Art ist Bi Os

KARLO ANDREI- IBARRA

1982, Born in San Juan Puerto Rico He lives and works in San Juan, PR Solo shows: 2007 Cada ciudad puede ser otra, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico Camino al Sol, Storehouse group, San Juan, Puerto Rico recent collective shows: 2008

DEFORMES 08, Segunda Bienal Internacional de Performance,Santiago, Chile. Being Here, Mapping the Contemporary, BUCHAREST BIENNALE 3 Rumania; Landings 8, Tai pei Fine Arts, Museum, Taiwan and Puntos Suspensivos en 356: Acciones, objetos, documentación, galeria 356, San Juan, Puerto Rico

ELIU ALMONTE -

Born in San Francisco in 1970 and educated in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Eliú Almonte now lives and works in Cancun, Mexico A multidisciplinary artist, curator, and member of the groups Chocolatero and Latinlokosforever, Alimonte has also acted as the Coordinator of CHOCOPOP, in conjunction with Richard Martell and Elvira Santamaria In addition to eight solo exhibitions in Santo Domingo, Puerto Plata, Mexico City and Miami, he has participated in group shows in numerous museums, galleries and alternative spaces in Rotterdam, Sao Paulo, Italy, New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Seoul, Santiago, London, Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Valparaiso, Caracas, Barinas, San Jose, Oslo, Guadalajara, Tijuana, Cartagena and Guadalupe The artist’s awards and scholarships include the National prize of Sculpture 1995 (Cultural Center of Spain), ExSRE Foreign Scholarship Grant 2001 (Mexico, D.F.) and Grace’s Exhibition Space Artist in Residence 2007 (The Eleanor Chilton Foundation)

PIP BRANDT

Pip Brant has degrees from the University of Montana (BFA) and the University of Wyoming (MFA) She grew up on the western Plains Indian reservations (Sioux, Cheyenne, Assiniboine) where the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Public Health employed her family She has lived and worked in Montana, Wyoming, London, England, and Missouri and in 1999 moved to Florida where she currently holds a position as associate professor in painting and drawing at Florida International University Brant's work embraces the use of absurd and humor and cites the plays and philosophies of Bertold Brecht as a major influence. She has exhibited in Belfast, Ireland, Lithuania and London, England Recent venues for solo exhibitions include the University of Wyoming Art Museum, (Tabled Reports) and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art

Museum, (The Flying Carpet and Other Reusables, 2007) In 2003 she won the South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant for Visual and Media Arts for Tabled Reports Other awards include the Wyoming Arts Fellowship and funding from the New Forms Regional Initiative for Cattle/Text Interaction

Yovani Bauta

Yovani Bauta was born in Matanzas, Cuba Before arriving in the United States, the artist taught drawing and painting in the Canary Islands, Madrid, Spain and at the National School of Art, in Havana, Cuba. Today he teaches painting at Miami Dade College, InterAmerican campus In addition to exhibiting extensively in Cuba throughout the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, Bauta has shown in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally His current work, Mapping Bodies, a series of paintings, prints and drawings, are currently showing in venues around the United States and Europe

Caryana Castillo

Caryana Castillo is a painter, installation and performance artist who currently lives and works in Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic She recently opened her debut solo exhibit Caryana Castillo, Primera Individual at the Motif Art Gallery in Sosua and most recently has participated in the following exhibitions: Landings 4, Museum of Art and Contemporary Design of San José, Costa Rica; Landings 5, Museum of Art of the Americas in Washington DC; Art Miami with District & Co Art Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Plural Miami at Edge Zones, Miami (during Art Basel Miami Beach); Suite Quisqueya: New Dominican Paintings, District & Co , Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Red Room, Edge Zones, Miami (during Art Basel Miami Beach); and Performance: III, Theate Teresa Carreño, Caracas Venezuela

Claudio Castillo

Cuban born watercolor and animation artist, Claudio Castillo was raised and educated in Europe and has been painting and exhibiting watercolors for over thirty years Since 1980 he has been dedicated to animation, video, film and computer programming In 1983 he founded Celefex, a computer animation software company and production studio in New York City Having moved to in Miami in 1992, Castillo launched Digitalis, an art and animation production company. He continues to work in Miami as a watercolor artist, video editor and animator In the late 1990’s, as available technologies became more advanced, Castillo began to experiment with merging these forms of artistic expression, refining his proprietary animation software to enable ever seamless watercolor/animation displays By taking advantage of advances in both hardware and software Castillo is now able to produce personally programmable “Living Paintings” that display virtually updated, never repeating compositions

Hope Conner

Hope Conner is an emerging artist currently working and residing in central Florida She received her bachelor's degree in painting from Ringling College of Art and Design. Conner has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Florida, including the Lake Eustis Museum of Art, Eustis FL, and Edge Zones, Miami FL and was recently featured in Ocala Magazine

Carola Dreidemie

Carola Dreidemie graduated with an MFA Texas Woman's University and Pratt Institute Her Latin American roots and personal search for self-definition drives her to scrutinize difference theoretically and literally In All Eyez on U S , her camera becomes an impertinent observer that acts as the 'other' through which the subject's identity is re-defined and re-contextualized For this project, the camera is placed directly in front of the subject and sometimes intrusively close to their body The resulting images evoke a police line up and an anthropological study. This refers to society's feelings of xenophobia and racism that commonly fuse otherness with criminality

Ivan Toth Depe A

Ivan Toth Depeña is currently working as an artist and designer in Miami, Florida Ivan has studied art, architecture and graphic design at Pratt Institute and the University of Miami and received his Masters in Architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design Recent exhibitions include, Melissa Morgan Fine Art in Palm Springs, The Museum of Fine Art Lauderdale, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Light and Atmosphere (solo) at Ingalls & Associates, and Miami in Transition (solo) at Miami Art Museum

Depeña was a recipient of both the 2005 and 2008 South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant and Artist Access Grants as well as being a 2006 finalist in the Cintas Foundation Fellowship His work is included in several critically lauded public and private collections and has been reviewed and mentioned in various newspapers/publications including Contemporary Art Magazine, Art in America, Blueprint, Closer, Washington Post, The Miami Herald, The New Times and the Sun Sentinel

Elvin Diaz

Artista multidisciplinario Es Arquitecto egresado de la Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), Santo Domingo (2003) Se incursiona en el arte como autodidacta, formación que amplía a través de diversos cursos y talleres de pintura, fotografía, asesoría en el arte, teorías del arte, papel manufacturado, instalación y video-arte que se han impartido en el Museo de Arte Moderno, Centro Cultural de España en Santo Domingo, Casa de Arte y Centro León en Santiago Tiene un diplomado en estudios de performance de la FLACSO, Santo Domingo (2006) Desde sus inicios, el interés por trabajar el arte y la arquitectura de manera interdisciplinaria ha sido evidente Obtuvo su grado de Arquitecto con el tema de estudio la “Interrelación arte-ciudad: Ciudad de Altos estudios Artísticos” En el año 2004, crea e inicia en la ciudad de Santiago, R D el proyecto “Videoarte-Ciudad: Santiago”, que durante 9 días, se proyectó sobre 9 de los edificios, monumentos y calles más emblemáticos de la ciudad, video-artes que tenían como interés principal la ciudad Luego, explora el Video Op en el 3er encuentro internacional de performance, Chocopop 2005 en Puerto Plata A partir del año 2006, trabaja y profundiza junto a Ching Ling Ho, el tema del arte, la arquitectura y la tridimensionalidad, tomando como punto de partida el Op Art + Arquitectura = Op Arq, propuesta que fue seleccionada para participar en la categoría experimental en la VIII Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Santo Domingo, 2006 Crea videoinstalaciones en exposiciones como el Arte Barceló 2006, con la obra “El túnel ecoplasmático” y “Tombo” , seleccionado en la XXI Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jiménez, Santiago R D (2006)

Polibio Diaz

Born in Barahona, Dominican Republic, Polibio Díaz began his studies in photography at Texas A&M University where he graduated in Civil Engineering

His work has been collected in the books: Scarecrows from the South (J Miller), Editora Corripio, 1984; Images of Carnival (J Miller/ F Lizardo / R Tibol / P Verges / M Rueda), H G Graphis, USA, 1993; An Island, a Landscape, (M Tolentino / Raul-Joan Moulin, with a poem by Manuel Rueda) Serigraf, D R 1998; and Interiors (Ricardo Ramón Jarne/Antonio Zaya)

Edited by the Santo Domingo Museum of Modern Art, D.R. (2006). Diaz has exhibited in Europe, Asia and the Americas and the Biennials of Havana, Venice, and the Caribbean In 2000 he participated in 100 Years of Photography, 1899-1999: Personal Visions of the 20th Century, at Discovery Museum of Bridgeport, Connecticut, U S A

Natalia Domiguez

Born in El Salvador in 1977, Natalia Dominguez studied fine art in Mexico City Her work centers on humor and dramatic characters as well as bordering the limits of reality and the absurd. She has exhibited in Central America, USA, Taiwan and Mexico

Thelma Leonor Espinal

Santiago de los Caballeros, República Dominicana, 1976 Artista destacada de la generación de los 90's, con una reconocida trayectoria y participación en los principales concursos, bienales y exposiciones de arte contemporáneo en el país. Obteniendo premios y reconocimientos en el área Con más de 50 exposiciones en R D , sus trabajos han sido expuestos en países como: España, Argentina, Chile y Suiza Realizó su primera individual: "La casa de todos nosotros" en el 2000 en Casa de Arte, Santiago Participación en bienales y concursos de arte, tales como: La XX, IXX, XVIII y XVII presentación del Concurso de Arte Eduardo E León Jimenes, la XXII Bienal de Artes Visuales del Museo de Arte Moderno, La I Bienal de Arte "Paleta de Níquel" del Museo Cándido Bidó y la partipación en exposiciones paralelas a la IV y V Bienal del Caribe organizada por el Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo, entre otras Sus obras se encuentran publicadas en importantes tomos de arte, entre ellos: "Mujer y Arte Dominicano, 1844-2000" y ¨ Arte dominicano en el contexto histórico, escritos ambos por Jeannette Miller. "Siglo XX en las Artes Visuales Dominicanas/ The XX Century in Dominican Visual Arts", Tomo III, por Cándido Gerón y "1844- 2002, Arte Contemporáneo y No Convencional en República Dominicana", realizado por las críticas de arte: Jeannette Miller y María Urgarte Ha recibido importantes reconocimientos y premios, entre ellos en el 2000: el Primer Lugar y una Mención de Honor al Concurso Nacional de Pintura Joven de su país 2001- Beca por la Comunidad de Madrid para representar a R D en el Taller Iberoamericano de Pintura, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, EspañaEs Licenciada en Mercadeo de la PUCMM con una especialidad de Postgrado en Gestión Cultural por el Ministerio de Cuba y la UASD, R D Estudió artes visuales en la Escuela de Diseño Altos de Chavon y en la Escuela de Bellas Artes, así como múltiples cursos de grabado, dibujo y cerámica, con reconocidas profesionales y maestros del arte de su país OBRAS EN COLECCIONES: Colección de Arte Iberoamericano de la Comunidad de Madrid, España Estudio de Arte Molinaro, Argentina.

Teo Freytes

Vive y trabaja en Puerto Rico Maestro multidisciplinario, Teo es conocido por sus obras de fuerte contenido, su constante experimentación con los nuevos lenguajes en el arte Pionero en el uso de la computadora y el espacio virtual para la creación de obras También es conocido por sus performances en diversos eventos y como Director de la M.S.A., espacio experimental que operó durante seis años, y en el cual se realizaron un sinúmero de proyectos Dirigió el primer taller de diseño e impresión gráfica digital Colibrí Digital Imaging ; actualmente es socio del estudio D igital Media Zone, taller dedicado al diseño gráfico y desarrollo de proyectos en la red cibernética Es uno de los artistas invitados a la Bienal de San Juan de este año y la Bienal de Cuenca. Fue muralista junto a Rafael Rivera García, ex Director de la Oficina de Cultura de Fortaleza, realizando un sinnúmero de murales a través de toda la Isla En South Bayshore, Miami también cuenta con un mural de Freytes y Rivera Garcîa Teo Freytes también ofrece talleres de arte digital a niños y jóvenes estudiantes a través del Proyecto Maíz de Casa Paoli en Ponce Recientemente instaló su pieza EL Toque, conjunto escultórico, en la Plaza Barceló de Barrio Obrero El Toque forma parte del proyecto de Arte Urbano del Municipio de San Juan durante la pasada administración Ha fungido como profesor y conferenciante en la Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico; la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Universidad Interamericana; Moderador Foro Online para la Bienal del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe

Lauren Garber Lake

Lauren Garber Lake was born in Tampa, Florida, and lives in Gainesville, Florida, where she is and Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Florida, School of Art and Art History Her artworks utilize an economy of means and delineation Her pictorial creations use and reference the mnemonic device of her late mother's vestiges, specifically incomplete quilt squares collected by the artist

Vanessa Garcia

Vanessa Garcia, a writer and visual artist, graduated from Columbia University’s Barnard College Recent shows include Off the Wall produced by The Krane; Fast in Wynwood, curated by Jordan Massengale; Intimate Bodies, Public Spaces at the Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco; Locust Projects Raffle, Locust Projects, Miami; and Pregon, for Miami Dade Public Library call and Response Series

