The Ellies

Yanira Collado

2026 Creator Award Winner
2025 Creator Award Winner
2023 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

Yanira Collado

2026
Collado is a multimedia artist working with site-specific installations that encompass painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and audio. Her practice considers concepts that allude to the restoration of histories once muted due to natural and human interventions and the paradoxes in time.

2025
For a research project focused on the subversive nature of textiles used by African Maroons that were instrumental in hundreds of uprisings throughout the Caribbean and later through the Underground Railroad in the Southern United States.

2023
For an experiential and interdisciplinary project that explores how textiles have served as instruments of subversive resistance and identity reconciliation, disrupting colonial, authoritarian rule in the Americas.

2019
Zafa: Preserving the Oral Tradition. Preserving the etymologies of five sacred narratives from the Dominican Republic by recording and sharing these oral traditions as told by Dominicans in South Florida and the island of Hispañola.