Glendalys Medina

Glendalys Medina's practice focuses on transcending the symbolic systems of language and image by investigating the role they play in forming identity.[1] Medina is currently a professor at SVA’s MFA Art Practice program and lives and works in New York.[2]

Early life and education

Medina is an interdisciplinary artist and received an MFA and BFA from Hunter College and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under to tutelage of Phyllida Barlow and Eva Rothschild.

Career

Medina's work has been presented at such notable venues as PAMM,[3][4] Participant Inc.,[5] Performa 19,[6] Artists Space,[7] The Bronx Museum of Art,[8][9] El Museo del Barrio,[10] The Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, Spain, Smack Mellon[11][12] and The Studio Museum in Harlem[13] among others. Medina was a recipient of a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellowship[14] (2019), an Ace Hotel New York City Artist Residency [15](2017), a SIP fellowship at EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop[16] (2016), a BACK IN FIVE MINUTES[17] artist residency at El Museo Del Barrio (2015), a residency at Yaddo (2014, 2018), the Rome Prize in Visual Arts [18] (2013), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Art (2012), and the Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM residency [19] (2010).

Medina's work was exhibited in the traveling group show The Future is LATINX, which debuted at Eastern Connecticut State University's Art Gallery. Exhibition Coordinator Yulia Tikhonova noted that the exhibition was intended to "draw attention to the rich cultural production of our Latino population as we continue on our path to becoming a 'minority white' nation [...] This community will dramatically change our politics, media, education, and cultural landscape. This is the future our exhibition anticipates."[20] The Future is LATINX was on view at the Eastern Connecticut State University Art Gallery in Windham, Connecticut from October 8 - December 2, 2020.[21] The exhibition traveled to Clark University's Schiltkamp Gallery under the title Latin + American from March 15 – May 9, 2021[22] and Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, Connecticut from August 30 – October 1, 2021.[23] Amezkua showed her work alongside artists Tanya Aguiñiga, Blanka Amezkua, Alicia Grullón, Natalia Nakazawa, Esteban Ramón Pérez, Lina Puerta, Shellyne Rodriguez, Felipe Baeza, Lionel Cruet, David Antonio Cruz, Ramiro Gomez, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Dante Migone-Ojeda, and Vick Quezada.[24] Medina exhibited the piece Ms. Puerto Rico and Mr. Borikén (2019) in The Future is LATINX.[25]

References
  1. "→ PERFORMA • 19". performa19.org. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  2. "Glendalys Medina". MFA Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  3. "Opening Reception and Preview: Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles: An Exhibition About Dominoes". pamm.org. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  4. Opening Reception and Preview: Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles: An Exhibition About Dominoes, retrieved 2020-01-24
  5. "PARTICIPANT INC | The Shank". participantinc.org. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  6. "→ PERFORMA • 19". performa19.org. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  7. Performances by Rajkamal Kahlon and Glendalys Medina, retrieved 2020-01-24
  8. "Bronx Lab: Style Wars - Exhibitions - The Bronx Museum of the Arts". www.bronxmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  9. "Bronx museum explores graffiti's controversial place in history". The Riverdale Press. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  10. "CUT N' MIX: Contemporary Collage | El Museo". Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  11. "I Come To This Place, Journey into an Exhibition". Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  12. "Editors' Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York's Art World This Week". artnet News. 2019-07-15. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  13. "THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM". Wallach Art Gallery | Columbia University. 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  14. "Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships Announced". The Jerome Foundation. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  15. "Free Events Manhattan | Ace Hotel Downtown NYC". www.acehotel.com. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  16. "Glendayls Medina". Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  17. "Back in Five Glendalys Medina | El Museo". Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  18. "2012-13 Rome Prize Winners Announced". American Academy in Rome. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  19. Samuels, Tanyanika (5 July 2011). "AIM of Artist in the Marketplace to Aid Artists With Business of ARt". New York Daily News. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  20. "The FUTURE IS LATINX". Eastern Connecticut State University. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  21. "The FUTURE IS LATINX". Eastern Connecticut State University. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  22. "Exhibition: Latin + American". Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  23. "Art Gallery – Three Rivers Community College". Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  24. "The FUTURE IS LATINX". Eastern Connecticut State University. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  25. "Glendalys Medina". Eastern Connecticut State University. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
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