EDUCATION
1973 Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, New York
1970 New School for Social Research, New York, New York
1964 Art Students League, New York, New York
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 La Fiebre del Oro, Museo Ralli Santiago, Santiago, Chile
2013 Impredecible/Unpredictable, Instituto Cervantes, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Portrait of the Artist as an Immigrant or Portrait of an Immigrant as an Artist, Gabarron Foundation, New York, New York
2005 America’s Pastime: Portrait of the Dominican Dream, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
2005 Flight 587 Memorial, commission, Belle Harbor, New York
2000 Siempre Paraíso, Altos de Chavó, and Galería Larrama, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1999 En Esta Casa Trujillo es el Jefe, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey; Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2000); and Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic (2000)
1997 SUNY Rockland Community College, Suffern, New York
1995 Priests: The Spirit and the Flesh, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey
1993 Vienen por las Islas (1493)/ They Come for the Islands (1493), Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
1992 Terra Nostra, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
1992 The Garden, commission, Percent for the Arts and New York City School Construction Authority, P.S. 37, Bronx, New York
1990 Queens 1990, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
1989 Paraíso/Paradise, Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, Florida; and Scott Alan Gallery, New York, New York (1990)
1986 El Paraíso: Desde el Descubrimiento Hasta la Colonización: Cimarrones y Otras Cosas, Boynayel, Galería de Arte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Satellite Gallery at Hostos Community College, Bronx, New York
1984 El Techo de la Ballena, commission, Cartón de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
1983 Corazón, Magia y Terruño, Voluntariado de las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1982 Cayman Gallery, New York, New York
1980 El Retorno, Casa de Teatro, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Satellite Gallery at Hostos Community College, Bronx, New York
1978 Cayman Gallery, New York, New York
1976 Mil Imágenes Plus…, installation, Casa de Teatro, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1975 Casa de Teatro, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1974 Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Recent Acquisitions, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
2018 The Sidewalk of the Americas, Inter-American Development Bank, Mendoza, Argentina
2018 Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti and their Diasporas, BRIC, Brooklyn, New York
2018 Revival: Pattern and Decoration, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
2016 5th Bronx Latin American Art Biennial, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
2016 Resilience: Reclaiming History and the Dominican Diaspora, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC
2016 Tyranny’s Tear: Mending a Dominican Trauma, BronxArtSpace, Bronx, New York
2015 Our America, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; and Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware (2016)
2015 Thinking in Spanish, The Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, New Jersey
2014 Flow: Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art of the Caribbean, Inter-American Development Bank Headquarters, Washington DC
2014 If You Build It, Sugar Hill, New York, New York
2014 Aljira at 30, Dream and Reality, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
2014 Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida; and Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
2014 Caribbean Art at the Crossroads of the World, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
2008 ¡Nos vemos en el play!… Béisbol y Cultura Dominicana, Centro León, Santiago, Dominican Republic
2007 Cardinal Points/Puntos Cardinales: A Survey of Contemporary Latino and Latin American Art from the Spring Nextel Collection, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; and Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas (2008)
2007 Upon Further Review: Looking at Sports in Contemporary Art, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York
2007 Sugar Buzz, Lehman Collage Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
2007 The Players, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York, New York
2006 Merengue! Visual Rhyms/RitmosVisuales, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
2006 This skin I’m in: Contemporary Dominican Art from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
2005 My Island, My Home/ Mi Isla Mi Hogar, The Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, New York
2003 Lfactor, Exit Art, New York , New York
2001 Nexus II, Skoto Gallery, New York , New York
2001 The Political is the Personal: Perspectives from the Latin American Diaspora, The College Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey
1999 XXI Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1998 PostMark International, ArtSpace, New Haven, Connecticut
1998 New York State Biennial, New York State Museum, Albany, New York
1998 Three Caribbean Artists, James Howe Fine Arts Gallery, Kean University, Union, New Jersey
1997 Segundo Festival de Artes Visuales, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1997 Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
1997 Talk Back! The Community Responds to the Permanent Collection, Part II, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
