LINA PUERTA

LA HUERTA Y YO/THE GARDEN AND I
LINA PUERTA
THROUGH AUGUST 15, 2021

2019-2020 Artist-in-Residence Lina Puerta creates mixed media sculptures, installations, collages, handmade-paper paintings and wall hangings by combining a wide range of materials, from artificial plants and paper pulp to found, personal and recycled objects. Her work draws from her experience as a Colombian-American artist, examining the relationship between nature and the human-made, and engaging themes of food justice, xenophobia, hyper-consumerism, and ancestral knowledge. Her most recent work centers around Indigenous relationships with the natural world and what they can teach us about alternative ways of living that will not only improve our livelihood, but ensure a sustainable and biodiverse future for generations to come.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Lina Puerta was born in NJ, raised in Colombia and lives and works in New York City. She earned an MS from Queens College/CUNY and is the recipient of several residencies and grants including: the 2017 NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture, 2016 Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, 2015 Kohler Arts Industry Residency (WI), 2013-14 Smack Mellon Art Studio Program,2014 Materials for the Arts, 2013 Wave Hill Winter Workspace and the 2010 Emerging Artist Fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park in New York.

Exhibition venues include: 21C Museum Hotels, Bentonville AR and Louisville, KY; Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Ford Foundation Gallery, The Museum of Biblical Art, El Museo del Barrio, Socrates Sculpture Park, The 8th Floor, Wave Hill, Geary Contemporary, NYC; Pi-Artworks, London and H-Gallery, Paris.

Puerta's work has been written about in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Art News and The Brooklyn Rail among others.