TLP Artist in Residence is invited to be part of the NYU academic community. A.I.R’s have a unique opportunity to shape the contemporary/historic dialogue surrounding Latinx Art & Culture. In addition, our A.I.R. receives invaluable resources toward creating a solo/group presentation.
Photo by Emmanuel Amoakohene
Estelle Maisonett
(Spring 2024)
Estelle Maisonett is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Her work is an investigation of how personal and socio-cultural relationships to objects and materials inform preconceived notions of identity. With a practice comprising photography, printmaking, sculpture painting, installation and video, Maisonett’s life-size collages explore how Latinx identity has historically been composited by fragments of cultures locally and abroad. Maisonett received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art in 2023 and her BFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2013. She was a recipient of the 2023 Quinn Emanuel residency, 2023 Barry Cohen Scholarship, 2022 Alice Kimball Travel Grant research Fellowship, 2021 NewWave Artist-in-Residence, 2018 Artist in the MarketPlace Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a 2018 BronxArtSpace Artist in Residence. Estelle has exhibited at The Bronx Museum of Art, Chashama, Silent Barn, Field Projects, Bronx Art Space, El Barrio ArtSpace at PS109, Latchkey, Longwood art Gallery, The Andrew Freedman Home, Hostos College, The School of Visual Arts amongst others. She is an arts community worker and educator who has worked with The Parsons School of Design, NYU, The Bronx Children’s Museum, Department of Education NYC Schools and additional community spaces in New York City.
Mildred Beltré
(Fall 2023)
Mildred Beltré is a multi-disciplinary artist invested in grassroots activism, social justice, and political movements. Her work spans photography, print-making, drawing, text-based formats, and fiber arts. Across these diverse mediums, Beltré carries forth the legacies of revolutionary protests and civil rights movements, while bringing in elements of desire, pleasure, and humor. She is the co-founder of the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine (BHAM), an arts initiative in Crown Heights, Brooklyn that addresses gentrification and community building.
Photo by Scott A. Dolan
Image courtesy of Pachi Muruchu
Pachi Muruchu
(Fall 2022 - Spring 2023)
Pachi Muruchu is an Ecuadorian painter whose work builds upon millennia of indigenous Andean knowledge and cultural labor. He was born in Azuay, a highlands province in Ecuador, but has lived the majority of his life in Spanish Harlem. A recent graduate from RISD's 2021 class, Pachi's work focuses on animistic storytelling from his ancestral Andean geographies and the Lenape territory he grew up in. His images weave centuries of indigenous storytelling with contemporary experiences. He was part of The Clemente's group show, The Fight to Free Leonard Peltier - Honoring Indigenous Culture and Heritage. Muruchu will have a solo show at Friends Indeed Gallery in October 2022. Currently, he is the Artist in Residence for the Latinx Project.
Mary Valverde
(Fall 2021 - Spring 2022)
Mary Valverde (born 1975, Queens, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. She received her MFA at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 as a School of Design's Dean's Diversity Fellow, and her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY in 1999. Valverde teaches at Hunter College. Her work, "Huaca", exhibited at BRIC for the Latinx Abstraction show was featured in the New York Times. Valverde has given lectures and exhibited work at BRIC, Smack Mellon, MoCA North Miami, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, The New Jersey State Museum, Art Center South Florida, El Museo del Barrio, The Queens Museum of Art, Jersey City Museum, Momenta Gallery, Saltworks Gallery, Corridor Gallery, Rush Arts Gallery, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Aferro Gallery, among others. Since 2015 Valverde serves as a Commissioner (Sculptor seat) for the Public Design Commission of the City of New York, and often contributes as an advisor to the NYC Cultural Arts Affairs. Valverde is a 2021 CCSRE Arts Practitioner Fellow at Stanford University. She has been in residence at the Thomas Hunter Ceramic Artist in Residence in 2014, an MFA Lecturer at the ICA Philadelphia in 2011, at Artist Alliance Residency 2007, and at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art's Emerge Program in 2006. Valverde has curated exhibitions and published her writing through AC Institute, NY and the Korean Cultural Center of New York.
Image Courtesy of Mary Valverde
Image Courtesy of William Camargo, Photo by Lester Guijarro @thebeardednomaad
William Camargo
(Fall 2019 - Spring 2020)
William Camargo is an Arts Educator, Photo-Based Artist, and Arts Advocate born and raised in Anaheim, California. He is currently serving as Commissioner of Heritage and Culture in the city of Anaheim and holds an M.F.A at Claremont Graduate University. Camargo is the founder and curator of Latinx Diaspora Archives an archive Instagram page that elevates communities of color through family photos. He attained his BFA at the California State University, Fullerton, and an AA from Fullerton College in photography.
William has held residencies at Project Art, the Chicago Artist Coalition, ACRE, and at LA Summer held at Otis School of Art and Design. He has also participated in the New York Times Portfolio Review, NALAC's(National Association of Latino Arts & Culture) Leadership(2018), and Advocacy(2020) Institutes. He is a current member of Diversify Photo an initiative started to diversify the photography industry. He was awarded the Friedman Grant and J. Sonneman Photography Prize from CGU and has given lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Gallery 400(Chicago), University of San Diego, Cal State Long Beach, the Claremont Colleges, and USC Roski School of Art, Stanford(upcoming).
Vick Quezada
(Fall 2019 - Spring 2020)
is an artist that currently resides in Western Massachusetts. They were born on the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, TX. Historically, Quezada has occupied spaces in the grates where worlds clash, this informs their work and incites the tension that is created as a result. From 2016-17, Quezada was a curatorial fellow at the University Museum of Contemporary Art and worked with Fred Wilson over the course of a year; which led up to the exhibit Five takes on African Art. Quezada’s work has been exhibited at the Nolen: Smith College, and collectively in The Mead Art Museum, The BGSQD, the Living Arts Festival in Tulsa Oklahoma. Recently, they were a resident at the Vermont Studio Center. Quezada’s work will be featured in an upcoming issue of the Transgender Studies Quarterly, Duke Press 6:4 and the Believer Magazine. Quezada earned a BFA from The University of Texas at El Paso in 2005 and graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Learn more about Vick.
Shellyne Rodriguez
(Fall 2018 - Spring 2019)
is a visual artist who works in multiple mediums to depict spaces/subjects engaged in strategies of survival against false hope, a device employed in the service of subjugation. These psychological and emotive inquiries put the Baroque in contact with a Decoloniality rooted in the traditions of hip hop culture. Her work utilizes text, drawing, painting, found materials, and sculpture to emphasize these ideas. Shellyne graduated with a BFA in Visual & Critical Studies From the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in Fine Art from CUNY Hunter College. She has had her work and projects exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum, New Museum and her work has recently been commissioned by the city of New York for a permanent public sculpture, which will serve as a monument to the people of the Bronx. Learn more about Shellyne.