Lilliam Nieves
Daniel Arnaldo-Roman
Angelika Rinnhofer
Lilliam Nieves (Puerto Rico)
Daniel Arnaldo-Roman (Puerto Rico)
Angelika Rinnhofer (New Mexico), moderator
and
Nicolás Dumit Estevez (New York), interpreter
Ely Center of Contemporary Art is delighted to organize and host these artists and their event.
Lilliam Nieves is an interdisciplinary artist based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Nieves has received numerous international residencies and recognitions for her mixed media, installation, and performance art. This includes being a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at The Studios at MASS MoCA. Nieves uses a variety of materials to manifest her investigation of the connections between women’s bodies and capitalism. Her work centers body justice and questions stereotypes of beauty and femininity by creating and documenting beauty rituals of excessive and incomprehensible nature. From 2007 to 2012, Nieves was co-founder of Trance Líquido, a contemporary arts platform in Puerto Rico. With Trance Líquido and numerous contributions to a variety of arts publications, Nieves is part of an independent arts movement in Puerto Rico that democratized documentation and discourse of contemporary Latinx art. Nieves is co-founder of Resistance Is Power Studios, alongside a group of other prolific artists in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Nieves has a Master of Fine Arts in New Media from Donau-Universität Krems in association with Transart Institute (Austria / Berlin / New York). And a Bachelor of Fine Arts from La Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, with a concentration in Art Education. -Shey Rivera
Daniel Arnaldo-Roman, a Puerto Rico-based media artist, works in code technology and experimental media and also designs responsive web environments and social print based projects. His works range from sound and movement activated installations to large-scale generative projects, photography, design and painting. Arnaldo-Roman holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (Painting) from Escuela de Artes Plasticas de Puerto Rico and a Master’s degree in New Media Art, from Donau-Universität Krems (Transart Institute). Along with Lilliam Nieves, Arnaldo-Roman also founded Trance Líquido, an art, design, music and culture blog-magazine and Grupo Probeta; a design and technology studio, creating interactive experiences for clients.
Angelika Rinnhofer (moderator) is an artist and an art educator. In her art practice, she works primarily in photography, video, dance, and performance but sometimes incorporates non-traditional art media such as baking, gaming, and trace making. In her work, she reflects on the feeling of belonging and the effect of memory on her sense of affinity.
She is the recipient of grants and two fellowships, and the New York Foundation for the Arts/ARTSPIRE granted fiscal sponsorship to her project “A Family's Secret a priori”.
Her art has been shown in solo exhibitions at Miami Beach Urban Studios, Miami; the Jewish Community Center in Dresden, Germany; the New Britain Museum of Art in New Britain, CT; at Light Work in Syracuse, NY; the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami, and the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles. In the summer of 2017, she was invited to perform aspects of her current project “A Family's Secret a priori” at the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale during the exhibition Anselm Kiefer from the Hall Collection.
Rinnhofer received her Master’s degree in Fine Arts in New Media in 2010 from Transart Institute in Berlin. Currently, she is an instructor for art and photography at CNM in Albuquerque. She is in the beginning stages of a new series about neglect and reform.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo (interpreter) treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively, through creative experiences that he unfolds within the quotidian. He has exhibited and performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, Princeton University, Anthology Film Archives, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Estévez Raful Espejo has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Residencies attended include P.S. 1/MoMA, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Estévez Raful Espejo holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he studied with Coco Fusco; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, in 2011 Estévez Raful Espejo was baptized as a Bronxite; a citizen of the Bronx. elmuseo.org/office-hours and interiorbeautysalon.com @interiorbeautysalon