Quisqueya Henríquez

Quisqueya Henríquez (born 1966) is a Cuban-born Dominican Republic multidisciplinary contemporary artist.[1][2] She works in the mediums of sculpture, photography, sound art, installation art, video art, and collage.[1][3][4] Henríquez has been included in many international exhibitions and biennials.[5]

Quisqueya Henríquez
Born1966 (age 56–57)
Havana, Cuba
Other namesQuisqueya Henriquez
EducationUniversidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo,
Instituto Superior de Arte
MovementConceptual art

Biography

Quisqueya Henríquez was born in 1966 in Havana, Cuba, and has lived in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic since she was a child.[1] She studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (Autonomous University of Santo Domingo; UASD); and studied from 1987 to 1992 at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana.[1]

She emerged as an avant-garde in the late-1980s.[5] Henríquez's work addresses issues such as conventions of race, ethnicity, and gender encountered in Caribbean and Latin cultures. Her notable performance work include "De él Helado de agua de mar Caribe" (2002), where ice cream was made with Caribbean sea water (a fundamental ingredient to the work), whey, rum, coconut oil, blue color and stabilizers.[6]

In 2007, Bronx Museum of the Arts held the mid-career survey exhibition of her work titled, "Quisqueya Henríquez: The World Outside: A Survey Exhibition 1991–2007",[3][7] which travelled in 2008 to the Miami Art Museum (now Pérez Art Museum Miami).[8][9] The survey commented on Latin American modernist art and its relation to European traditional art historical movements and featured sculpture, installations, collage, and video.[3]

Her work can be found in museum and public collections including the El Museo del Barrio in New York City, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami in Miami, Florida;[10] the Pérez Art Museum Miami in Miami, Florida; Ninart Centro de Cultura in Mexico City, Mexico;[10] and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Rhode Island.[11]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • Artists Space, New York City, New York;[5]
  • the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;[5]
  • Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico;[5]
  • The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland[5]
  • "Quisqueya Henriquez: Intertextualidad" (2006), David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida[12]
  • "Quisqueya Henríquez The World Outside: A Survey Exhibition 1991–2007" (2007–2008, traveling), Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City, New York,[7] and the Miami Art Museum (now Pérez Art Museum Miami)[8][9]

Group exhibitions

References
  1. Quiñones, Alfonso (2008-06-27). "Quisqueya Henríquez, entre los 25 artistas más influyentes del mundo". Diario Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  2. Behar, Ruth (2015-11-06). Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba. University of Michigan Press. p. 421. ISBN 978-0-472-03663-9.
  3. Johnson, Ken (2007-10-26). "Minding the Gap Between Rarefied and Local Art Culture". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  4. Roberts, Caroline; Brereton, Richard (2011-09-05). Cut & Paste: 21st-Century Collage. Orion. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-78067-501-5.
  5. "Quisqueya Henriquez: The World Outside at The Bronx Museum of the Arts". Artdaily.cc. August 31, 2007. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  6. "Quisqueya Henríquez: Helado de agua de mar Caribe". C& América Latina (in Spanish). January 2021. Archived from the original on 2023-09-06. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  7. Genocchio, Benjamin (2007-10-28). "Enthusiasm for Rubbish That Avoids Clichés". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  8. "Miami Art Museum Presents Cuban-Dominican Artist Quisqueya Henriquez". Artdaily.cc. March 15, 2008. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  9. Suarez De Jesus, Carlos; Hurst, Steph; Mills, Michael (July 10, 2008). "Art Capsules". Miami New Times. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  10. "1997-98 Henríquez, Quisqueya". cintasfoundation.org. 1997. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  11. "Helado hecho de agua de Mar Caribe (Ice Cream Made from Water from the [Caribbean] Sea)". RISD Museum. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  12. "Henriquez, Quisqueya. (b. Havana, Cuba, 1966; active Santo Domingo, Rep. Dominica, 2014)". African American Visual Artists Database (AAVAD). 2006. Archived from the original on February 27, 2021.
  13. Island Nations: New Art from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Diaspora. RISD Museum. 2004.
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