b. 1984, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Contact: microsismo [at] gmail [dot] com
Education
2016 MFA ‘Studio Art,’ Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2008 BA magna cum laude, ‘Fine Arts and Humanities,’ University of Puerto Rico
(exchange program, School of Fine Arts, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2005)
Artist residencies
2023 YI Artist-in-residence, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2018 Visiting Artist, Flight and Space Exploration Archives, Purdue University, IN
2017 LARA - Latin American Roaming Art, Panama City, PA
2016 Caribbean Linked IV – Ateliers '89, Oranjestad, AW
2014 Taller Vivo – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR
2012 Workspace AIR – The Center for Book Arts of New York, New York, NY
2011 La Práctica – Beta-Local, San Juan, PR
Commissions
2019 Line to Line – MTA Arts & Design “Percent for Art,” Mount Vernon, NY
2014 Agave azul by Irizelma Robles – Illustrations for poetry book, Folium Editores, San Juan, PR
Solo exhibitions / projects
2023 Aerosoles – El Lobi, San Juan, PR - organized by Vanessa Hernandez Gracia
2016 Landings (lift off) – MFA Thesis, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2015 Conduit – Experimental Gallery, Department of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2014 Meteorology – The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA - curated by Laura Roulet
2012 Meteoro – Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR (catalogue) - curated by Elvis Fuentes
Two-person exhibitions / projects
2021 Gallardo/Budoff: Growth, Breadth, and Terrain – Two-person exhibition, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL - Curated by Gisela Carbonell, Ph.D.
2011 Of Dreams and Hurricanes – Two-person exhibition with Maria Berrio, Praxis International Art, Chelsea, NY - Curated by Trinidad Fombella
Group exhibitions / projects
2023
Beyond the Margins, An Exploration of Art and Identity, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT - curated by María del Mar González-González, Ph.D.
Traveling exhibition: Blue Galleries at Boise State University, Boise, ID (August-October, 2023)
Global Perspectives: Highlights from the Contemporary Collection, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Outside: In, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL - curated by Holly Keris
2022
no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane María, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY - curated by Marcela Guerrero - November 23, 2022 - April 22, 2023
Ojos que tienen vista, mirar más allá, Fundación Cortés, San Juan, PR - curated by Gerardo Mosquera
Across the Horizon, El Kilometro, San Juan, PR - curated by Melissa Ramos Borges and El Kilometro
Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water, Simonyi Special Exhibition Galleries, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
2021
Pa.no.ra.ma., Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, DR - curated by Orlando Isaac
Novenario, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR - curated by Lydia Platón Lázaro
The Memory of Water, Galería Ponce + Robles, Madrid, Spain - curated by Susanna Temkin
[…]ENTREFORMAS, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR - curated by Abdiel Segarra
Borimix: El yucayeque de piedra, El Clemente Soto Vélez, New York, NY - co-curated by Melissa Ramos, Irene Estevez, Carlos Ortiz and Miguel Trelles
2020
Terrazo, Iris Marcano & José Hernández Castrodad Collection, El Depósito, Caguas, PR - part of Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña’s La Campechada 2020: Abelardo Díaz Alfaro
Rising Water, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL - curated by Jessica Ingram and Meredith Lynn
Anarquía y dialéctica en el deseo: Mujeres artistas de Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR - curated by Raquel Torres Arzola
2019
Localidad Alterna III: Frances Gallardo & Zaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda, MECANISMOS, Meca Art Fair, San Juan, PR - curated by Sofía Reeser del Río
Nada Tropical, Galería Miscelánea, El Raval, Barcelona - organized by aboutwork.net
Puerto Rico plural, new exhibition of the permanent collection, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, PR - curated by Juan Carlos Quintero
Return to Entry: Interpreting Purdue’s Space Exploration Archives, Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN - curated by Michal Hathaway
One day Pop-up Exhibit: Satellite calling control, no answer, Beta-Local Presents unidentified flying objects, programing for Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction of the Americas, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Whose Vestiges Subsist, LES Gallery, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY - organized by Alva Mooses and Florencia Escudero
Puerto Rico In/Ex, Art Gallery @ GCC, Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA - organized by Ricardo Rodríguez and David John Attyah
2018
Weather, Lines, Video and Tape, Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, DR - curated by Orlando Isaac
Puerto Rico: Defying Darkness, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM - curated by Josie Lopez
PM, Embajada, San Juan, PR - curated by Christopher Rivera
Correspondencia/Correspondence: exposición de arte correo, El Lobi, San Juan, PR - curated by Vanessa Hernández Gracia
Group show, Ana Mas Projects, El Bastion, San Juan, PR
2017
Getty Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA; Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago – Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA - Curated by Tatiana Flores