Giovanni Gil

Born in 1971, San Salvador, El Salvador, Central America

He studied arts at the National Center of the Arts in El Salvador (CENAR)

He studied in Habana, Cuba, experimental silk-screen printing, he traveled to Japon to study the culture, the arts and the galleries and museums. he has participated aproximately in eighty colective exhibitions nationally and world wide

Sayuri Guzman

An artist, critic and teacher in the Dominican Republic Sayuri Guzman began her explorations of performance art in 2005, and has since performed in several national and international events including: The pain of others, Edge Zones, Miami, FL USA; 6th Encounter of Policies and Performances CORPOLITICAS 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 1st Air Festival, Falcon, Venezuela; III Corporal Art Encounter, Caracas Venezuela; 24 National Biennial of Visual Arts, Dominican Republic In addition she has also organized and curated performance events in Santo Domingo for Art-Studio, an organization she Co-founded with Clara Caminero

Rita Indiana Hernandez

Referred to as one of the two most important voices in Dominican literature, Rita Indiana Hernández published her first novel La Estrategia de Chochueca at age 21 This coming of age tale about Dominican kids gained an immediate cult following. Together with her second novel Papi, the life and times of a Dominicanyork mobster seen through the eyes of his eight yearold daughter, these narratives lay out a Caribbean postmodern landscape that traces and subverts the legacy of other Caribbean artists such as writer Garcia Marquez or director Gutiérrez Alea In addition to literature accolades, Hernandez is a prolific multimedia artist known for her many interventions, action art pieces and video art both in and outside of the Dominican Republic She has also directed, written, and produced theater, television, commercials and short films Her works are being taught and discussed by professors and students in institutions across the United States, Latin America and Europe such as Berkeley University, Cornell University, University of Notre Dame, NYU, Universidad de Puerto Rico and Universitet Antwerpen de Bélgica, among others.

Rachel Hoffman

An MFA graduate in Studio Art from the University of South Florida, Rachel Hoffman's work encompasses performance art, installation, photography, video, painting, costume, and body adornment Exhibiting both nationally and internationally, Hoffman has taken her performance art to museums, universities, galleries, public spaces, and underground sites in Miami, New York, Mexico City, Santo Domingo, Madrid, San Francisco, Dallas, Baltimore, San Juan, and others In addition she teaches courses in Color Theory, Design, Drawing, and Art History at the Art Institute of Tampa, and is a contributing writer for M/TheNewYorkArtWorld

BERTA JAYO

Her work is included in Luis Camnitzer “last book” at The Spanish National Library, several books edited by Cantabria Government, Caja Cantabria and Caja Madrid, ISCP New York, She has an MA fine Art degree from Chelsea College in London, Stock 7 Dresden, Berlín, Exit Art Barcelona, Revistart Barcelona, ABC, El mundo, El País, Ronda Iberia, Art es, El Diario Montañes Cantabria, Cantabria Infinita, Arco 07, North Collection book Berta Jayo is the recipient of grants most recently: Caja Madrid, Cantabria Government, Art Observatory, Caja Cantabria, National Sculpture Prize, Casimiro Sainz National painting prize, Cantabria Artist Prize

ARLYN JIMENEZ (Bulova)

Born on December 11, 1978 in the Dominican Republic, Buloya is a sculptor and yearly participant in the performance festival CHOCOPOP. Through the use of scrap iron and recycled materials his work comments upon the lifecycles of the social problems which beset the Dominican Republic

LUISE JOHNSON

Born in San Salvador, El Salvador Photographer, Collage and installation Artist Lives and works in Key Largo FL, where she has her studio. She earned her BS in Communications and Photography from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; and an MFA from Miami International University of Art & Design, Miami, FL Recent exhibitions include: Naturalis, Solo Show, Edge Zones, Miami; Recent group exhibitions include: Flat, Miami, FL; Zones Art Fair, Miami, FL; Art of Uncertainty, San Salvador, El Salvador; Reassessing the Diaspora, Museo de las Casas

Reales, Santo Domingo; Transparencies, Edgezones, Miami, FL; Re- Flowering the Garden: Women and Nature, St James, NY; Femi-nine, Miami, FL; Esperanto, Miami, FL; Lucid, Miami, FL; Private Spaces, Miami Shores, FL.

H Ctor Madera

Hector Madera-Gonzalez was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico in 1977. In 2004, he graduated from the

School of Visual Arts of San Juan and participated in a residency offered by the Foundation Antonio Ratti in Italy under the tutelage of artist Jimmie Durham Through diverse media that includes painting, photography, sculpture and installation, the artist comments on the different levels of cultural issues such as social, economical and political esthetics Selected exhibitions include: Optical Borderline, a housing development project in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico; Migrations to/from the Caribbean, Madrid ARCO; and Art of Uncertainty, San Salvador

Gabriel Mart Nez

Born in 1967, Miami, FL Gabriel Martinez received his BFA from the University of Florida in 1989; MFA, Tyler School of Art, 1991; Skowhegan School of Sculpture & Painting, 2003 For works in a variety of mediums including photography, installation, performance, sculpture, works on paper, and video, Martinez received a Pew Fellowship Arts Grant in 2001 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors in 2003 He is also the recipient of two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships He has been an artist-in-residence at the Rosenbach Museum and Library and the Fabric Workshop and Museum, both in Philadelphia in addition to placements at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida; Arcadia Summer Arts Program, Maine; MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire; and Yaddo, New York. Martinez teaches photography and installation for the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania where he is currently the coordinator of the undergraduate photography department. Martinez’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at prominent spaces such as Bernice Steinbaum Gallery and Miami Art Central in Miami, FL; ABC No Rio, Thread Waxing Space, White Columns, Exit Art & Franklin Furnace in New York; Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in Athens, GA; Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Muu Gallery in Helsinki, Finland; and extensively in Philly at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, the Art Alliance, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art and Vox Populi Martinez’s work is represented by Samson Projects in Boston where he had his first solo commercial gallery exhibition entitled Self-Portraits in November 2007

Checo Merette

An active artist in Puerto Plata since he was a young boy, Merette is a performance artist and prolific painter His recent work employs the preoccupation with disappearing local environments and human disregard for the natural world, specifically the whales in the Puerto Plata bay.

Robert Miller

Robert Miller ’s influence in the art world has spanned decades Originally trained as a painter, he began his career as a major art dealer, eventually owning his own gallery in Manhattan Now resident in Miami, Miller has returned to painting and has found new devotion in the practice of Tibetan Buddhism which serves as a primary source of inspiration for his art. Recently shown collections of his works have included the Tibetan Song Bowl series; the Lama Norlha series; Remembering the Future and Thoughts on Mt Kailash. Miller has exhibited at Dorathy Blau Gallery, Miami ; Brook Dorsch Gallery, Miami; J Johnson GalleryJacksonville, FL; Broward County Public Library, FL; Miami-Dade Public Library Main Branch, FL; Odegard, Miami Edge Zones, Miami; World Arts Building, Miami; Florida International University and New Miami Beach Public Library where he showed In Perpetuity, an installation ion consisting of 10 large pieces from the Lama Norlha series

Alexia Miranda

Born in El Salvador, Alexia Miranda lives and works in El Salvador and studies humanities, psychology and psycho-corporal recovery language in Las Americas, Puebla, México, in addition to contemporary dance in the National Ballet of El Salvador, and in Puebla Miranda has exhibited her performance, experimental video art, and installation based work in countries such as México, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, USA, Cuba, and Lithuania Select exhibitions include: Museum of Modern Art Cárlos Mérida, Guatemala city; MARTE (Museum of Modern Art, El Salvador); Forma Museum, Foundation Julia Díaz; and Transcultura at Cultural Center Of Spain curated by: Ps1 MoMA, Alana Lockward, and Rebeca Dávila from the National Center Of Arts; Art Of Uncertainty with Edge Zones for Zones Contemporary Art Fair, Miami and After Urban, and Liquid Room curated by Art Expo-Group Luca Curci Her work has obtained awards and first place recognitions in Bienal de Arte Paíz, El Salvador, and Festival Internacional de Arte Digital, Fundación Clic; and has obtained second place prizes in the Mujer Rompe Tu Silencio, a poetry festival for women lead by Concultura, El Salvador In addition she has been awarded with an Honor Mention from the Cultural Center of Spain, in the Premio the Arte Joven, El Salvador

Citlally Miranda

Citlally Miranda is a drawer, painter, and performance artist working out of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic Her recent solo exhibitions include: Painting and Drawings, Motif Art Gallery, Sosua,R.D.; Images of

