Touch Receptors 0101 by Nayda Collazo-Llorens
Starting Price: $800
Nayda Collazo-Llorens
Touch Receptors 0101, 2025
12 x 8 1/4 in.
Mixed media on paper
About the Artwork
Touch Receptors is an ongoing series of abstract drawings that began in 2013 and through which I consider marks and mark-making in relation to sensory nerve endings found in our skin and tactile sensations sent to our brains. After a three-year break, the series resumed in 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, the drawings have also explored concepts of disruption and collapse, as well as mapping and dislocation—subjects I explore in other media, including video, installations, and site-specific works.
About the Artist
Nayda Collazo-Llorens, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a visual artist who works in various media, including drawing, video, installations, and site-specific works. She earned an MFA from New York University and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited at El Museo del Barrio in New York, The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City, and the Dowse Art Museum in New Zealand, among others. She lives and works in Kalamazoo, Michigan and is a 2024-25 Rooted + Relational Hybrid Fellow at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO).
Collazo-Llorens exhibited in RicanVisions in 2025 at The Latinx Project.