Details
| First Name | Mónica |
| Last Name | Félix |
| Username | monicafelix |
| Bio | (b.1984) Visual artist, professional photographer, and yoga teacher from Puerto Rico, based in NYC. She has a BA in Communications from the University of Puerto Rico, a Photography Certificate from Pratt Institute, and a Visual Arts MFA from Columbia University. Félix’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Puerto Rico, Spain, Mexico and Argentina. She was granted the 2013 Lexus Scholarship for Artists, and more recently she was the featured artist of The Great Hall Exhibition at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She has participated in art residencies such as Jiwar in Barcelona, SOMA in México, LMCC’s Governors Island Summer Residency and R.A.R.O. Buenos Aires. Félix works with photography, moving image and projection, that exists within ephemeral sculpture and site-specific installation. Her work explores identity through a deeply personal story that represents the migratory experience of a queer femme body, spirituality in connection to world events. |
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| Country of residence | United States (US) |
Statement
| Statement | Visual Artist from Puerto Rico. Creating from the possibilities of narrative photography, moving image and projection within ephemeral salt sculpture and site-specific installation. Through the use of lens-based and archival images, my work navigates memory and self-exploration within the seascape—an elemental terrain that reflects the fragility and genesis of human consciousness. |
Exhibitions
| Exhibitions | Solo Exhibitions 2023 Great Hall Exhibition, NYU, New York 2020 Romance Tropical, Independently hosted Online Exhibition 2017 Retrovisor, Open Studio Project, San Juan 2014 Querida, Área, Caguas, Puerto Rico 2012 Reina, Museo de las Américas, San Juan Group Exhibitions 2026 Coming Home: en la memoria y el tiempo, En Foco at WallWorks, New York 2025 COAXAL, Galería Fémur, Buenos Aires Vaivén: 21st-Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora, K.E.N. Gallery Minneapolis Objects of Memory, Sabroso Projects, Black Brick Gallery, New York 2024 Sight/Geist, The 8th Floor, Rubin Foundation, New York Brooklyn Artists Movie Marathon, Brooklyn Museum, New York Memory Lab, Soft Network, New York 2023 In Response: The Sassoons at The Jewish Museum, New York Ida y Vuelta, Centro Gallery at Hunter College, New York 2022 Ida y Vuelta, Taller Boricua, Philadelphia 2021 SOMA Summer Exhibition, SOMA Gallery, México City MFA Thesis Exhibition, Wallach Art Gallery, New York 2020 Archivos, Visiones y Premoniciones, Taller Boricua, New York 2019 Islas imaginarias y el caso de Puerto Rico, CóMPLICES, Madrid Aesthetically Functional Only, 1675 Broadway, New York El sujeto develado, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey First Year Show, Wallach Art Gallery, New York 2017 Bestiario/Menagerie, Adobe Books Gallery, San Francisco The Future is Female, The Storefront Project, New York Debtfair/Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Ida y Vuelta, Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, San Juan Nasty Women Exhibition, The Knockdown Center, New York 2016 Interior Interruptions, ABC No Rio at Bullet Space Gallery, New York 2015 FRESCOS, Universidad Sagrado Corazón, San Juan WOCA Triennial, Walter Otero Contemporary Gallery, San Juan National Art Exhibition 2015, Museo de La Puntilla, San Juan 2014 Universos Paralelos, Hospedería Fonseca, Salamanca, Spain Universos Paralelos, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan |
Interests and medias
| Interests | Filmmaking / Video art, Photography, Sculpture, Sound art |
| Filmmaking / video art medias | Video installation, Single-channel video |
| Sculpture medias | Glass, Sand, Found objects |
| Sound intermedias | Sound installation, Sound sculpture |
| Photography | Digital image, Photographic film, Potassium dichromate, Potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate, Silver nitrate |