Nayda Collazo-Llorens, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a visual artist engaged in an interdisciplinary practice incorporating multiple mediums and strategies. In her work, she examines the way we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity, and noise.
Recent projects include the following solo shows: Unmappings, LMAKgallery, New York, NY, 2018; RE_SIGHTINGS, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, 2016; and Debajo de la casa, El Cuadrado Gris, San Juan, PR, 2016. Some of her sitespecific installations include: MACRO2NANO at New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL, 2017; Stranger Land, Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, Kalamazoo, MI, 201416; Pleasure, Fear and the Pursuit of Happiness, Miami Beach Botanical Garden and Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, 2013; Revolú*tion, 3rd Poly/Graphic Triennial, San Juan, PR, 2012; and Reverb, Museo Universitario del Chopo, in Mexico City, 2012. Previous projects include a site-specific installation titled Reverberación at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Juan, PR, 2010; ESCaperucita & Little Flying Hood, a multidisciplinary project produced for the 10th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba, 2009; and Unfolding the Triangle, a series of site-specific installations of which the first installment was at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009-10.
Collazo-Llorens received an MFA from New York University and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She was a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellow in 2012, and a Visiting Fellow at the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in 2014. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art Net, Art US, Art Nexus, Art News, Arte al Día International, BOMBlog, and Newcity, among others. She is represented by LMAKgallery, New York.
Education
MFA Studio Art, New York University, 2002
BFA Printmaking / Graphic Design, Massachusetts College of Art, 1990
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Unmappings, LMAKgallery, NY
Recorded instance plotted movement, Walgreens Windows Project Space, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
2017
Comfortably Numb, Art Gallery, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
2016
Debajo de la Casa, El Cuadrado Gris, San Juan, PR
Frequencies, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
2014
Dis/connect, LMAKprojects, New York, NY
2013
Pleasure, Fear and the Pursuit of Happiness, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, and
the Bass Museum, Miami, FL
2012
An Exercise in Numbness and Other Tales, Richmond Center for Visual Arts,
Kalamazoo, MI
Across Doom Hopes the Guiding Fever, LMAKprojects, NY
2009
ESC, LMAKprojects, New York, NY
2008
Voiceover, MediaNoche, New York, NY
2007
Navigable Zones, Project 4, Washington, DC
Route / Journal, LMAKprojects (Williamsburg), Brooklyn, NY
2006
Mindscapes, Space Other, Boston, MA
Roaming, CSV Cultural Center, New York, NY
2005
Configuraciones, Galería Raíces, San Juan, PR
2003
Simultáneo, Galería Raíces, San Juan, PR
2001
Memoria, Juegos y Códigos, Galería Raíces, San Juan, PR
2000
Tiempo+Consecuencias, Galería de Arte, Universidad del Sagrado Corazon, San
Juan, PR
1997
Arbo-less, Galería Raíces, San Juan, PR
1996
Obra Reciente, Galería Raíces, San Juan, PR
1994
Lluvia, Museo Universitario de Cayey, Cayey, PR and Galería Raíces, San Juan, PR
1993
Paisajes, Centro Europa, San Juan, PR
1992
Fulanos, Galería Raíces, San Juan, PR
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Commiserate Chicago, 2020 New Media Art Festival Exhibition, Media Arts, Data and Design Center, University of Chicago, IL
A Peculiar Proximity to Spritual Mysteries, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA
2019 Waiting for the Garden of Eden, WhiteBox, New York, NY
6th Silk Road International Art Exhibition, Shaanxi Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, Xi’an, China
The Keyboard 1/5, Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
Los 50 anos de la Liga, Museo de San Juan, San Juan, PR
NEXOS, Edición MAB: Diálogo entre obras de la colección permanente del Museo
de Arte de Bayamón y artistas contemporáneas, Museo de Arte de Bayamón,
Bayamón, PR
2018
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago,
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, FL
Un hecho de diferencias, Ana Mas Projects, Barcelona, Spain
Video voces boricuas, Tres50 Espacio Cultural, Chiapas, Mexico
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean
Archipelago, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2nd International Printmaking Alliance Exhibition, Taoxichuan Art Museum,
Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi, China
Expansive Threads, Latino Arts, Inc., Milwaukee, WI
2017-18
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean
Archipelago, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Ida y vuelta: experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño
contemporáneo, Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de
Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PR (catalog)
2017
Museum of the Real and Odd, The Tube Factory, Indianapolis, IN
2016
Papered Stories, LMAKgallery, New York, NY
1st Internation Academic Printmaking Alliance Invitation Exhibition,
Imperial Ancestors Temple Art Museum, Beijing, China
Carte Blanche, aceartinc.,Winnipeg, Canada
Ayotzinapa 43, Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamerica, Universidad
Centroamericana, Managua, Nicaragua
