Individual
Shows
February 2003 Palabras de Amor, El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, Buffalo, NY
May 2002 Caribe: Mar y Tierra, Puerto Rico Tourism Company, San Juan, P.R.
November 2001 Mare Nostrum, Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY
September 1999 University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, Arecibo, P.R.
December 1998 Café Bohemio, San Juan, P.R.
April 1998 L'Alliance Francaise, San Juan, P.R.
April 1995 Vírgenes Silvestres, unauthorized installation, various locations, P.R.
November 1994 Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Guaynabo, P.R.
April 1994 Vírgenes y Vegigantes, Old Navy Arsenal Museum, ICPR, San Juan, P.R.
November 1993 Phyllis Hall Gallery, Galveston, Texas.
August 1993 Arecibo Museum of Art and History, Arecibo, P.R.
July 1987 The Art League, San Juan, P.R.
January 1987 San Juan Gallery, San Juan, P.R.
Selected
Group Shows
May 2007 Millenia Atlantic University, Doral, FL
December 2004 Brent Sikemma, NY
December 2004 Mystery Masters, Ritz-Carlton (Florida International University), Miami Beach, FL
November 2003 WXXI-TV annual fund raising auction live broadcast, Rochester, NY
September 2003 Artisan Works/Elizabeth Collection, Rochester, NY
Link Gallery, City Hall, Rochester, NY
Seneca Park Zoo, Rochester, NY
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
August 2003 Salon des Refusés, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
July 2003 Gallery 402, Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY
June 2003 The Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
May 2003 The Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
September 2002 Link Gallery, City Hall, Rochester, NY
Seneca Park Zoo, Rochester, NY
January 2002 The Elizabeth Collection, Rochester, NY
High Falls Gallery, Rochester, NY
November 2001 High Falls Gallery, Rochester, NY
September 2001 Seneca Park Zoo, Rochester, NY
June 2001 Museo Francisco Oller y diego Rivera, Buffalo, NY
May 2001 HOP Gallery, Rochester, NY
The Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
January 2001 High Falls Gallery, Rochester, NY
November 2000 High Falls Gallery, Rochester, NY
October 1999 Lang, Lebrón, Montalvo & Sobrino, Arecibo Country Club, Arecibo, P.R.
October 1994 Arecibo Museum of Art and History, Arecibo, P.R.
November 1991 Biennial, Contemporary Art Museum, San Juan, P.R.
September 1991 Old Navy Arsenal Museum, San Juan, P.R.
August 1991 Alternativa Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
August 1989 Alternativa Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
February 1986 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
December 1984 NOW Gallery, New York, NY
May 1984 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
August 1983 Galleria Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy.
June 1981 INTAR Gallery, New York, NY
September 1980 Cayman Gallery, New York, NY
February 1980 Prudential Gallery, Newark, N.J.
Collaborations,
Performances
September 2003 Installation/Performance with choreographer Kate Cushman Walders at store window, Sibley Center Building, Rochester, NY Installation in view until May 2004. A Rochester Contemporary Satellite Exhibition.
September
2003 Performance/Installation with Kate Cushman Walders at ArtWalk
Live! arts festival,
Rochester, NY
May
2003 Designed Storm, an installation for
Teyutahsöáíke's, a performance
choreographed by Kate Cushman Walders, Hochstein School of Music,
Rochester, NY
September
2002 Collaborated with choreographer Juanita Suárez for the
Latina Dance Project, SUNY Brockport, NY Ms. Suárez
projected an image of Alfonsina, by the artist, on the
stage for one of her performances.
February
2001 Designed environment for Sudden Waves, a dance
piece choreographed and performed by Juanita Suárez at the
2001 Diversity Concert, SUNY Brockport, NY
February
2001 Painted Equus Cartographus, a life-size fiberglass
horse, in view of and interacting with the public in a shopping mall
in Rochester, NY
Grants,
Collections, Residencies
Artist-in-Residence, Rochester City School District, Rochester, NY Spring 2004.
New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend Grant, 2002.
Collection of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company.
Fund for the Financing of Cultural Activity Grant, Puerto Rico, 1992.
Collection of the Arecibo Museum of Art and History, Arecibo, P.R.
