Nayda Collazo-Llorens

Nayda Collazo-Llorens, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a visual artist engaged in an interdisciplinary practice incorporating multiple mediums and strategies to examine how we perceive and process information and concepts of navigation, memory, and language. She earned an MFA from New York University, a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and is a former Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant recipient. Her work has been exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico; and the 10th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba; and many others. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art Net, Art US, Art Nexus, Art News, Arte al Día International, BOMB, and Newcity, among others.