Association for Latin American Art Keynote: Joiri Minaya

Join artist Joiri Minaya for a talk examining the Tropics as a constructed place and identity. As both performer and saboteur, Minaya challenges misrepresentations that reduce tropical geographies and their inhabitants to imagined fantasies of the colonial imagination.

This public talk is the keynote lecture for the Association for Latin American Art Triennial Conference, Reclamations: The Afro-Asian-Native Turn in the Arts of Latin America and is presented in conjunction with hern her current exhibition Joiri Minaya: To Hell With Hibiscus.

Bio
Joiri Minaya is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist who works in photography, digital media, film, performance, sculpture, textiles, and painting. Born in New York and raised in the Dominican Republic, Minaya describes her multiculturally-informed work as “a reassertion of Self, an exercise of unlearning, decolonizing, and exorcizing imposed histories.” Minaya has recently been part of exhibitions and screenings at the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The 8th Floor, and the Syracuse University Art Museum, as well as international exhibitions including the Prospect 6 New Orleans Triennial, the Cooper Hewitt Triennial and the Sharjah Biennial 15. She is a recent recipient of the Latinx Artist Fellowship, NYSCA / NYFA Artist Fellowship, Jerome Hill Fellowship, and Artadia award, and has been an artist in residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, Light Work, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is currently one of the inaugural artists in residence at the Monti Artist Studio Program in Crown Heights.

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Credits
This program is presented in partnership with the Association for Latin American Art Triennial Conference and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities.