Joiri Minaya

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

Joiri Minaya
Artist Joiri Minaya at Black Lunch Table x Skowhegan Block Party 2021. Photo by Kay Hickman.
Born1990 (age 31–32)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma materEscuela Nacional de Artes Visuales,
Altos de Chavón School of Design,
Parsons School of Design

Early life and education

Joiri Minaya was born in 1990 in New York City, New York.[1][3][4] 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

Joiri 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.[5][6]

Minaya has done a variety of installation based pieces, many of which focus on patterns, textiles and their cultural implications.[7] Containers (2015) is a photography and performance art piece, first performed in Socrates Sculpture Park in 2016.[8] The work included women dressed in spandex body suits with a bright tropical print.[8] #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.[9] Each component was enlarged, printed, and hung up along with silhouettes created with tropical patterns.[9]

Minaya also works with sculpture: Perteneciente (Belonging) (2013) contains two female busts, which are connected by a thick braid of hair.[10] 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.[11]

Exhibitions

This is a select list of notable exhibitions by Minaya.

Solo exhibitions
  • 2015 Doméstica Foránea, Centro de la Imagen, Santo Domingo, R.D.[12]
  • 2016 #dominicanwomengooglesearch, Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, U.S.[13]
  • 2016 Uncatered (solo show), Guttenberg Arts, NJ, U.S.[14]
  • 2016 Redecode: a tropical theme is a great way to create a fresh, peaceful, relaxing atmosphere, El Museo del Barrio, NY, U.S.[15]

Group exhibitions
  • 2016 Art + Crush: Elliot Jerome Brown Jr., Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD, U.S.[16]
  • 2016 Pulse / Trigger, Sine Gallery, Newark, NJ, U.S.[17]
  • 2016 20th Anniversary Show, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.[18]
  • 2016 Intro, Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, D.R.[19]
  • 2016 Living in My Skin, Río III Gallery, Broadway Housing Communities, NY, U.S.
  • 2016 Samsøñ Gallery selection of works for NADA Art Fair, NY, U.S.[20]
  • 2016 Gloria, Casa Quien, Santo Domingo, D.R.[21]
  • 2016 Remix en Caraïbe at Tropiques Atrium, Fort-de-France, Martinique.[22]

Awards
  • 2013 Exhibition Prize 2014, Centro de la Imagen, Santo Domingo, R.D.[23]
  • 2013 Great Prize XXVII Bienal de Artes Visuales, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, R.D.[24]
  • 2014 Great Prize XXV Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jimenes, Centro León, Santiago, D.R.[24]
  • 2015 Audience Award, XXV Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jimenes, Centro León, Santiago, D.R.[25]
  • 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant[26]
  • 2016 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant[27]

References
  1. "Joiri Minaya". Riverside Park Conservancy. Retrieved October 29, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "Bio – Joiri Minaya". joiriminaya.com. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  3. "Artist Profile: Joiri Minaya". Socrates Sculpture Park. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  4. "Joiri Minaya: Divergences". Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. September 9, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  5. Thomas, Alexandra M. (September 29, 2020). "Joiri Minaya Isn't Here to Entertain Your Tropical Fantasies". Hyperallergic. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  6. Lluveras, Lauren (December 19, 2019). "Joiri Minaya's Tropical-Inflected Critiques of Colonialism". Hyperallergic. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  7. "Joiri Minaya". joiriminaya.com. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  8. "Wearing Camouflage as an Allegory for Otherness and Belonging". Hyperallergic. March 21, 2018. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  9. Sandoval, Martha. "Interview with Joiri Minaya". Baxterst.org. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  10. Daniels, Blake. "Form(ing) History". Arcthemagazine.com. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  11. "Socrates Sculpture Park". socratessculpturepark.org. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  12. "Centro de la Imagen presents 'Doméstica Foránea' by Joiri Minaya". arcthemagazine.com. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  13. "Disrupting the Tropical Romance". wavehill.org. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  14. ""Uncatered" Joiri Minaya Exhibition". Guttenberg Arts. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  15. "JOIRI MINAYA REDECODE | El Museo". Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  16. "a r t + c r u s h: Elliott J. Brown Jr". platform-gallery. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  17. "Pulse/Trigger Installation". Sine Gallery. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  18. "20th Anniversary Show". Smack Mellon. November 12, 2016. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  19. "Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo / Intro". Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo / Frances Gallardo. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  20. "Artists". samsonprojects.com. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  21. "Gloria | Casa Quien | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  22. aicasc, Posté par (May 14, 2016). "Remix en Caraïbe 2016". Aica Caraïbe du Sud (in French). Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  23. "HARD WORK 1: Joiri Minaya / Marisa Williamson". Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  24. "Joiri Minaya". Red Bull Arts Detroit. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  25. "XXV Eduardo León Jimenes Art Contest Awards and Exhibition". arcthemagazine.com. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  26. Foundation, Joan Mitchell. "Artist Programs " Artist Grants". joanmitchellfoundation.org. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  27. "Announcing the 2016 Emerging Artist Grantees in New York – Rema Hort Mann Foundation". Retrieved March 25, 2019.
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