Artist Conversation: Joiri Minaya

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Artist Conversation: Joiri Minaya

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 @ 5:30 pm

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Art on Hulfish

Join the artist Joiri Minaya and Christina León, assistant professor of English at Princeton University, for a discussion of Minaya’s work, which is featured in the exhibition You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography at Art on Hulfish. Born in New York and raised in the Dominican Republic, Minaya destabilizes historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity through her multidisciplinary practice.  

Reception to follow. 

Watch the recorded talk.

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You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography is curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, chief curator and deputy director, Curatorial and Collections at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and organized by Aperture. 

Art on Hulfish is made possible by the leadership support of Annette Merle-Smith and Princeton University. Generous support is also provided by William S. Fisher, Class of 1979, and Sakurako Fisher; J. Bryan King, Class of 1993; the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; John Diekman, Class of 1965, and Susan Diekman; Barbara and Gerald Essig; Rachelle Belfer Malkin, Class of 1986, and Anthony E. Malkin; the Curtis W. McGraw Foundation; Tom Tuttle, Class of 1988, and Mila Tuttle; Nancy A. Nasher, Class of 1976, and David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976; Gene Locks, Class of 1959, and Sueyun Locks; and Palmer Square Management. Additional support for this exhibition is provided by the Program in Latin American Studies and the Effron Center for the Study of America. 

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Joiri Minaya, Ayoowiri / Girl with poinciana flowers, 2020. © Joiri Minaya. Courtesy the artist and Aperture