exhibitions and publications
2023 Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts- Schenectady, New York
Solo exhibition
“The Other”
The light circle in all images evokes a searchlight- an allegorical homage to a potential “border crossing.” The series crescendoes into a final image depicting a transformation; conformation into a culture that I’ve always half belonged to yet never fully accepted. The attempt is to display my existence between two worlds- “clean up your heritage to acquiesce.” Additionally, with the utilisation of the black and white Puerto Rican flag- which symbolises resistance- “The Other” invites the viewer to question the very unique colonial dynamic between Puerto Rico and the United States. Not a state, unable to vote for the president or senate that rules over them; Puerto Rican citizens are clearly second class ones. Stereotypes and willful ignorance from “first class citizens” aggravate the exchange tenfold.
Curated by Jorge Luna
(8-13 November 2023)
“Just how these photographs disguise the figure in the photo, while simultaneously giving light to what the figure represents, is just how we have to see the complexity of human identity.”
- anonymous exhibition attendee
Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts- Schenectady, New York
2023 Voices de la Luna - A Quarterly Literature and Art Magazine - San Antonio, TX
98 Days - Publicised pieces - At the Expense of Losing My Sanity, Full Red Forest,
and Mermaid Secrets.
2023 ARTWIFE - Digital Literary and Arts Magazine
98 Days - Publicised pieces - What’s the Name of That Restaurant Again, Alfonso,
At the Expense of Losing My Sanity, Full Red Forest, and Mermaid Secrets.
2018 Abrons Arts Center- New York, NY
Solo exhibition
AFTER (the 2016 USA election)
a challenge on xenophobia- the voice of minorities in front of a camera
Curated by Sara Sciabbarrasi, Jorge Luna, and Artem Yatsunov.
(9-31March , 2018)
"Jorge Luna's AFTER is a gripping commentary on the devastating and rejuvenating power of empathy."
-Artem Yatsunov, Director, 'Oye For My Dear Brooklyn'
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2017 The Art Room, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Solo exhibition
98 days
Curated by Keelie Sheridan, Jorge Luna, and José Ángel Quiñones
(6-20 April, 2017)
“Luna appears to be swimming inside a bathtub in one of the prints. It suggests the eternal search every artist faces to get to know themselves and the restless search for their place in this world both as artists, yet more importantly, as people.”
-Camile Roldán Soto, Journalist for El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Video by Little Ghost Media
