Javier Orfón
"Pozuelo (Detail of the mural of laments)" (2017)
"Pozuelo (Detail of the mural of laments)" (2017)
Sculptor, Illustrator, and Experimental Printmaker. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in the Fine Arts Department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. In the same year, he made his first individual exposition in ÁREA: Lugar de proyectos titled Seres y Espacios. He has participated in collective exhibitions like La Muestra Nacional de Arte of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (2015 y 2018) y Confluencias at La Sala de Exhibiciones del Plata, organized by Fits Art Foundation (2017). His second individual show Litoral was exhibited in La Embajada (2019) and the third exhibition El Ojo de Arcilla en Hidrante (2020). In September of 2019 until the middle of April 2020 he participated in La Prática de Beta-Local. He worked as coordinator at ÁREA: Lugar de proyectos (2015-2019). Currently, he is the manager of the José Hernández Castrodad e Iris Marcano Art Collection. His work during these times is related to the experimentation of the ancestral Antillean pottery and the study of specific places in Puerto Rico.