Great Lakes: Image & Word, Grand Valley State University Art Gallery, Allendale,
MI
Interconexiones, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2015
Adaptation, Point, San Salvador, El Salvador
XX Aniversario, Galeria de Arte, Universidad del Sgrado Corazon, San Juan, PR
2014
By the Pleasure of Doing, 20/20, San Juan, PR
Adapte, public interventions, San Salvador, El Salvador
El arte de la instalación: una prehistoria, Museo Casa Blanca, Instituto de Cultura
Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR
Trace+Gestures, Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013
Crossings (w/Patricia Villalobos Echeverría), Point of Contact, Syracuse, NY Trace+Gestures, Graymatter Gallery (Print MKE), Milwaukee, WI; King Family Exhibition Space, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL; CCC: Caribes, Casa Cortés, San Juan, PR
2012
San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial: El Panal/The Hive, Antiguo Arsenal de la
Marina, San Juan, PR (catalogue)
Medios y Ambientes, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Ciudad de Mexico San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial: El Panal/The Hive, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina, San Juan, PR
Project: Lido, New Outdoor Art Installations, Leslie Park Pool, Pittsburgh, PA
CC: Caribes, Casa Cortes, San Juan, PR
2011
Voces y Visiones: Signs, Systems & the City, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Ya se leer: Imagen y texto en el arte latinamericano, Centro de Arte
Contemporaneo Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
Alternations Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
By Chance a video show, 80WSE Gallery, New York
2010
Careos/Relevos, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Selections From Cluster, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
Cluster, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Boundless Discourse, Ramapo College Art Galleries, Mahwah, NJ
Pasiones, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Alejandra, Point of Contact, Syracuse, NY
2009
X Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba
Labyrint 09 – Writings and Observations, Botkyrka Konsthall, Tumba, Sweden
Gestures 13, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Transfer Lounge, SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA & Forja ArteContemporáneo, Valencia,
Spain
Space, Unlimited, Art Museum of the Americas, OAS, Washington DC
Geografía humana, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Other, Other… High Visibility, Nathan Cummings Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
Materialisms, Bowman & Penelec Galleries, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
2008
Beyond a Memorable Fancy, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
En sus marcas, Sala de Artes, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, PR
Episodios & Itinerarios 2: Capítulo Quito, Centro Cultural de la Pontificia
Universidad Católica, Quito, Ecuador
You Are Here, SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA
Zumbido, Centro de Arquitectura y Diseño, Mexico, DF
2007
Between To and From, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Projects by the Puerto Rican Delegation to the IX International Cuenca Biennial,
Galería Raíces, San Juan, PR
Drawings in Multiples and Singular Sculpture, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY
Restos: Estudio Arteológico, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico,
San Juan, PR
50,000 Beds, A Project by Chris Doyle, Artspace, New Haven, CT
12th International Media Art Biennale, National Museum / WRO Art Center,
Wroclaw, Poland
IX Bienal Internacional de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
Artists' Books:Transgression/Excess, Space Other, Boston, MA
Contexto puertorriqueño: del rococó colonial al arte global, Museo de Arte de
Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2006
F(R)icciones, Video-arte Puertorriqueño Vol. 3, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina, San Juan, PR
2005
Link, Philosophy Box, New York, NY
Video Installations by Nayda Collazo-Llorens and Santeri Tuori, Location One,
New York, NY
Rewind… Rewind… Video-arte Puertorriqueño Vol. 1, Antiguo Arsenal de la
Marina, San Juan, PR
Art Noise, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
Video:series, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY
None of the Above: Contemporary Works by Puerto Rican Artists, Museo de Arte
de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Link, Philosophy Box, New York, NY
2004
RT:PR [Road Trip: Puerto Rico] Selected Works, Lemmerman Gallery, New
Jersey City University, NJ
¡Impresionante! Innovative Prints by Contemporary Puerto Rican Artists
International Print Center New York, NY
La Marginal, Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Perú
None of the Above: Contemporary Works by Puerto Rican Artists, Real Art Ways,
Hartford, CT
RT:PR [Road Trip: Puerto Rico], Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City
University, NJ
2003
Libertad y Riesgo, Permanent Collection Part 1, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo,
San Juan, PR
2002
Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York, NY
First Time Out: All Over Again, Center for Visual Art + Culture, Stamford, CT
Metropolis, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
MFA Thesis Exhibition, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York
University, NY
Here & There: Six Artists from San Juan, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX
2001
