Nayda Collazo-Llorens
San Juan, PR, 1968
San Juan, PR, 1968
Painter, graphic and digital artist, video artist and creator of installations for specific places and artistic interventions. She earned a BA in 1990 from Massachusetts College of Art and an MA in 2002 from New York University (NYU), both in fine arts. She received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship in 2012 and a Research Fellowship from the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in 2014. She has completed several art residencies, including the New York Harvestworks Program (2000), and has received awards at various events in and outside of Puerto Rico. In recent years she has made public interventions in San Juan and New York, where she lives. She works with the concepts of time and memory and with the contradiction between the inner, spiritual experience, and the outer experience of the urban and its chaos. She uses symbols and the repetition of images and numbers to describe the fragmented and intangible nature of information processing in the human mind, one of her main conceptual investigations. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art Net, Art US, Art Nexus, Art News, Arte al Día International, BOMBlog, and Newcity, among others.
Through a multidisciplinary practice, I examine the way we perceive and process information, and other concepts related to navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise. I use various strategies to compile marks, images, sounds and texts, which are edited, combined and restructured in cartographic systems or sensory spaces, among other modalities. In drawings on paper and cloth, spots, lines, marks, numbers and text are interconnected creating structures or systems where marks collide, cross and repel each other in an organic but systematic way. My text works explore post-alphabetic communication, informational overflow, noise and chance, through the use of video, printed material and installations. My most recent public interventions and in-situ installations explore sampling as an artistic strategy or practice, inviting the viewer to reflect on the complexities of the mind and the fragmented way in which we perceive the inner and outer world, particularly in this age so complex where information overload and hyperconnectivity go hand in hand with distancing and dissociation.
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Archer, Melanie, and Mariel Brown. A To Z of Caribbean Art. Robert & Christopher, Publishers, 2019.
Collazo-Lloréns, Nayda. "Bokeh." Alejandra, Point of Contact. No 1-2 ed. Vol. 10. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2010. 51-57.
Collazo-Lloréns, Nayda. "Interference." Chicana / Latina Studies: the Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social 7.1 (2007): 6+.
Cros, Fernando. “Pintura y heterogeneidad: la última década. Las artes visuales puertorriqueñas a principios del siglo XXI.” Edición Adlín Ríos Rigau, San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2002. pp. 205-226.
Davenport, Philip, ed. The Dark Would: Language Art Anthology. UK: Apple Pie, 2013.
Flores, Tatiana, and Michelle Ann Stephens. Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago. Museum of Latin American Art, 2017. Publication by MoLAA in collaboration with Fresco Books / SF Design, LLC. Distributed by Duke University Press.
Pérez Ruiz, José. “Visiones finiseculares. Las artes visuales puertorriqueñas a principios del siglo XXI”. Edición Adlín Ríos Rigau, San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2002, pp. 195-204.
Candiani, Alicia. "Obras: selección de artistas, gráfica contemporánea de campo extendido." ánodo-cátodo: electrólisis y la galvanografía, la memoria química esculpida por electrones. Ed. Ana Soler and Kako Castro. Pontevedra: DX5, 2013. 314-15.
Davenport, Philip, ed. The Dark Would: Language Art Anthology. UK: Apple Pie, 2013.
“Arte del Nuevo Medio: 12 propuestas electrónicas”. CD-Rom. San Juan: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, 1999.
Bonilla Ryan, Roberto. “Nayda Collazo o el espacio confrontado. Nayda Collazo Lloréns: obra reciente”. San Juan: Galería Raíces, 1996.
Careos / relevos: 25 años del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. San Juan: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, 2010.
Contexto puertorriqueño: del rococó colonial al arte global. San Juan: Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, 2007.
Cullen, Deborah. “Here & There / Aquí y allá”. Nueva York: El Museo del Barrio, 2001.
Cullen, Deborah, Silvia Karman Cubiñá and Steven Homes. None of the Above: Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists. Hartford: Real Art Ways, 2004.
Fiol-Matta, Liza. RT:PR [Road Trip: Puerto Rico] Obras Seleccionadas. Jersey City: New Jersey City University, 2004. Insert to the catalogue.
Kauder, Helen. Chris Doyle: 50,000 Beds. Ridgefield: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. 46-47.
MacQueen, Kathleen. "Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: The Consistency of Chaos." Nayda Collazo-Lloréns, An Exercise in Numbness & Other Tales. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 2012.
Painting as Paradox. Nueva York: Artists Space, 2002
Quiroga, José. ESCaperucita & Little Flying Hood. Nayda Collazo Llorens > X Bienal de La Habana. Pittsburgh: NCL, 2009. 3-9.
Ramírez, Yasmín. “Conceptualizando el Tiempo: Comentarios sobre la obra de Nayda Collazo Lloréns. Nayda Collazo Lloréns: Tiempo y Consecuencias”. San Juan: Galería de Arte Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, 2000.
Santiago Ibarra, Beatriz. “Nayda Collazo Lloréns: Fulanos”. San Juan: Galería Raíces, 1992.
Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: El Panal / The Hive. San Juan: Programa de Artes Plásticas, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2012.
Alegre Barrios, Mario. “Desarraigados los 'Fulanos' de Nayda Collazo”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 26 de enero de 1992, pp. 68.
Álvarez Lezama, Manuel. “Collazo's abstract realm rich, effective”. The San Juan Star (San Juan, PR), 15 de octubre de 1998 pp. 41.
Álvarez Lezama, Manuel. “Espejo del principio y del fin”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 23 de abril de 2000, pp.77.
Álvarez Lezama, Manuel. “Voices from the deep forest”. The San Juan Star (San Juan, PR), 30 de marzo de 1997.
Bowman, Amy Joan. "Placement Tests." Rev. of exhibition. Pittsburgh City Paper (Pittsburg, EU), 30 July 2008: 30.
Colón Camacho, Doreen M. “El color, elemento redentor de la obra de Collazo”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 17 de julio de 1993, pp. 76.
Colón Camacho, Doreen M. “La poética de Collazo”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 30 de septiembre de 1994, pp. 91.
Cotter, Holland. "Spaces That Feel Like the Corner Store." Rev. of Unmappings. New York Times 27 Apr. 2018, Weekend Arts II sec.: C16. Print.
Cotter, Holland. “None of the Above: Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists”. The New York Times (Nueva York, EU), 4 de junio de 2004, pp.E31.
Cotter, Holland. “Tourists, Jungle Sprites and the Logic of Dreams on Fantasy Island”. The New York Times (Nueva York, EU), 9 de marzo de 2001, pp. E37.
Cudlin, Jeffry. "Navigable Zones: Nayda Collazo-Llorens." Washington City Paper (Washington DC, EU) 18 de mayo de 2007, Critic's Pick: Galleries sec.: p. 78.
Galligan, Jan, and Lillian Mulero. "DIARIO DEL ARTE: Verano Del 2016." Review. Claridad [San Juan] 18 Aug. 2016, En Rojo sec.: 16-17.
Galligan, Jan, and Lillian Mulero. "San Juan Art Diary : Summer, 2016." JANguarte. N.p., 18 Aug. 2016. Web. 06 Oct. 2016.
García Gutiérrez, Enrique. “Árboles y ondulaciones”. El Nuevo Día, Revista Domingo (San Juan, PR), 6 de abril de 1997, pp. 10-13.
Johnson, Patricia C. “Puerto Rican artists offer show of extravagance”. Houston Chronicle (Houston, EU), 26 de enero de 2002, pp. 9-10D.
Karman Cubiñá, Silvia. “Arte del nuevo medio: doce propuestas electrónicas”. El Diario La Prensa (Nueva York, EU), 20 de junio de 1999, pp. 8.
McGinley, Megan. "Arts Brief: Text Messages." New York Press (Nueva York, EU), 2008.
Morales Blanes, Sandra. “Memorias, juegos y códigos”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 11 de agosto de 2001, pp. 82.
Orttenburger, Marie. "Odes to the Great Lakes: GVSU Exhibition Showcases Collaborative Pieces." Great Lakes Echo. Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University, 18 Feb. 2016. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.
Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Collazo en canales simultáneos”. El Nuevo Día, Arte y Cultura (San Juan, PR), 4 de agosto de 2003, pp. 17.
Rivera Esquilín, Eileen. "Propuesta Rigurosa Y Colorida." El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 22 de enero de 2011.
Rivera, Nelson. "Arte vídeo de Puerto Rico”. Diálogo (San Juan, PR), Enero-Febrero 2010.
Robertson, Lynn. “Subtropical Touch”. Sun-Sentinel (Miami, FL), 12 de septiembre de 1998, pp 1D, 6D.
Rodríguez, Jorge. “Simultaneidad de medios y arte total”. El Vocero (San Juan, PR), 4 de agosto de 2003, pp.E18.
Shaw, Kurt. "Sense of Place." Rev. of exhibition. Pittsburgh Tribune (Pittsburgh, EU), 31 de Julio de 2008.
Toro, Ana Teresa. "Poesía y paredes." El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 5 de agosto de 2010, pp. 78-79.
Turner, Elisa. “Edgy works add liveliness to Hortt”. The Herald (Miami, FL), 27 de septiembre de 1998 pp. 1I, 8I.
Vélez, Pedro. “My Top Art Picks for 2012 in Chicago and the Midwest.” Rev. of exhibition. NEWCITY. 20 de diciembre de 2012, p. 14.
Venegas, Haydée. “Viaje por un mundo alucinado”. El Nuevo Día, Arte y Cultura (San Juan, PR), 20 de agosto de 2003, pp. 28.
Alvarez Lezama, Manuel. “Art of the New Media: Twelve Electronic Proposals”. Art Nexus (San Juan, PR), núm 34, noviembre a enero de 2000, pp.110-111.
Fuentes, Elvis. “Nayda Collazo-Lloréns, Configuraciones”. Art Nexus (San Juan, PR), Núm 60, marzo y mayo de 2006, pp. 149-150.
Gibellini, Laura F. "Nayda Collazo-Lloréns, LMAKprojects, New York." Rev. of exhibition. Arte al Día International (Miami, FL), May-July 2012: 107-08.
Harbin, Virginia Allison. "Navigating the Rhizomatic Archive: Temporal Leaps and Loops in Nayda Collazo-Lloréns' Recent Works." ARC Magazine (St. Vicent and the Granadines), May 2013: 16-23.
Ottmann, Klaus. “None of the Above”. Art US, (Estados Unidos), 4 de septiembre de 2004.
Pasquini, Stefano. “Understanding Puerto Rico”. NY Arts (Nueva York, EU) vol. 5, núm 5, may 2000, pp. 40-42.
Roulet, Laura. "Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: Navigable Zones." Orificio: ¿Pan, Tierra, Cocos y Libertad? (San Juan, PR) 2008, 5th ed.: 80-83.
Rosoff, Patricia. “Home Improvement: Nineteen Puerto Rican artists show us some irreverence”. Hartford Advocate (Connecticut, EU), 27 de mayo de 2004.
Jana, Reena. “Six Artists from San Juan”. Art News, mayo de 2001, pp. 190.
Santone, Jessica. "Mapping the Viewer's Perception." Nayda Collazo-Llorens: Comfortably Numb. N.p.: Grand Valley State U, 2017. 4-18. Print.
Flores, Tatiana, and Michelle Stephens. "Contemporary Art of the Hispanophone Caribbean Islands in an Archipelagic Framework." Small Axe 51 (2016): 80-99.
Sweeny, Robert W. Dysfunction and Decentralization in New Media Art and Education. N.p.: Intellect, 2015. Print.
Harbin, Virginia Allison. "Navigating the Rhizomatic Archive: Temporal Leaps and Loops in Nayda Collazo-Llorens' Recent Works." ARC Magazine May 2013: 16-23.
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Gibellini, Laura F. "Nayda Collazo-Llorens, LMAKprojects, New York." Arte Al Día International. May 13, 2012. http://es.artealdia.com/International/Contenidos/Resenas/Nayda_Collazo-Llorens
MacQueen, Kathleen. "Nayda Collazo-Llorens: An Exercise in Numbness & Other Tales." Shifting Connections. May 4, 2013. http://shiftingconnections.com/2013/05/04/nayda-collazo-llorens-an-exercise-in-numbness-and-other-tales
MacQueen, Kathleen. "Shifting Connections: Spring Shorts." Rev. of exhibition. BOMBLOG. BOMB, May 1, 2012. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/shifting-connections-spring-shorts/
Ramos Collado, Lilliana. "Nayda Collazo-Lloréns: una conversación sobre el arte de lo intangible." Bodegón con Teclado. 3 de julio de 2015. https://bodegonconteclado.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/nayda-collazo-llorens-una-conversacion-sobre-el-arte-de-lo-intangible/
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