Artist-in-Residence, La Bergerie, Cannes, France.
Private Collections in the United States and Latin America.
Education
1986 - 1988 Parsons School of Design, New York, N.Y
1985 M.A., Studio Art, New York University, New York, N.Y
1983 NYU at the Institutto d'Architettura, Venice, Italy
1979 B.S., Art Education, New York University, N.Y
1977 NYU in Madrid, Spain
Teaching
and Presentations
April 2004 Lecture, Interdisciplinary Artistic Collaboration. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2000 - 2004 Instructor, Creative Workshop, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
September 1999 Lecture, University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo visiting artist program, Arecibo, P.R.
1997 Adjunct Professor, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Guaynabo, P.R.
1990 Adjunct Professor, José María Vargas University, Caracas, Venezuela.
Professional Experience
1985 - Present Fine Artist. Painter, sculptor and installation artist. Dedicated to the expression of a personal vision through the creation of original works of art. Promotion of and advocacy for the arts through membership in arts organizations, writing, teaching and collaboration with artists of different disciplines.
1990
- 2000 Freelance Designer, San Juan, P.R. Designed
graphics for corporate identity, packaging, store and outdoor signage
and print advertisements for a variety of clients in Mac and PC
platforms. Wrote copy for print and radio ads, press releases. Built
web sites and interactive kiosks for convention booths. Photographed
locations throughout Puerto Rico and developed the first commercially
available collection of screen savers with photographs of Puerto
Rican Landscapes. Designed and built sets for television commercials
broadcast in the local Puerto Rican market.
1988
- 1990 Art Director, Nexus Cinematographic Productions,
Caracas, Venezuela. Directed teams of up to fifteen people in the
areas of scenery, props and wardrobe in this television commercial
production company. Worked closely with the Director from the
earliest stages of project development, creating storyboards and
making presentations to advertising agencies and their clients.
Designed all scenery, built maquettes and supervised the construction
of sets. Oversaw the acquisition of props; devised props when
necessary, including sculpture. Scouted locations for filming and
created special effects and animations.
Media
September 2002 M. in the Water featured on the cover of Engravings Torn From Insomnia, a collection of poems by Argentinean poet Olga Orozco, published by BOA Editions, Ltd., Rochester, NY
May
2002 Cultura Viva, WIPR-TV, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Interview.
July
2001 City weekly, Rochester, NY
June
2001 Horses on Parade, a documentary produced by
WXXI-TV (PBS), Rochester, NY
R•News,
a nightly cable TV news program produced by Time-Warner
Communications in Rochester, NY. Interview.
April
2001 La Voz de Ibero, the newsletter of the Ibero
American Action League, Rochester, NY
October
1998 El Nuevo Día newspaper, Domingo
Sunday Magazine. San Juan, P.R.
August
1998 El Periódico del Norte newspaper, Arecibo,
P.R. Interview.
June
1984 Looking Art, a documentary about Latin American
artists living in New York City, broadcast on WNYC-TV.
Memberships
2003 - 2004 Co-Lead, Arts & Culture Sector, Latino Alliance, Rochester, NY The Latino Alliance is made up of leaders in different areas of the Latino community in Rochester and works to develop partnerships with organizations in the public and private sectors to further the interests of Latinos in the Rochester area.
2002
- 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artists'
Advisory Committee. The Committee is a group of working artists
that advises the Board of Directors on matters of policy; its members
help the Fellowship Panels in their respective disciplines.
2002
NYFA Painters' Fellowship Panel, New York, NY NYFA
panels select the artists who will become Fellows. These artists
receive a cash grant in recognition of their artistic achievement, to
be used as they see fit.
2002
Community Arts Grants Panel, Arts & Cultural
Council, Rochester, NY The panels give grants to non-profit arts
organizations to carry out specific proposals.
2001
Community Arts Grants Panel, Arts & Cultural
Council, Rochester, NY
2000
- 2003 Architectural Review Board, Brighton, New York.
The Board helps uphold good design principles in the buildings and
signs erected or altered within the town of Brighton.
2000
- 2004 The Rochester Contemporary, an arts
organization.
2000
- 2004 Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester.
Mensa,
the High IQ Society