Traveling exhibition: Wallach Art Gallery; Delaware Art Museum; Portland Museum of Art; Frost Art Museum
En 63M2 – Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, DR - curated by Orlando Isaac
Alternate Locations / Localidades Alternas – MECANISMOS, MECA Art Fair, San Juan, PR - curated by Sofía Reeser del Río
GALLERY Chicago – Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL - curated by Bianca Ortiz-Declet
LARA Residency Exhibition – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panama City, PA - curated by Gerardo Mosquera
Landscape / Horizonte – Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - curated by Nora M. Nieves
Bad Neighbors – Neighbors Gallery, Ithaca, NY - curated by Mara Baldwin
2016
1st International Academic Printmaking Alliance Invitational Exhibition – Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum, Beijing, CN - curated by Nayda Collazo-Llorens
In situ: perspectivas del paisaje en las Grandes Antillas (In Situ: Perspectives of Landscape in the Greater Antilles) – Museo de Arte Dr. Pío López Martínez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey, PR - curated by Mariel Quiñones
Watermark (collaborative project/workshop) – Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
The Winds Never Stop: Caribbean Linked IV Artist-in-Residence Exhibition – Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad, AW
Something Came Over Me: MFA Group Exhibition – Caelum Gallery, Chelsea, NY
Failure – MFA Group Exhibition – Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Caribes: una nueva mirada hacia nuestro Caribe (Caribbean: A New Perspective On Our Caribbean) – Museo de Arte, Caribbean University, Bayamón, PR
2015
Displaced Images / Images in Space: IV Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean – Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR - curated by Alexia Tala, Gerardo Mosquera, Vanessa Hernández Gracia
Then and now: Ten Years of Residencies at The Center for Book Arts of New York – The Center for Book Arts, NY - curated by Alexander Campos
2014
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World – Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL - curated by Elvis Fuentes
Interconexiones: lecturas curatoriales de la colección permanente (Interconnections: Curatorial Readings of the Permanent Collection) – Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR - curated by Juan Carlos Lopez
Prospective: MFA Group Exhibition – Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, NY
CCC: Caribes – Casa Cortés, San Juan, PR (catalogue)
ABC III: Artistas Boricuas Contemporáneos – 20/20 Gallery, Santurce, PR
2013
The Supremacy of Chaos – Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR - curated by Juan Carlos Lopez
2012
The Beehive: III Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean – Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR (catalogue) - curated by Deborah Cullen
Caribe Now: Contemporary Art from the Caribbean Diaspora – (organized by El Museo del Barrio), Nathan Cummings Foundation, NY - curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado
Puerto Rico: puerta al paisaje – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR (catalogue) - curated by Lilliana Ramos-Collado
I'd Still be Puerto Rican Even if Born on the Moon – Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, New York, NY - curated by Miguel Trelles
Muestra Nacional – Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, PR (catalogue)
Esfoto 12 – La Casa Tomada, San Salvador, El Salvador - organized by Walterio Iraheta
2011
For Love, Not Money: IV Tallinn Print Triennial – KUMU Museum, Tallinn, EE (catalogue) - curated by Simon Rees, Eve Kask and Eha Komissarov
Pocket – Cart Watch Gallery, Santurce, PR
2010
Valoarte – Centro Nacional de Cultura, San Jose, CR (catalogue)
National Survey Exhibition – Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR (catalogue)
2009
Lip/stick – Praxis International Art, New York, NY - curated by Elvis Fuentes
II Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean – Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR (catalogue)
2008
Giving, an art action (performance) – El Museo del Barrio, PINTA: Latin American Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY - Curated by Trinidad Fombella
On their marks: painting of the 90's and 00's in Puerto Rico – Universidad de Sagrado Corazón, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR (catalogue) - curated by Rebeca Noriega
Valoarte – Centro Nacional de Cultura, San Jose, CR (catalogue)
Cataño D.C. – CIRCA Art Fair satellite project, Cataño, PR - curated by Abdiel Segarra
Angora Collective 2.08 – (site-specific intervention projects), Caguas, PR
Actions and Experimental Music – Galería 356, San Juan, PR - curated by Vanessa Hernández Gracia
Awards
2018 NYSCA Decentralization “Artist in the Community” Grant, Makerspace Artist-in-Residence, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY
2016 Charles Baskerville Award for Graduate Studies in Fine Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2012 Emerging Artist Award, Lexus with the Arts, San Juan, PR
Nominations
2020 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF), Washington, DC
2018 Emerging Artist Grant, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, FL
2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, New York, NY
2016 Emerging Artist Grant, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, FL
2013 AICA- Puerto Rico Chapter: Best Curatorial Project, Elvis Fuentes, Meteoro, Frances Gallardo, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR
Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, NY, US
MTA Arts & Design, New York, NY, US
The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, US
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, US
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Colección Chocolate Cortés, San Juan, PR
Colección Iris Marcano & José Hernández Castrodad, San Juan, PR
Colección Rizek Cacao, Santo Domingo, DR
Private Collections: Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, BVI, US
Visiting Artist lectures / critiques / presentations / panels
June, 2023, Online dialogue, Virtual Culture and Conversation: artists from Outside: In, Jill Hotchkiss, Debora Moore, and Sarah Ann Weber, moderated by Kim Kuta Dring, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
February, 2023, Online dialogue, Natural Resources and Unnatural Disasters, conversation with Gabriela Salazar, Sofia Gallisa Muriente, Yiyo Tirado Rivera, Javier Orfon, and Gabriella Torres Ferrer, moderated by Yarimar Bonilla, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
October, 2022, Visiting critic, Undergraduate Senior Thesis, co-taught by Keith Obadike, Carl Ostendarp and Paulina Velázquez-Solís, Department of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
April 7, 2022, Virtual roundtable panelist: Our Blue Planet, Joiri Minaya, Carolina Caycedo, Frances Gallardo in conversation with curator Susanna Temkin, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
November 2021, Virtual visit & Artist talk, Rooted & Sovereign: Black and Decolonial Landings, Women’s and Gender Studies, Prof. Tamara T. Butler, Ph.D., College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
October, 2021, Roundtable panelist with Humberto Figueroa, Mari Mater O’neill, Jotham Malavé & Ivelisse Jiménez, in the context of Novenario: “El arte contemporáneo en Puerto Rico y el Caribe: narrativas de muerte, perdida y duelo”, curated by Lydia Platón, PhD., Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR
September, 2021, Artist talk, Gallardo/Budoff: Growth, Breadth and Terrain, Frances Gallardo and Nathan Budoff, moderated by Gisela Carbonell, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL
August, 2021, Online dialogue (Spanish): La abstracción y lo gráfico: Frances Gallardo, Luis Vázquez O’Neill & Nayda Collazo Llorens, 5ta conversación del ciclo de conversaciones virtuales con artistas de […] ENTREFORMAS, moderated by Natalia Viera Salgado, organized by Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
[Link: https://tinyurl.com/vmhwsd9r]
May, 2021, Online dialogue (Spanish): “Variación de la repetición”, conversation with artist/sculptor Frances Rivera, moderated by Margarita Fernández Zavala, organized by Explore Art @ La Liga, Liga de Arte de San Juan, PR
[Link: https://www.facebook.com/exploreartpr/videos/336548281147443]
March 2020, Visiting artist & artist talk, Rising Water, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2019, Visiting critic, Undergraduate Senior Seminar, Department of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
April, 2019, Roundtable panelist on Art + Science: Return to Entry: Interpreting Purdue’s Space Exploration Archives, moderated by Janna Ahrndt with artists Jennifer Scheuer, Michael James Oatman, Frances Gallardo and engineer/NASA Spacesuit designer Amy Ross, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
August, 2018, Roundtable panelist, Puerto Rico: Defying Darkness, moderated by curator Josie Lopez along participants Patrick McGrath Muniz, Ramon Bonilla and Nathan Budoff, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM
May, 2018, Roundtable panelist, Crisis Identity: A Conversation About Puerto Rico, SOHO 20, 56 Bogart St, Brooklyn, NY - Panel Discussion hosted and organized by Mónica Félix
2017, Visiting artist & artist talk, seminar led by Prof. Bill Gaskins, Department of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
August, 2016, Artist talk, Caribbean Linked IV, Black Box, Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad, Aruba
May, 2016, Artist talk, Lucky Sevens Art Salon, El Museo del Barrio, NY
March, 2016, Visiting artist & artist talk, Printmedia Department, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
March, 2014, Roundtable panelist, Taller Vivo: 100 años de Lorenzo Homar, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR
February, 2014, Lecture, Museo y Centro de Estudios Humanísticos, Dra. Josefina Camacho de la Nuez, Universidad el Turabo, Caguas, PR
2013, Artist talk, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (discussion around the exhibition Puerto Rico: Puerta al paisaje, a two venue historical show curated by Lilliana Ramos Collado around the theme of landscape in the island), San Juan, PR
December, 2013, Artist walkthrough, Caribe Now, Nathan Cummings Foundation, NY
2013, Lecture, Department of Art, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Teaching appointments / workshops
Workshop I & II, Ex Libris design, Makerspace, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY, 2018
Workshop, Lecture and Undergraduate Critiques, Department of Print Media, Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University, MI, 2016
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Introduction to Drawing for non-majors [Leslie Brack], Spring), 2016
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Introduction to Drawing, [David Snyder], Fall), 2015
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Introduction to Sculpture [Chris Oliver], Summer), 2015
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Introduction to Printmaking [Gregory Page], Spring), 2015
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Introduction to Printmaking [Elisabeth Haley Meyer], Fall), 2014
Selected bibliography
Coming soon