Artist's Statement

“The word remember (re-member) evokes the coming together of severed parts, fragments becoming whole” - bell hooks

I am a multimedia artist working with site-specific installations that encompass painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and audio. My practice considers concepts that allude to the restoration of histories once muted due to natural and human interventions such as the paradoxes in time and the disruption of indigenous cultures. Concurrently exploring cultural identity, colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalization.

These perceptions are summoned through construction materials, reclaimed literary texts, wood, concrete, textiles, iron, and drywall. Materials with inherent geographic histories, processes and economies that imply varying degrees of ritual, cultural values, traditions, personalized and public memory. My work assembles a visual language that reconciles the process in which the history of this information is recorded, stored, and retrieved. I am interested in the labor inherent in these materials and the shapes taken during their transitions which conjure up transcendence and, in many ways, "fragments becoming whole." -bell hooks

This spirit of inquiry in the embedded narrative of materials has led me to an expansive focus on textiles, architecture and artifacts. Contextualizing their trajectories and complex cultural history.

Henry Glassie, author of Material Culture and Folklorist “For too long historians have left out vast realms of experience that do not fit into words at all, that can only be shaped into artefacts.”

Bio

Yanira Collado is A multimedia artist working with site-specific installations that encompass painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and audio. Collado's practice considers concepts that allude to the restoration and reconciliation of histories. Art Residencies and fellowships include the Mississippi Museum of Art, Residency, Jackson Mississippi, 2023-2024, Art Pace Artist Residency, San Antonio, Texas, 2022 and the Joan Mitchell Residency, New Orleans 2023. In 2024 Collado placed best in show at the Orlando’s Museum of Art Florida survey, Florida Prize, and in 2022 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts to support her exhibition Areito: Allusions of Sacred Geometry and Diaspora.

Group shows include, To weave the sky/ Textile abstractions, El Espacio (The Jorge Perez Collection), Miami, Fl 2023. Hip-Hop or Return of the BoomBap, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, NY 2023. El Triennal, Estamos Bien, Museo del Barrio, New York, 2020-2021. Penumbras: sacred Geometries at Project Row Houses, Houston, TX, 2019.

Solo exhibitions include Residual Elements/Meditaciones sobre lo Fragmentado at Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK, Montreal, Quebec, 2025. BOHIO at Mindy Solomon gallery, Miami, FL, 2025. Transformative Elements at the Baker Museum in Naples, FL, 2023- 2024. For those who Transend in the wind/ Ritmos para Oya, MOCA Museum, Miami, FL. Zafa/ A spell working of Temporal Geometry at the Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, 2023.

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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