Here & There: Six Artists from San Juan, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Salón de Instalación Gráfica, Bienal de San Juan, Museo de Las Américas, San
Juan, PR
El Arte Puertorriqueño a Través del Tiempo, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San
Juan, PR
Entre Líneas, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo, RD
2000
Bienal Latinoamericana de Grabado, Museo Nacional de Grabado, Buenos
Aires, Argentina
1999
Art of the New Medium: 12 Electronic Proposals, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
San Juan, PR
V International Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Arts, Gyor, Hungary
1998
Hortt Exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Agart World Print Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1997
Second International Print Triennale - Colour in Graphic Art, Torun, Poland
1995
XI Bienal de San Juan de Grabado Latinoamericano y el Caribe, San Juan, PR
Selected Screenings
2012 New Media 2012: Experimental Video Works from the Global Caribbean,
Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival, Medulla Art Gallery, Trinidad & Tobago
IV Semana de Vídeo Iberoamericano, two venues: Filmoteca de Andalucía and La
Fragua (Belalcázar), Córdoba, Spain
2011 VIDET: Video i Arts, Palma Dotze, Barcelona, Spain
2010 Peter Campus Screenings, British Film Institute Southbank, London, England
Images of Decolonization: Rebel Shadows, 24th NC Latin American Film Festival,
Duke University, Durham, NC
2009 Roaming, II Festival Internacional de Video Arte, Camaguey, Cuba
Amphibian Mode, Optica Festival Gijón 2009, Gijón, Spain
2008 Roaming and Intermittent, Video as Art, screening/panel, Visual Arts Center of
New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2006 Channels V4, video installation & artist talk, Zimmerli Art Museum / Center for
Latino Arts and Culture, Rutgers University, NJ
II Festival Internacional de Videopoesía, screening, Centro Cultural Borges,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005 I Love Art Video, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg, France
Loop Video Art Festival 05, Barcelona, Spain
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SELECTED INTERVENTIONS
2014-16 Stranger Land, site-specific textual intervention at the Arcus Center for Social
Justice Leadership, Kalamzoo College, Kalamasoo, MI
2014 Postcards from Puerto Rico: La Pina Esta Bien agria, public intervention (shopdropped
postcards), San Juan PR
La Pina Esta Bien Agria, public intervention/action for ADAPTE, San Salvador,
El Salvador
2013 Pleasure, Fear and the Pursuit of Happiness, public textual intervention at the
Miami Beach Botanical Garden and the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
2010 Bokeh, site-specific visual in a publication, Point of Contact, No 1-2 Vol. 10
Syracuse University Press
2008 Voiceover, storefront window projection, MediaNoche, New York, NY
Roaming, storefront window projection, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s First Night, 922
Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
Ellipsis, storefront window projection, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 Interference, site-specific textual intervention in a publication, commissioned for
Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social,
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Visible/Invisible Journeys, intervention, Museum Mile, El Museo del Barrio, NY
2004 Peekskill Project, site-specific event, Peekskill, NY
2003 10 abril 03, public intervention, projection on storefront window, Galería Raíces,
San Juan, PR
2002 Conversación / Dog, temporary intervention commissioned by AT&T, Museo de
Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
1999 Tiempo, public intervention, outdoor projection, San Juan, PR
PUBLIC ART
2010 Onda, permanent public project in collaboration with Toro Ferrer Architects,
Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
SELECTED GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2012 Grant, Pollack-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
Grant, Kalamazoo Artist Devlopment Initiative, Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo,
Kalamazoo, MI
2010 Artist in Residence, Taller Vivo: DocMAC, Residency, Museo de Arte
Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Grant, Oficina Apoyo a las Artes y al Quehacer Cultural, Instituto de Cultura
Puertorriqueña & National Endowment for the Arts, San Juan, PR
2009 Greater Pittsburgh Artist Opportunity Grant, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council,
Pittsburgh, PA
Grant, University Senate Research Committee Award, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
2006 Grant, the Urban Artist Initiative, New York, NY
2005 Artist in Residence (2004-2005), Location One, New York, NY
2004 Award, Best Show of Year 2003 in a Commercial Gallery, Association of Art Critics,
PR Chapter, San Juan, PR
2002 Award, V Certamen Nacional, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR
Award, Best Show of Year 2001 in a Commercial Gallery, Association of Art Critics,
PR Chapter, San Juan, PR
Award, Jack Goodman Award for Art and Technology, New York University, NY
2001 Award, Bienal Arte Joven, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
2000 Artist in Residence, Harvestworks Media Arts Center, New York, NY
Grant, WorldStudio Foundation, New York, NY
Grant, Fondo Nacional para el Financiamiento del Quehacer Cultural, ICP, San
Juan, PR
Grant, Programa de Subvención Básica, ICP & National Endowment for the Arts,
San Juan, PR
1999 Award, Bienal Arte Joven, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico