Untitled Miami: Juan José Barboza-Gubo & Joiri Minaya

December 5 – 10, 2023

Praise Shadows Art Gallery is looking forward to presenting a two-person booth by Peruvian, Boston based artist, Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Joiri Minaya, Dominican artist based in New York City, at Untitled Miami 2023, Booth B10.

 

Opening Preview
Tuesday, December 5, 12pm – 7pm

General Admission
Wednesday, December 6 – Saturday, December 9, 11am – 7pm
Sunday, December 10, 11am – 5pm.

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  • About the artists

  • Joiri Minaya (1990) is a Dominican-United Statesian multidisciplinary artist whose recent works focus on destabilizing historic and contemporary representations of...
    Joiri Minaya (1990) is a Dominican-United Statesian multidisciplinary artist whose recent works focus on destabilizing historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity. Minaya attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales in Santo Domingo (2009), Altos de Chavón School of Design (2011) and Parsons the New School for Design (2013). She has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Guttenberg Arts, Smack Mellon, the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program and the NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, Red Bull House of Art, the Lower East Side Printshop, ISCP, Art Omi, Vermont Studio Center, New Wave, Silver Art Projects and Fountainhead. She has received awards, fellowships and grants from NYSCA / NYFA, Jerome Hill, Artadia, the BRIC’s Colene Brown Art Prize, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Nancy Graves Foundation, amongst other organizations. Minaya’s work is in the collections of the Santo Domingo Museo de Arte Moderno, the Centro León Jiménes, the Kemper Museum, El Museo del Barrio and several private collections. Minaya's work is currently in group exhibition Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility at the Guggenheim, New York. 
     
    "My work is a reassertion of Self, an exercise of unlearning, decolonizing and exorcizing imposed histories, cultures and ideas. It’s about reconciling the experience of having grown up in the Dominican Republic with living and navigating the U.S. / global North; using gaps, disconnections and misinterpretations as fertile ground for creativity. I’ve learned there is a Gaze thrust upon me which others me. I turn it upon itself, mainly by seeming to fulfill its expectations, but instead sabotaging them, thus regaining power and agency. Inter-disciplinarily, I explore the performativity of tropical identity as product: the performance of labor, decoration, beauty, leisure, service." — Joiri Minaya

  • Works on View

    • Joiri Minaya Shield, 2022
      Joiri Minaya
      Shield, 2022
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    • Joiri Minaya Wake, 2022
      Joiri Minaya
      Wake, 2022
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    • Joiri Minaya Shedding II (Los Tres Ojos), 2022
      Joiri Minaya
      Shedding II (Los Tres Ojos), 2022
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    • Joiri Minaya Body Imprint II/ Body Smudge II, 2019
      Joiri Minaya
      Body Imprint II/ Body Smudge II, 2019
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  • Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo (Peru, 1976) received his Bachelor’s Degree at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (graduating with honors). He received...
    Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo (Peru, 1976) received his Bachelor’s Degree at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (graduating with honors). He received MFA degrees in Painting and in Sculpture, both from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Solo exhibitions include: Museum of Contemporary Art, Peru; Memory Museum, Peru; The Museum of Sex, New York; Inter Kultur Foto Art; Instituto Francés de Stuttgart; Museo Colonia Bogota Colombia; Galeria German Kruger Espantoso ICPNA-Peru; The Fitchburg Museum; among others. Recent awards of note include the 2019 Fellowship in Photography from the Mass Cultural Council, 2019 Icpna arte contemporaneo second award, 2018 Photolucida Critical Mass: Top 50, 2016 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, 2015 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Painting, and others. In 2014 he was named the Breakout Artist of the Year by Artscope Magazine. His exhibitions have been reviewed in publications such as The Boston Globe, Artscope Magazine, Artsy, PRI’s The World, The Huffington Post, The Advocate, The Houston Press, El Comercio (Peru), and Lenscratch. Barboza-Gubo currently teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and was awarded the 2023 Boston Artadia Award.
    • Juan José Barboza-Gubo DIA-TARDE-NOCHE-DIA, 2022
      Juan José Barboza-Gubo
      DIA-TARDE-NOCHE-DIA, 2022
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    • Juan José Barboza-Gubo Tu Dices Rara, Yo Le Digo Misteriosa, 2022
      Juan José Barboza-Gubo
      Tu Dices Rara, Yo Le Digo Misteriosa, 2022
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    • Juan José Barboza-Gubo De mi alma al Rio, 2020
      Juan José Barboza-Gubo
      De mi alma al Rio, 2020
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    • Juan José Barboza-Gubo Sensorial Primario 3, 2022
      Juan José Barboza-Gubo
      Sensorial Primario 3, 2022
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    • Juan José Barboza-Gubo Hojas 2, 2022
      Juan José Barboza-Gubo
      Hojas 2, 2022
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    • Juan José Barboza-Gubo Hojas 1, 2022
      Juan José Barboza-Gubo
      Hojas 1, 2022
    • Juan José Barboza-Gubo Sensorial Primario 2, 2022
      Juan José Barboza-Gubo
      Sensorial Primario 2, 2022
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    • Juan José Barboza-Gubo Sensorial Primario 1, 2022
      Juan José Barboza-Gubo
      Sensorial Primario 1, 2022
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