Unconscious, Casa de Tostado Museum, Colonial Zone, Santo Domingo, DR ; and Medium, Ramon Oviedo Art Gallery, Santo Domingo DR Her recent group exhibits include: The two art exhibition Ambito Visual and Artist in Two ways Writers who paint, and Painters who Write IX, International fair of Books, El Hombre Dominicano Museum, Santo Domingo,D R ; Day of the Artist, CODAP (School of fine art artists),Colonial Zone, Santo Domingo, D R ; Synesthesy, (execution and performance sound art project) DUAL+, Ramón Oviedo Art Gallery, Santo Domingo, D.R.; XXIV National Biennale, Performance of sound works 1 Urban and Time and Sound and Noise and Time, Modern Art Museum, Santo Domingo, D R ; VI International Drawing Salon, Modern Art Museum, Santo Domingo, D.R.; The International Caribbean Art Fair, The Puck Building, New York City, U S A; First Honor Mention at Casa de Teatro International paint Contest, Casa de Teatro, Colonial Zone, Santo Domingo, R D

Aurora Molina

Aurora Molina was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1984 and received her Associates of Arts in Visual Arts from Miami Dade College and her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Mixed Media from Florida International University She currently resides in Miami, Florida, where she works as a full time artist

Gustavo Naranjo

A sound artist, musician and composer, Gustavo studied audio production at Omega School of Recording Arts in Rockville, Maryland. His album Pascha was distributed by Universal Music, Mexico His music has been featured on National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, DC; iTunes; Pump Audi; and Bug Music His sound art has been exhibited at Florida State Museum in Tallahassee, Florida; The Corcoran Gallery of Art; and Georgetown University Art Gallery, Washington, DC Gustavo is a native of Mexico City and resides in Orlando, Florida He is producer and founder of 24hr Sounds

Charo Oquet

Charo Oquet, a Miami-based artist whose work spans painting photography, performance and installation, was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and received a BFA from Florida International University Oquet has had numerous international solo exhibitions at museums and galleries such as the Bass Museum in Miami; Casal Solleric, Palma, Mallorca; Convento de Santo Domingo, Lanzarote Cannary Islands, Spain and has participated in prestigiously curated group exhibitions such as Art Religion and Politics (2005) curated by Jean-Huber Martin; Mami Watta, curated by Henry Drewal at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, (2008); After Columbus com, Kunstnerne Hus, Oslo, Norway, (2003); V Biennal del Caribe’03, Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo; En Ruta PR’02, M&M Projects Puerto Rico, curated by Antonio Zaya; Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) Gran Canarias, Spain; and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, N.Z. In 1996 Oquet founded the non-profit arts organization Miami Arts Collaborative, which in 2004 assumed its current title Edge Zones With Edge Zones, Oquet has curated numerous exhibitions and showcased Dominican and Miami artists nationally and internationally by creating year-round programs and published 4 books (Miami Now (2005), Wet (2006), Wet II (2007) and Supermix (2008)) which include the works of hundreds of Florida and internationally based artists Oquet is also the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards incuding: Florida State Artists Fellowship Award; State of Florida Artists Enhancement Grant; South Florida Cultural Consortium 2005 Visual and Media Artists Fellowship Award; Creative Capital Grant; South Florida Cultural Artists Access Grant; New Forms Florida Grant; and QE II Arts Council of N Z Artist Fellowship 84, 85 and 86 In addition being reviewed by the Miami Herald, Atlantica Art Journal, African Arts, Art in America, Art Nexus and Art New Zealand, Oquet has been included in many publications including but not limited to New Hoodoo Art of a Forgotten Faith (2008); Files by Octavio Zaya; Miami Contemporary Artists; New Zealand's National Museum Te Papa Calendar (2009); Dominican Contemporary Artists, Supermix and a book dedicated to her work that was published by Antonio Zaya in 2002

Natalia Schonowski

Natalia Schonowski was born to a Colombian mother and a German father in Bogotá, Colombia in 1984; she now lives and works in Miami where she received an Associate in Arts in Visual Arts from Miami Dade College and her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Mixed Media from Florida International University

CARLOS ORTIZ SORIANO

Carlitos Ortiz Soriano lives and works in Santo

Domingo, D R His work is based in social interaction, sexuality, migration and the defragmentation of the artist statement On one hand, he works as a cultural activist On the other, his daily work is based in the media, leaving little to the artistic creation. As a writer, he has published Foam (short stories, available online) and miscellaneous texts for art, culture and social magazines and webzines As a performance artist, his works tell stories of cultural and indi- vidual identity in the Caribbean, its construction, evolution and representation His work in video and photo is the reaction of both performance and literature and visual experiments

Soriano has participated in international performance and visual arts workshops and exhibitions, in addition to several contemporary art fairs He is currently working in music, creating sound works which incorporate the characteristics of performance He collaborated in projects similar to these such as Los Niños Envueltos, before establishing Carnegato, a project based on the radio show he co produces.

Hugo Patao

Born in Camagüey, Cuba, in 1972, Patao now lives and works in Miami, FL. Having studied at Professional Art School, Camaguey, Cuba, and Tidewater College, Virginia Beach, VA, his work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally Recent shows include: (Solo) MMI + BN, Edge Zones, Miami; (Group) Re-mapping, Museo De Las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, DR (Group); On Paper, Son Espace, Girona, Spain (Group); Plural Miami, Edge Zones, Miami (Group); Art In The Tropics, Bank Of America Tower, Miami (Group); Scramble It, Edge Zones, Miami (Group); Draw, Son Espace, Girona, Spain (Group); Wet, Edge Zones, Miami (Group); and Collage De Amigos, La Boheme Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL (Group).

Jose Pion

Jose Piòn is a self-taught painter and sound art artist working out of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Recent solo exhibits include: Gatto Gattos, Casa de Teatro, Santo Domingo, D R ; Dinamos, Centro de la Cultura, Puerto Plata, D R ; and Veo Veo, Casa de Tostado Museum, Santo Domingo, D.R. Recent group exhibits include: Marginal Biennial of Santa Barbara, Santo Domingo, D R ; and VI International Drawing Salon, Modern Art Museum, Santo Domingo, D R Awards include First Prize winner of 2006 international art contest, Casa de Teatro, Santo Domingo, D R , and winner of National Biennale in Dominican Republic with the sound art works and performance 1 Urbano, and Tiempo y sonido y Ruido y Tiempo (1 Urban and Time and Sound and Noise and Time)

E. BRADY ROBINSON

E Brady Robinson received her BFA in photography from The Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and her MFA in photography from Cranbrook Art Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Her photographs have been exhibited nationally at The Aspen Art Museum, Cranbrook Art

Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art and Florida State Museum Additional gallery exhibitions in Washington, DC include Strand on Volta in Georgetown (2005) and Troyer Gallery in Dupont Circle (2004) Her recent solo exhibition Shift features new photographs curated by photographer Chan Chao and was on exhibit last fall at Flashpoint Gallery in Washington, DC.

Robinson is a native of Virginia and resides in Orlando, Florida She is Assistant Professor in the MFA in Studio Art and the Computer Graduate Program at University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Bert Rodriguez

Born 1975 in Miami, Florida, Rodriguez lives and works in Miami, Florida. In the tradition of Joseph Beuys, Rodriguez’s conceptual practice relies heavily on process and performance His recent work which projects both empathy and distaste for its audience centers on the artist’s digestion and regurgitation of life experience Various recent participatory events such as A Meal I Made With My Mother (Paris), foot massages at Frieze London, and In The Beginning a project for which the artist conducted several 45 minute therapy sessions in a white cube installed in the Colonel’s Room at the 7th Regiment Park Avenue Armory Building for the Whitney Biennial 2008 have led to the phrase inception of the phrase ‘service aesthetics’. Recent solo exhibitions: In Your Own Image: The Best of Bert Rodriguez Greatest Hits Vol 1, Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London; Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Advertising Works!, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami Recent group shows: Disappearances, Shadows & Illusions, Miami Art Museum, Miami; Espace Experimental, Le Plateau, FRAC Ile de France, Paris; Intervenciones 2007, MARTE, Museum of Art El Salvador, 60 Second Video Art Festival, Touring Exhibition, USA + EU; Pressing Pause, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN Public collections: Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City Rodriguez is currently represented by Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami

Margaret Ross Tolbert

Margartet Ross Tolbert is a painter and performance artist in Gainesville, Florida Her explorations and immersion in thie the freshwater springs of the Florida aquifer.generate paintings, performances and series of lenticular images about Sirena, springs denizen The images, narrative and dances from sites on the Silk Road and ancient trade routes form another continuing series. Recent solo exhibits include: Margaret Ross Tolbert: Doors, University of Richmond Museums, Richmondm VA, Passages, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Springs Eternal Gulf Coast Art Museum, Largo, FL, , Aquifer, LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans, LA; Recent group exhibits include: Jord, Eld, Vaten, Martenpersskalla, Brantevik, Sweden, Tiden, Gallery Infra, Sweden, American Confluence, Edsvik Konsthall, Sollentuna, Sweden; WET, Edgezones, Miami; Performances: in Reassessing the Diaspora, Edgezones, Santa Domingo, DR ,ENERGY, Brantevik Sweden and Shands Arts in Medicine, Gainesville, Website: margaretrosstolbert com

