.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Artist Profile: Joiri Minaya". Socrates Sculpture Park. Archived from the original on October 29, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Joiri Minaya: Divergences". Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. September 9, 2020. Archived from the original on October 29, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  7. ↑ Thomas, Alexandra M. (September 29, 2020). "Joiri Minaya Isn't Here to Entertain Your Tropical Fantasies". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  8. ↑ Lluveras, Lauren (December 19, 2019). "Joiri Minaya's Tropical-Inflected Critiques of Colonialism". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on October 22, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Joiri Minaya". joiriminaya.com. Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  10. 1 2 "Wearing Camouflage as an Allegory for Otherness and Belonging". Hyperallergic. March 21, 2018. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  11. 1 2 Sandoval, Martha. "Interview with Joiri Minaya". Baxterst.org. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  12. ↑ Daniels, Blake. "Form(ing) History". Arcthemagazine.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Socrates Sculpture Park". socratessculpturepark.org. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  14. ↑ "Joiri Minaya". Art21. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
  15. 1 2 "Prospect-6 | Joiri Minaya". www.prospect6.org. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  16. 1 2 "Narratives in Focus: Selections from PAMM's Collection • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  17. ↑ "Centro de la Imagen presents 'Doméstica Foránea' by Joiri Minaya". arcthemagazine.com. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  18. ↑ "Disrupting the Tropical Romance". wavehill.org. Archived from the original on August 10, 2018. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  19. ↑ ""Uncatered" Joiri Minaya Exhibition". Guttenberg Arts. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  20. ↑ "JOIRI MINAYA REDECODE | El Museo". Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  21. ↑ "Joiri Minaya: Labadee – Blanton Museum of Art". blantonmuseum.org. Retrieved June 2, 2023.
  22. ↑ "a r t + c r u s h: Elliott J. Brown Jr". platform-gallery. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  23. ↑ "Pulse/Trigger Installation". Sine Gallery. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  24. ↑ "20th Anniversary Show". Smack Mellon. November 12, 2016. Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  25. ↑ "Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo / Intro". Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo / Frances Gallardo. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  26. ↑ "Artists". samsonprojects.com. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  27. ↑ "Gloria | Casa Quien | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  28. ↑ aicasc, Posté par (May 14, 2016). "Remix en Caraïbe 2016". Aica Caraïbe du Sud (in French). Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  29. ↑ "HARD WORK 1: Joiri Minaya / Marisa Williamson". Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  30. 1 2 "Joiri Minaya". Red Bull Arts Detroit. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  31. ↑ "XXV Eduardo León Jimenes Art Contest Awards and Exhibition". arcthemagazine.com. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  32. ↑ Foundation, Joan Mitchell. "Artist Programs " Artist Grants". joanmitchellfoundation.org. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  33. ↑ "Announcing the 2016 Emerging Artist Grantees in New York – Rema Hort Mann Foundation". Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
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