Bio
CV
Yanira Collado
b. 1975 Brooklyn, NY
Lives/works in Miami, FL
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025
Residual Elements/Meditationes sobre lo fragmentado, Centre Clark, Montreal, Canada
BOHIO/Ritmos de Geometria, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2024 For those who transend in the wind/Ritmos para Oya, MOCA Miami, FL
2024
For those who transend in the wind/Ritmos para Oya, MOCA Miami, FL
Embedded Narratives, (Florida Prize Survey), Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Fragmented / compuestos del ayer, The Baker Museum, Naples, FL
2023
A spell-working of Temporal geometry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2022
Areíto/ Allusions of Sacred Geometry and Diaspora, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
2021
Collado/Villarino, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY
Alchemic Chants/ Reliquias Fragmentadas, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
2020
If they knew these things, Reliquias/Ocultadas, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
2018
Penumbras, Under the Bridge Art Space, Miami, FL
Viento brujo, Farside Gallery, Miami, FL
2016
Original Conditions, MDC Museum of Art + Design/Bridge Red Studios, Miami, FL
2015
Tivio Esta…and always the same, Farside Gallery, Miami, FL
Group Exhibitions
2025
Loss and Absence: Lives and Legacies of Textiles, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Upcoming in September of 2025)
2024
To weave the sky/ Textile abstractions, El Espacio (The Jorge Perez Collection)
Index’ 24, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
As we move forward, Agusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, MS, Connecticut
The Octagon, Bridge Red Studios, Miami FL
2023
Post Hip Hop: or Return of the Boom Bap!, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, NY
Residential Properties, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami Fl.
So far and away, Edge Zone gallery, Miami FL.
2021
Estamos Bien, La Trienal, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Under the Florida Sun, Florida Atlantic University
Networks, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL
Performance 4 Ways: MY BODY, MY RULES, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
2020
Idioms and Taxonomies, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL
Storage, Storage Project Space, New York, NY
Local Global, Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, Miami, FL
AIM Biennial, Miami, FL
2019
Fragment, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
Penumbras: narrative of presence, Project Row House, Houston, TX
Paradise Lost? Alchemy of necessity, Juxtaposition, Minneapolis, MN
The Other Half of the Sky, Girls Club, For Lauderdale, FL
2018
Penumbras, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
Deconstruction, Frost Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Outlaw Culture: or higher ground, Bridge Red Studios, Miami, FL
Paradise Lost? Alchemy of the everyday, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York
Monarchs, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
The past is more infinite than the future, Under the Bridge, Miami, FL
2017
In time of Uncertainty, Edge Zones, Miami, FL
Transphysics we knew about, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
2016
Invisible: spirits in the material world, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
Transphysics: istwa, landscapes, paisajes, Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
Intersectionality, Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Miami, FL
Transmissions: algoritmos, polyrhythms, karuraqmi puririnay, The Franklin, Chicago, IL
Dirt: Yuta Suelo Udongo Té, Florida International University Boca Raton, FL
Ascent: Black Women’s Expressions, Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2015
Socabon, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
2014
Third Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
MIA_ATL, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Ten, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY
MIA_BER, Verein Berliner Kunstler, Berlin, Germany
2013
South Florida Biennial, Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
Palimpset, Carrol Jazzar Contemporary, Miami, FL
2012
Smoke Signals, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS
2025
Ellies( Oolite Arts) creator grant
2024
Florida Prize, Orlando Museum of Art
Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency
Wave Maker grant/ Locust Projects
2023
Mississippi Museum of Art, National Artist in Residency, Jackson, MI
The Joan Mitchell Residency, New Orleans, Louisiana
MIA Mobile Art studio residency, North Miami, FL
Artist In Residence, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2022
Art Pace Residency, San Antonio, Texas
Foundation for the Contemporary Arts emergency Grant
2021
South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant
2020
Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency, New Orleans, LA
2019
Ellies Creator Award
2018
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
2013
Bridge Red Art Center, North Miami, FL
2011
African Heritage Cultural Center, Miami, FL
Public Programs
2025
Perez Museum of Art, International Women’s Committee Visiting Artist panel discussion
2023
Arist Lecture, Mississippi Museum of Art
2022
Artist Lecture, Virginia Tech, VA
2021
FORM, Visiting Artist panel discussion, El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY
2019
LATINX conference, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Artist talk, Bridge Red Studios, Miami, FL
Public lecture, Project Row house, TX
Lecture Series, Under the Bridge, Miami, FL
Artist Lecture Series, Florida International University, Miami, FL
2018
Artist Conference, Spady Museum, DelRey Beach, FL
2017
Public Workshop, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
2015
Public presentation, Project Row House, Houston, TX
The Franklin Space, Chicago, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY (PRINT AND ELECTRONIC)
2024
Maria Guerreo, Artist Yanira Collado wins 2024 Florida Prize
Patric Conolly, Florida Prize Winner
Jonel Juste, MOCA North Miami outdoor art series returns.
