Soraya Marcano

Education M.F.A. 1995, Studio Art Pratt Institute School of Art and Design, New York 
Grants/Fellowships
  2002, 03 College Art Association Fellowship

2002 New York Foundation for the Arts –New York Recovery Fund Grant

1999 New York Sate Council on the Arts Grant, Workspace Artist, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning

1999 Manhattan Graphic Center Scholarship

1997 Visions of The Future, Jamaica Art Center

1996 Artist in the marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts

1994,1996,1991 National Endowment for the arts, Visual artist Fellowship

1992- 1994 Graduate Assistantship, Printmaking Department, Pratt Institute

1993 Scholarship for foreign studies, Institute of Puerto Rican Culture

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2002-03 Recent Work, Boricua College, New York

2002 Mixed Media Work, Mixta Gallery, New York (Reviewed)

1999-00 Recent Work, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, New York (Reviewed) 1997 Fetishes, El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, Buffalo, New York (Reviewed)

1997 Mixed Media Works, Taller Boricua, New York

1997 Symbols, Elihu Burrit Library, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut (Reviewed)

1997 Works on Paper, Work of Art Gallery, New York

1994 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Pratt Institute, New York

1992 Prints and Painting, Secretaria de Cultura y Recreación, México, DF

1991 Soraya Marcano, University of Puerto Rico Library, Humacao Campus

1991 Soraya Marcano, Colegio de Abogados, Puerto Rico

1991 Digo Presente, CHARAS, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003 Triennale Mondiale D’Estampa, Musee d’art Contemporain de Chamalieres, France


2003 En Cuerpo y Alma, Taller Boricua, New York (in conjunction with Rafael Tufiño’s exhibition, Curated by Fernando Salicrub)


2001 Art in Embassies Program, US Department of State, El Salvador (catalogue)


2001 A tale of two cities, Center for Book Arts New York and Off Centre Gallery, University of West England, Bristol (Catalogue, reviewed: Art Review Magazine, UK)


2001- 02 Get Mugged, a project and traveling exhibition in collaboration with the Manhattan Graphic Center, New York, University of West England, Bristol, and Academy of Fine Arts, AKI, Enschede, the Netherlands

 
2001 The Latin way of the world, Flushing town hall; curator Marisol Nieves, Director of Americas Society, Visual Arts; Former senior curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (catalogue)

 
2001 Nurture art in Harlem, a juried group exhibition of works on paper presented by Nurture art non- profit, at gallery M, Juror: Laurene Buckley, Director Queens Museum of Art, New York


1998 100 en la cien: 10 artistas ante el 98, Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico (catalogue)

 
1998 Artists in residence, Altos de Chavon Foundation, Dominican Republic, in affiliation with Parsons School of Design in New York

 
1998 XII Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano, Arsenal de la Marina, Puerto Rico (catalogue)


1997 Quatrieme triennale Mondiale D’estampa, Musee d’art contemporain de Chamalieres, France (catalogue)

 
1997 Myth America, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Michigan, Curator: Carol Jacobsen, visual artist (Reviewed)
1996 Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (catalogue)


1996 Zoo Isla Arte Actual, Museo de las Americas, Puerto Rico, (catalogue)


1993, 94,95 Encuentro Internacional de Grabado, Galeria DEXA, University of Panama, Panama

 
1994 Prints, SPW gallery, Korea

 
1993 Encuentro de mini expresión, Galeria DEXA, University of Panama, Panama

 

 

Visiting Artist Lectures

2001 Center for Book Arts, New York


2000 Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, New York, in conjunction with solo exhibition

 
1998 Altos de Chavon School of Design, Dominican Republic, as part of residency


1997 Taller Boricua, New York, , in conjunction with solo exhibition

 

 

Artist-in-Residence

2001 Julia and David White Colony, Costa Rica; 1999 Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, New York; 1999 Brooklyn Community Access Television and the Rotunda Gallery, New York; 1998 Altos de Chavon Foundation and School of Design, Dominican Republic in affiliation with Parsons School of Design; 1997 Millay Colony, New York; 1992 International Encounter of Art, Universidad Auntonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Public Collections

Museum of Majdanek, Poland; Museum of Contemporary Art of Chamalieres, France; Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, Puerto Rico; Fundación Centro Cultural Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic; Pratt Institute School of Art and Design, New York; Center for the Humanities, The New York Public Library, New York; Museo la casa del Libro, Puerto Rico; Panamanian Collection, University of Panama; George H Waterman III Library, New York; Rockefeller Library, Brown University, Rhode Island; White Colony, Costa Rica
Websites

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