1997 Art in Transit: A Dominican Experience, INTAR Latin American Gallery, New York, New York
1996 Modern and Contemporary Art of the Dominican Republic, Americas Society, New York, New York; and Bass Museum, Miami, Florida
1994 IV Bienal de Pintura, Cuenca, Ecuador; and Cucalón Gallery, New York, New York
1994 Inquisitive Art, The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
1994 Latin American Artists: A Reunion, Vista Gallery, New York, New York
1994 Paper Visions V: A Biennial Exhibition of Works on Paper by Contemporary Latin American Artists, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut
1994 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Artists Talk Back: Visual Conversations With El Museo del Barrio. Part I: Reclaiming History, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
1994 Ponder These Things: An Exhibition of Ten Latino Artists, New York State Museum, Albany, New York
1993 Current Identities: Recent Painting in the United States, Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama City, Panama
1993 Contemporary Public Art in the Bronx, Lehman College, Bronx, New York
1992 Ten From Queens, The Queens Museum of Art at the Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York
1992 Detour: The Americas, International House, New York, New York
1991 Contemporary Caribbean Artists, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
1991 Il Sud Del Mondo: L’Altra Arte Contemporanea, Galleria Civica D’Arte Contemporanea, Marsala, Sicily, Italy
1991 Art Miami 91, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida
1991 Awakening, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut
1989 Latin American Invitational: From Argentina to Miami, Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, Florida Nexus, P.S. 122, New York, New York
1988 Sorpresa! Hispanic Painting and Sculpture, Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, Florida
1988 Art from the African Diaspora: Continuance, Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
1986 Regional: A Hispanic Invitational Art Exhibition, The Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1986 Images of Latin American Culture: Art and Artifacts, Gray Art Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
1986 Homenaje a la Herencia Afro-Latino del Caribe/Part II, Fondo del Sol/Centro de Artes Visuales, Washington DC
1987 America 500, Attitude Art, New York, New York
1987 Adventures in Image Making: Selections from the E.F. Hutton Collection, Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida; and Soho Center For Visual Artists, New York, New York
1987 Expatriates, The Thomas Center Gallery, Gainsville, Florida; The Scarfone Gallery, University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida; and The Polk Museum of the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
1985 Spotlight on New Abstractions, Shippee Gallery, New York, New York
1985 Hispanic Heritage, Oval Gallery, One World Trade Center, New York, New York
1985Works on Paper, Shippee Gallery, New York, New York
1985 Selection: A Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
1985 Workspace, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, New York.
1985 Caribbean Art: African Currents, Goddard- Riverside Community Center, New York, New York; and Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, New York (1987)
1984 Mira! The Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas; and Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, California
1984 Dominican Visual Artists of New York, City Gallery, New York, New York
1984 Hispanic Artists in New York, Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York
1984 Third Latin American Graphics Biennial, Cayman Gallery, New York, New York
1984 XVI Bienal de Artes Plásticas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1984 Latin American Art, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, New Jersey; and Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey
1983 Works on Paper: Second Annual Juried Exhibition, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, New York
1983 13-Uptown, Noel Fine Art, Bronxville, New York
1983 Queens Artist, Ollantay Galley, Queens, New York
1982 Sacred Artifacts, Objects of Devotion, Alternative Museum, New York, New York
1981 The Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
1977 First Latin American Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
1976 Encuentro de Plástica Latinoamericana, Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba
1974 XIII Bienal de Artes Plásticas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1973 Contemporary Reflections, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1973 Contemporary Latin American Painters, Loeb Student Center, New York University, New York, New York
1971 New Images-West Side, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York, New York
1970 Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, New York, New York
AWARDS
2007 Creating a Lasting Record, Joan Mitchell Foundation/Artist Legacy Foundation
2007 Project of the Year for Flight 587 Memorial, CMAA (Construction Management Association of America) Metro NY/NJ Chapter
2005 Excellent in Design for Flight 587 Memorial, Annual Art Commission Awards
2000 Artist as Catalyst 2000, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
1990 Gregory Millard Fellow, New York Foundation for the Arts
1974 Special Award XIII, Bienal de Artes Plásticas Santo Domingo
RESIDENCIES
1992 NYSCA Artist in Residence, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
1985 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey
Museo de las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic