Draft:Nereida Garcia Ferraz

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Nereida Garcia-Ferraz (born 1954) is a Cuban-American multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes painting, drawings, photography, video, sculpture, and social art projects exploring personal narratives, identity, history, nature and the physical world.[1][2]

Her work has been exhibited by numerous museums and institutions and its part of many private and museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Yale University, The San Francisco Art Institute, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, and MDC Museum of Art and Design, among many others. Some important recent group exhibitions include "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" at MoMA PS1[3][4] and "Radical Conventions: Cuban American Art from The 1980s"[5] at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, “You Know Who You Are” at El Espacio 23[6] and the "South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition"[7] at MOCA, North Miami, Florida.

She co-produced and directed the award-winning video documentary Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra about the life and work of Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta. The film, awarded as Best Video Documentary, National Latino Film and Video Festival in 1988, is in the collection of many museums and universities such as MOMA, Guggenheim Museum, Yale University and San Francisco Art Institute,[8][9]distributeb ny Women Make Movies and the Video Data Bank.[10]

Biography[edit]

Born in Guanabacoa, Havana in 1954, Garcia-Ferraz emigrated to the United States in 1971 with her father, older sister and little brother. It took the family years before they were allowed to depart Cuba. Her mom and little sister reunited with them later on in Chicago, where they decided to establish themselves. Her father, a musician, wanted to live in a place where he could feel and hear music. The night they arrived he went out looking for a job and found one playing piano at one of the many jazz clubs in downtown.

In Chicago she had several jobs to support the family, but she wanted to study art so she created a portfolio of drawings which granted her a scholarship at the School of the Art Institute in 1976. During her time at the School of Arts she started painting large pieces of paper with oil often writing texts in Spanish perhaps as a way to express and not to forget who she was and where she was from.

  • Siguaraya Oil on paper, 1985 Chicago by Nereida García Ferraz
    Siguaraya Oil on paper, 1985 Chicago by Nereida García Ferraz
  • Esa Memoria de las cosas. Oil on paper 1985, Chicago by Nereida García Ferraz
    Esa Memoria de las cosas. Oil on paper 1985, Chicago by Nereida García Ferraz

She obtained a BFA in 1981 in Drawing and Photography but she also took classes on film and independent video. Upon graduation she was awarded the Ryerson Traveling Fellowship. She has also received two National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Art Council Fellowship in 1985, 1986 and 1989 and the Mac Arthur Foundation Media Grant in 1994. She was a member of the Board of the Department of Cultural Affairs during the office of Mayor Harold Washington[11],[12].[13]

Her work was part of the 50 years of Chicago art exhibition: "Art in Chicago, 1945–1995" in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.[14]

Garcia Ferraz moved to the Bay Area in 1997 where she had a studio in East Oakland. She founded The Photography Program at MACLA, San Jose California in 1998 and in 2000 she was the recipient of the The Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000 - 2001.[15][16][13][17]

In 2001 she moved to Miami where she co-founded 801 Projects with Angela Valella, an exhibition space where they curated many exhibitions, among others "Imperfect Archives". [18]

From 2011 to 2023 during her residence at the Fountainhead art studios[19], she worked with educations programs such as Women on the Rise [20]at MOCA of North Miami and Brick by Brick[21], the award-winning outreach education art program at Pérez Art Museum[22] and at the Idea Lab at BASS Art Museum in Miami. In 2022 she was awarded with the South Florida Visual Arts Consortium Fellowship.[23][18][24][25]

During the Chicago Art Expo April, 2024 her work won the La Crema

Exhibitions[edit]

  • Chicago Art Expo 2024 [26] - With Spinello Projects, picked as top 5 Profile Booths by Newcity Art [27] and winner of the inaugural La Crema Purchase Prize for La Crema’s permanent collection in Sonoma County.
  • De Noche Los Sueños at Spinello Projects. A 40-year survey marked by three major periods of Garcia-Ferraz's life: Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. Oct 2023.[28][29][28]
  • South Florida Cultural Consortium (SFCC) MOCA May 10 – October 1, 2023. The exhibition brings together a group of 12 South Florida Cultural Consortium 2023 award receiving artists, working across various media, including sculpture, film, and site-specific installations. This exhibition is organized by Adeze Wilford, MOCA Curator.[7]
  • Con la cabeza llena de cosas / With a Head Full of Things - This joint exhibition featured a dialogue between the photo-based works of Nereida Garcia-Ferraz and Marina Font. Curated by Rina Gitlin and Dina Mitrani. May - June 15 2023[30]
  • Belt of Venus - Curated and hosted by the Collective 62 Feb 19 through March 30th, 2023.[31]
  • Still There Are Seeds To Be Gathered - Curated by Karen Grimson. March 8 through 31, 2023 at 35 NE 40th ST, Design District, Miami. 2023 [32]
  • Global South Movements - Curated and produced by Tiffany Madera. Green Space Miami 2023.[33]
  • You Know Who You Are at El Espacio 23 - Contemporary Cuban and Cuban diaspora art. Curated by Anelys Alvarez and Patricia Hanna. Jorge Perez Collection. Miami, Florida Catalogue 2022.[6]
  • Radical Conventions- Cuban Art in America the 80's Curated by Elisabeth Cerejido. Lowe Museum Miami. University of Miami. Catalogue 2022 [5]
  • Women Photographers and Feminisms. WOPHA CONGRESS. Curated by Aldeide Delgado. Perez Art Museum. 2021. Catalogue.
  • Marking Time: Art in the Age of Incarceration. Curated by Nicole R. Fleetwood. MoMA PS1 NYC NY. 2020–21. Catalogue. 2021.[3][4]
  • Combined Strength; Four Decades of Miami Based Women Artists. Curated by Kathryn Mikesell at Minotti Miami. 2020
  • Drawing Closer, Collecting at a Distance: Nereida García Ferraz- Girls Club Collection. 2020[34]
  • Visiting Artist Residency at Tucson Art Museum and Southern Folk Arts Alliance Tucson Arizona 2019.[35]
  • Connectivity. Installation and Multimedia performance at Solar de la California. Detras del Muro. 12th Havana Biennale. Catalogue. 2019.[36]
  • Nereida Garcia Ferraz/ Marcando el Tiempo. Galeria Latinoamericana. La Casa de las Americas, Habana. Cuba 2017. [37]
  • Nexo/Nexus: Latin American Connections in the Midwest. De Paul University Museum. Chicago. 2016[38]
  • As Close As You Want - Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida 2016.[39][40]
  • Cuerpo, Genero, Ritual e Identidad: Behind the Wall. May 2014 [41]
  • Nereida Garcia Ferraz Overlapping History.  Santa Fe College. 2014 Florida.[42]
  • REVERSE: Rewriting culture. Dot Fifty-One Gallery, Miami
  • Xculpture 2014 Symposium, The Social Political Object. Columbus College of Art and Design 2014
  • Marking Time, The Social Political Object. Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2014
  • Master Artists, Series Spring 2015, Visiting Fellow at Santa Fe College, Art and Design, Gainesville. Florida
  • Antonia Eiriz and her Audience, MDC Art and Design Museum, Miami 2013
  • Concrete Paradise, Coral Gables Museum 2013,
  • Cuban Connections Near and Far MACLA, San Jose 2012[43][44]
  • Dialogues in Cuban Art. The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, 2009
  • Cintas Fellowship Finalist Exhibition, MDC Art and Design Museum, Miami   
  • Contemporary Cuban Art in New York. CANY. 2005
  • Ver para Creer. MACLA. San Jose, California
  • Paisajes de Ida y Vuelta. El Museo Del Chopo. Mexico City.
  • Chicago Art 1945-1995. Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago.
  • Nereida Garcia Ferraz / FOCI Forms of Contemporary Illinois. Illinois State Museum
  • Ana Mendieta: History and her Time. Moving Images Series @ MOCA, Miami
  • Drawing Center Viewing Program. New York. Smithsonian Latino Center. Washington D.C.

Teaching and Lectures[edit]

2024

  • Living, Creating and Aging in Miami: A Showcase and Panel Discussion. Moderated by PAMM Senior Director of Education Marie Vickles[45]

2023

  • An Evening with Ana - A celebration of Ana Mendieta's life and work at Nereida Garcia-Ferraz studio at the Miami Design District [46]
  • District Reads with Rosa Lowinger - A conversation with the miami raised art conservator Rosa Lowinger for the release of Lowinger's book “Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair, Miami design District[47][48]

2021

  • WOPHA Congress panelist speaker Pérez Art Museum Miami on 18–19 November 2021[49]

2009-2019

  • PAMM Outreach program, Brick by Brick National Award Winner

2015

  • Nereida Garcia-Ferraz – Visiting Artist Lecture, Santa Fe College[16]

2011-2014

  • Women on the Rise MOCA Outreach Program
  • Overlapping History.  Santa Fe College. 2014 Florida.[42]

2003 - 2004

  • Miami Dade College: Introduction to Digital Photography
  • Drawing Workshop at Broward Public Library
  • Lecture and presentation of work in NYU
  • Mexican Museum of San Francisco. Digital Photography Project of Mission Street.
  • Six week of photo documenting project at the historic district of Mission with a group of students which will be exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in May as part of the exhibition of Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
  • Visiting Artist. Berkeley University, California. Lecture on Photography and Painting. Coordinated by the Art Dept. and Ethnic Studies Program.
  • Visiting Artist. Drama Department of Stanford University. Lecture on Ana Mendieta video works.
  • Visiting Artist. San Jose Art Museum. Lecture and presentation: Art and War.

2002

  • Visiting Artist. Mexican Museum of San Francisco and James Lick Middle School.
  • Visiting Artist. MACLA. Photography Workshop and Portfolio Review at San Jose.
  • Visiting Artist. San Francisco Art Institute: Intensive Advance Painting Department.

2001

  • Lecture: Identities beyond Borders. At the American Museum of Natural History. Department of Education, NY.
  • Awarded the prestigious Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship. San Francisco Art Institute.
  • Advance painting and graduate seminar and Lecture on my work at San Francisco Art Institute.
  • Visiting Artist. Kala Art Institute in Berkeley in Collaboration with the San Francisco Art Institute. Youth Collaborative Project.
  • Headlands Center for the Arts. Juror for Visual Arts Residence Program.
  • Advance Portfolio Development for Photography students. An 8 month long residence project with emerging artists in the San Jose area.

2000

  • Photo Project for Latino Youth. Tech Museum of San Jose and MACLA. Advance b/w photo lab. Artist initiated project.
  • Exhibition by students. Press reviews. January 1999

1999

  • College of Art Association National Conference. Los Angeles
  • Panelist, Transformations, Invocations and Magic in contemporary. Latin American Art. Dreams and Demons. Lecturer
  • Art. Talk. Ana Mendieta-Fuego de Tierra. San Jose City College
  • Cuba in Context- a Humanities Symposium. MACLA. The Island and Exile Art. Lecture.

1998

  • Key Note Speaker. The National Art Education Association. Chicago.
  • Visiting Artist: The Photo Project. MACLA, San Jose
  • Artist Collaboration with Latino Children. 12 weeks course.

1997

  • Drawing A Contemporary Approach. Museum of Contemporary Art. Education Department. Chicago.
  • Lecture: Homosexuals in Cuban Culture. Instituto de Estudios Cubanos. Miami, Florida.
  • Lecture and slide presentation: Process and Identity on Personal Work. Hunter College, New York, N.Y.

1996

  • Lecture: Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra. Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago.
  • Lecture: Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra. Columbia College. Chicago.
  • Liberal Arts Department. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Fall Semester.
  • Drawing Class. First year program. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Visiting Artist (4 weeks). Fall semester (Santa Barraza's class).

1995

  • Visiting Artist Program. University of Montana, Missoula.
  • Visual Arts Panelist. Cuban Studies Institute. Annual Conference. Miami, Florida.

1993

  • University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design.
  • Visiting Artist. MFA Seminar.
  • University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
  • Slide presentation and lecture on personal work and on the work of Cuban artists living in the United States.

1992

  • University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design.
  • Visiting Artist. MFA Seminar Betty Rymer Gallery.
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Lecturer: The Nearest Edge of the World: Art and Cuba Now.
  • National Conference of College of Art Association. Chicago, Illinois.
  • Panelist: Influence of Santeria on Art in the United States.
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography. Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Lecture: Inside/Outside: Three Photographic Practices.
  • Hudson River Museum of Westchester. New York.
  • Gallery Talk on In Plural America: Contemporary Journeys, Voices and Identities show.

1991

  • Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, Illinois.
  • Gallery talk: Cuba-USA: The First Generation.
  • De Paul University. Center for Latino Studies.
  • Presentación Of. Video: Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra. And panel: Cuban Art and Culture: Inside and Outside Cuba.
  • De Paul University, Center for Latino Studies. Chicago, Illinois.
  • Lecture: A Crisis of Identity: What Is A Latin American in the U.S.? De Paul University. Chicago, Illinois.
  • Slide presentation, and lecture on personal work. De Paul University. Chicago, Illinois.
  • Presentation of films and discussion.
  • University of Iowa. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
  • Participant in Conference Inside-Outside Cuba: A Forum on Contemporary Cuban Art, presented by Latin America Media Arts Association. University of Iowa. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
  • Video presentation: Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra.
  • University of Iowa. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
  • Lecture: Contemporary Trends in Cuba Art throughout Cuba and U.S. Wabash College.
  • Crawfordsville, Indiana. Presentation of video Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra.
  • Lecture on the life and work of Ana Mendieta.
  • Lecture on personal work.
  • Northeastern University. Chicago, Illinois. Slide presentation and lecture on personal work.
  • Cuba Conference. Simons Island, Reynolds Plantation. Brunswick, Georgia.
  • Participant in discussions between Cubans who live inside and outside Cuba. Panelist on Cuban culture.

1990

  • 3rd Wave International Women's Films and Video Festival. Austin Media Arts, Austin, Texas.
  • Festival Guest. Panelist, Symposium: Beyond Documentary.
  • Panelist, Who's Feminism? Cross-Cultural Views of Women and Women in Media.

Book Covers, Publications, Mentions[edit]

  • Becoming Sisters; Women Photography Collectives & Organizations by Aldeide Delgado and Ana Clara Silva[50]
  • Democracy and Time in Cuban Thought. The Elusive Present by Maria de los Angeles Torres[51]
  • By Heart/De Memoria by Maria de los Angeles Torres[52]
  • Latinx Photography in the United States by Elizabeth Ferrer [53][54]
  • Home in Florida. Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness. Book cover. 2021

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