EXHIBITIONS (SOLO)
2025 - Museo y Casa Pilar Desfilló: The Afterlives of Ismael Rivera (Mayagüez, Puerto Rico)
2024 - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC): The Afterlives of Ismael Rivera (Puerto Rico)
2024 - Casa Museo Ismael Rivera: The Afterlives of Ismael Rivera (Puerto Rico)
2024 - Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO): The Fires: Hoboken 1978-1982 (NYC)
2023 - Hoboken Historical Museum: The Fires: Hoboken 1978-1982 (Hoboken, NJ)
2022 - RCAH Look Out Gallery: The Afterlives of Ismael Rivera/A Visual Guide to the Heart (East Lansing, MI)
EXHIBITIONS (GROUP)
2025 - Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum: New Jersey State Arts Annual: Artist as Activist (Glassboro, NJ)
2024 - The Avery Research Center for African American History & Culture: Coastal Relations; Enacting Diaspora (Charleston, SC)
2022 - Visual Arts Center of New Jersey: Ripple Effect (Summit, NJ)
2022 - New Jersey State Museum: New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence (Trenton, NJ)
2021 - Barnard College: Un-design the Redline: An Interactive Exhibition (NYC)
2021 - Humble Arts Foundation: La Frontera; a New Latinx Lexicon (online)
2017 - The College of Holy Cross: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery: Rethinking the Afropolitan (Worcester, MA)
2015 - Museum of the City of New York: Affordable New York/A Housing Legacy (NYC)
2014 - El Museo Del Barrio: Museum Starter Kit: Open With Care (NYC)
2013 - El Museo Del Barrio: Superreal; Alternative Realities in Photography and Video (NYC)
2012 - Nathan Cummings Foundation: Caribe Now! (NYC)
2012 - The Studio Museum in Harlem: Caribbean; Crossroads of the World (NYC)
2010 - El Museo Del Barrio: Voces y Visiones; Works from the Permanent Collection (NYC)
2010 - Museo Las Américas: VII Bienal Internacional de Fotografía de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
2009 - Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center: Visions of Puerto Rico (NYC)
2009 - Host Gallery: Urban Encounter (London)
PUBLICATIONS
Jersey Vol. 2; Self-Published, Laser Printed Spreads, Perfect Bound, 8” x 10”, 80 pages, First Edition of 100 (pub. 2024)
The Afterlives of Ismael Rivera; Images Inspired by the Music of El Sonero Mayor; ARCA Press an imprint of Michigan State University Press, Risograph Book, Saddle Stitched, 8” x 10”, 41 pages, First Edition of 250 (pub. 2022)
Jersey Vol. 1; Self-Published, Laser Printed Spreads, Perfect Bound, 8” x 10”, 41 pages, First Edition of 100 (pub. 2021)
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
El Museo Del Barrio, New York
World Trade Center Memorial Museum, New York
LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
Pratt Institute, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Thomas J. Watson Library, New York
Universidad de Puerto Rico; Recinto de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Fisher Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
AWARDS
New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship: The Individual Artist Fellowships carry out in partnership with Mid Atlantic Arts are competitive awards to New Jersey artists in 13 rotating disciplines. (February 2025)
New Jersey Historical Commission: Awarded both the Inclusive History Grant and Project Grant by this non-profit. NJHC is a state agency dedicated to the advancement of public knowledge and preservation of New Jersey history. Their grant program aims to engage diverse audiences and practitioners in the active exploration, enjoyment, interpretation, understanding, and preservation of New Jersey history. (April 2024)
New Jersey Council for the Humanities: Awarded an Action Grant by this non-profit who grants funding for a wide range of community based humanities projects. NJCH provides opportunities to make history relevant and encourages diverse audiences to reflect on the shared human experience. Their focus lies in disciplines such as history, literature, philosophy, as well as the less common, jurisprudence (April 2022)
Diaspora Solidarities Lab: Awarded a fellowship and grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the continuance of historical community based work. The DSL is a multi-institutional Black feminist digital humanities partnership that supports solidarity work in Black and ethnic studies by undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members, and community partners committed to transformative justice and accountable to communities beyond the Western academy. (February 2022)
Diversify Photo: Awarded full membership by this organization of BIPOC and non-western photographers, editors, and visual producers working to break with the predominantly colonial and patriarchal eye through which history and the mass media has seen and recorded the images of our time. Full-Member (June 2021)
The Laundromat Project: Awarded fellowship to this five month series of bi-weekly professional development workshops for artists geared towards developing or deepening their practice of making socially relevant, socially- engaged art. The fellowship program offered effective, affordable, and intensive training for artists on learning how to fulfill community-based, social practice artworks. (June 2013)
LECTURES
Princeton University - Latinx Photography (April 2025)
Columbia University School of Journalism - Visual Storytellers International Program (March 2025)
SUNY - Oneonta Cooperstown Graduate Program (April 2024)
Pitzer College - Advanced Photography (October 2023)
Michigan State University – Footnotes: A Conversation on Things Lost & Found in the Fire (March 2020)
Bridgewater State University – Latin American Caribbean Studies Carnival Week “Celebrating Creative Resistance” (March 2018)
The College of Holy Cross – A Retrospective; In Conversation with the Artist (Nov. 2017)
PANELS
Modern Languages Association Conference (MLA) - Collaboration as Method (January 2025)
The Avery Research Center for African American History & Culture - Diaspora Solidarities Lab Final Symposium - Across the Archipelago (October 2024)
New Jersey Historical Commission – Justice for the Dead / Reconstructing the Hidden Histories of African Americans and Latinos in New Jersey (April 2024)
Cornell University – Afro-Diasporic Afterlives: The Archive, Refusal & the Disappeared Seminar (April 2022)
Barnard College – Undesign the Redline Symposium (November 2021)
El Barrio Artspace P.S. 109 - Working and Living as an Artist in East Harlem (Mar. 2014)
William Paterson University - Latino Heritage Month - Puerto York: A Retrospective on Puerto Rican Identity (Sep. 2008)
TEACHING
Newark Academy
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Princeton University Art Museum
Bronx River Art Center
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Bronx Council of the Arts
The Aperture Foundation
Storefront Academy
Grand Street Settlement