Yanira Collado, Mixed Media Textile Assemblage Collage Painting on Wood Yanira Collado, Miami, 2020

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Yanira Collado (Dominican, American, 1975 )
"Que Ya Estan En El Olvido"
Mixed Media unique fabric and painting assemblage collage … more Yanira Collado (Dominican, American, 1975 )
"Que Ya Estan En El Olvido"
Mixed Media unique fabric and painting assemblage collage on plywood
Textile, clothing and found material on a custom-made frame.
COA signed by the artist on 11/27/2020.
Provenance: Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, where Collado was a resident artist.
DIMENSIONS: H: 30" W: 24"

As a child, Collado traveled between social structures: from Brooklyn, New York where she was born; to the Dominican Republic; to Miami, where her mother worked to become a tailor. Her use of construction materials summons the perception of a displaced personal and public history. She is a Caribbean African American artist with a Feminist leaning. In her practice, Collado displays an awareness of language conveyed through a keen analysis of identity, the latter referenced in her use of reclaimed literary texts and textiles, simultaneously opposed by various construction materials: wood, concrete, masonry brick, iron, and drywall. Materials with inherent geographic histories, processes, and economies imply varying degrees of personalized and public memory.
"My connections are grounded to an alternate imagination: a Caribbean imagination and an alchemic consciousness. The Dominican Republic is a culturally rich country. Our musical narratives, folkloric traditions, oral histories, spiritual and supernatural beliefs are complex and embedded in our everyday life. All these components shaped my perceptions, sensibilities, and life experiences. I am always seeing the world through a Caribbean lens".
Her artist residency fellowships include Bridge Red Art Center, North Miami, FL (2013-present), Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2018), Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL (2019 – present), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation residency in New Orleans, LA (2020). She was awarded a South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship in 2021, and Ellie Creator Grant from Oolite in 2019, first place in the 2013 South Florida Biennial at the Art and Cultural Center/Hollywood, FL, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in 2018. Her work has been featured in group shows around the country including Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL; Storage Project Space, New York, NY; Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL; The Franklin, Chicago, IL; Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; and NOVA University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Collado’s work was pictured in the Artforum Critic’s Pick, accompanying the review of Fragment, a group exhibition at Emerson Dorsch. In 2016, Collado had a one-person exhibit at the Museum of Art + Design at Miami Dade College, in collaboration with Bridge Red Studios. She had solo exhibitions with Dimensions Variable, Under the Bridge and Far Side Gallery in 2018. In 2019, an interview with her and Onajide Shabaka, mediated by Ryan N. Dennis, was published in BOMB Magazine. Her work is in the collections of Perez Art Museum Miami and El Museo del Barrio. Collado lives and works in North Miami, FL.

SELECTED ONE & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022
Areíto/ Allusions of Sacred Geometry and Diaspora, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
2021
Alchemic Chants/ Reliquías Fragmentadas, Emerson Dorsch Gallery,
2018
Penumbras, Under the Bridge Art Space, Miami, FL
Viento brujo, Farside Gallery, Miami, FL
2016
Original Conditions, MDC Museum of Art + Design/Bridge Red Studios, Miami, FL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
Under the Florida Sun: South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Visual and Media Artists, curated by Mikhaile Solomon, Schmidt and Ritter Art Gallery, Florida.
Exhibition Diverse Networks, Curate by Laura Marsh, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL
Performance 4 Ways: MY BODY, MY RULES, Perez Art Museum, Miami, This was an all-female group exhibition confronting the stereotypes, violence, limitations, and ideals imposed on the disputed image of the female body. The contemporary female image narrative through a feminist lens. The exhibition features artworks across all mediums, such as painting, sculpture, photography and video. Artists included Ida Applebroog, Ruth Bernhard, Louise Bourgeois, Patty Chang, Naomi Fisher, Anna Gaskell, Anna Bella Geiger, Andrea Geyer, Frances Goodman, Hayv Kahraman, Lee Materazzi, Ana Mendieta, Wangechi Mutu, Maria Nepomuceno, Marlo Pascual, Christina Quarles, Pipilotti Rist, Zilia Sánchez, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, and Francesca Woodman. Artists Yanira Collado, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, Sandra Vivas, and Poorgrrrl performed there.
Estamos Bien, La Trienal, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Collado/Villarino, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Idioms and Taxonomies, Curated by Laura Marsh, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL
Local Global, Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, Miami, FL
AIM Biennial, Miami, FL
2019
Fragment, Curated by Tyler Emerson Dorsch, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
Penumbras: narrative of presence, Project Row House, Houston, TX
The Other Half of the Sky, Girls Club, For Lauderdale, FL
2018
Penumbras, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
Deconstruction, Frost Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Outlaw Culture: or higher ground, Bridge Red Studios, Miami, FL
Paradise Lost? Alchemy of the everyday, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York
Monarchs, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
2016
Ascent: Black Women’s Expressions, Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2014
MIA_BER, Verein Berliner Kunstler, Berlin, Germany

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Ooilte Arts, Miami, FL
Peréz Art Museum, Miami, FL
Girls Club, Hollywood, FL
Mosquera Family Collection, Miami, FL less