Joiri Minaya

Joiri Minaya (b.1990) was born in New York, where she lives and works. Her multidisciplinary practice includes photography, film, performance, textiles, sculpture, among others. The artist is inspired by her personal experiences growing up in Dominican Republic and navigating life in the US as a migrant woman. Minaya investigates the woman’s body and the representation of nature alongside constructions of identity, stereotypes, and the prevailing colonial power relations.

Minaya has exhibited internationally across the Caribbean and the U.S. She is a grantee from the Nancy Graves Foundation, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation (Emerging Artist Grant), the Joan Mitchell Foundation (Emerging Artist and Painters and Sculptors Grants), the Great prize and the Audience Award XXV Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jimenes, the Exhibition Prize Centro de la Imagen (D.R.), and the Great Prize of the XXVII Biennial at the Museo de Arte Moderno (D.R).