2023
Tobias Ostrander, To weave the sky, Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Perez Collection-Catalogue
2022
Soto, Edra, The sacred geometry of Yanira Collado
Martinez, Alexander, Yanira Collado’s Alchemic Chants/Reliquias Fragmentadas, Burnaway Magazine
Fu, Yiming, New Noyes Cultural Arts Center installation ‘Areito’ explores Caribbean cultural practices and folkloric traditions, The Northwestern
2021
De Liscia, Valentina, El Museo’s Triennial Gathers Works That Defy Pervasive Stereotypes Mapped onto Latinx Art
Nicole Martinez, 10 LatinX Artists to watch At el Museos del Barrio’s Trienal, Artsy
Estamos Bien, La Trienial, Museo del Barrio Catalogue
2020
Fishman, George. “A New Era for Oolite Arts.” The Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2020
Pérez Art Museum Miami Buys Art From Local Galleries To Bolster Cultural Sector, Art Forum
Estape, Taylor. “Oolite Arts' Acquisitions Program Keeps Miami Artists Working.” Miami New Times, Sept
Sirmans, Franklin. “Our Mission Is to Be Miami's Art Museum-That's Why We Spent $145,000 to Buy Works from Local Galleries.” The Art Newspaper, The Art Newspaper, Pérez Art Museum Miami Acquires Eight Artworks from Miami-Based Galleries for Permanent Collection
“The Pérez Art Museum Miami Is Closed, But It Still Went on a Buying Spree at Local Miami Art Galleries”www.Artnet.com, 22 May
2019
“Seeing the Obvious, Revealing the Hidden: Yanira Collado with Onajide Shabaka,”BOMB Magazine, June 4
Oroza, Ernesto, Beta, Penumbras exhibition publication, January 27
2018
Fishman, George. “Monarchs”, The Miami Herald, Visual Arts, July 13, Pg 1,2
Galpin, Amy, Deconstruction catalogue, July 10, Pg 4
2017
Dennis, Ryan N., Art, Economics and Biscayne, The Miami Rail, Spring
2016
Turner, Elisa, In Turbulent Times, Hamptons Art Hub, Nov 30
Shabaka, Onajide, Dirt Yuta Suelo Udongo Te, FAU catalogue Pg. 20-21
Fishman, Scott, Black history put emphasis on women, Sun Sential, Feb 29
Lane, Nicole, Interview, Third Coast Review, May 24
Reichert, Elliot J. The sun is bright in Florida, New City Art, June 1
2015
The Back Drop catalogue, Girls Club, September
2014
M'Bow, Babacar, Third Space MOCA Catalogue, MOCA Museum, Dec
2013
“Palimsest” Art Pulse Magazine, December, Pg. 96-97
Tschida, Anne, One Gallery, Two shows, 2 locations, Knights Arts, Oct 12
2012
Tschida, Anne, “Building Bridges” Biscayne Times, June 6, Pg. 68-69
Perez, Henry, “Featured Artist” MiamiARTzine, June 8
Public Collections
EL Museo Del Barrio
El Espacio
Oolite Arts
Perez Art Museum
Florida International University
Virginia Tech