KATHY ROSE

Received her B.F.A. in Film from the Philadelphia College of Art, and her M F A in Animation from the California Institute of the Arts Rose's work has evolved from her early drawn animated films of the 1970's, through her unique, pioneering performance work combining dance with film in the 1980-90's, to her current surreal performance video spectacles and installations, with influence from symbolist art and the Japanese Noh theater Kathy Rose received a Guggenheim in Performance Art in 2003 and has toured extensively in live performance including the Museum of Modern Art, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Walker Art Center,The Kitchen, ICA/London, Akademie der Kunste/Berlin, etc Her video installation works have been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum and Aldrich Museum Recent videos have been exhibited in Dance 07 Dance/Video festival /Edinburgh, Dance on Camera/Lincoln Center , Montage video dance Festival, Tulca Season of Visual Art/Galway,Ireland Kathy Rose resides in Philadelphia and is a Master Lecturer at The University of the Arts teaching an interdisciplinary workshop called Image and Performance, as well as Dance/Film/Video

Abdiel D Segarra

Born in Santurce Puerto Rico, 1984 He earned his bachelor ’s degree in the Painting Department at Escuela de Artes Plásticas de San Juan (San Juan School of Plastic Arts) Since 2005 Director of the i n d e p e n d e n t m a g a z i n e a n d p l a t f o r m : C o n b o c a , I n c and Art Tracking Project, where he works as a curator, gallery director, and art coordinator

Francis Taylor

Artista dominicano Inicia sus estudios teatrales en 1988 De 1989 a 1993 forma parte del grupo teatral “Califé”, período durante el cual se desempeña como instructor para grupo de teatros barriales. En

1994 dirige “Santo Circo”, obra de su autoría, presentada en el Festival de Teatro Joven de Bellas Artes En ese mismo año dirige la obra “los Trillizos”, creación colectiva de jóvenes talentos de la Escuela de Bellas Artes En este mismo año presenta también los performances “Retrato de Críticos” en el desaparecido Hostal Nicolás de Ovando y “Cenizas”, pieza presentada en el Centro Cultural de España. De 1993 al 1997 forma parte del “Taller de Danza Moderna” Se ha desempeñado como co-director para la compañía “Preludio” en los montajes “La Muerte del Cisne”, “El Sembrador”, “La Muñeca”, presentados en los “Encuentros de Coreógrafos Contemporáneos” de 1996 a 1998 En 1998 Obtiene una beca del Ministerio de Cultura y Educación de España para realizar estudios de Producción y Gestión Cultural en el “Centro de Tecnología del Espectáculo” en Madrid Desde el 1999 al 2002 forma parte de la compañía “Poy-Marenco Danza Contemporánea” destacándose como interprete en los montajes “Dialogo de Huellas”, “El Internado”, “Transformaciones”, entre otros Su incursión en la danza lo ha llevado a centrar su atención en el cuerpo y de allí al performance En este renglón destacan sus trabajos “La Espera”, “Suspendida” (ambos presentados en el año 2002), “Reality Show”, “Ya sé Leer” (Centro Cultural de España, 2003), “Sukiyaki” (Palacio de Bellas Artes, 2004), “Sukiyaki II” (Escuela Nacional de Arte Dramático, 2005), “Cuatro Rezadoras Pagadas para Rezar por el País” (Festival Internacional de Santo Domingo, 2006), Sahimi de Deus (Teatro Guloya, Santo Domingo, 2008), Deglución (Museo de la Cerámica Contemporánea, Santo Domingo, 2008)

Raimundo Travieso

Born in Cuba. Lives and works in Miami, Florida. Select Solo Exhibitions: 2006 - TO DRAW IS TO MEDITATE, Edge Zones, Miami, FL; 2003 - South Art, Miami, FL; 1999 - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; 1997 - The Clean Machine, Miami Beach, FL - Select Group Exhibitions: 2006COLLECTIVE SHOW, Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery, Miami, FL; A WELL KEPT SECRET, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL; REASSESING THE DIASPORA, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana; 2005 - DRAW, Son Espace, Girona, Spain; AZUL LIQUIDO, Quinta Dominica, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana; CUBAN ART IN NEW YORK, Dactyl Foundation, New York, NY; THE CONSTRUCTORS, Alejandra Von Hartz Fine Arts, Miami, FL; GROWTH SPURT, Edge Zones, Miami, FL; WET, Edge Zones, Miami, FL; BEYOND ALL OF THAT…, Edge Zones, Miami, FL; 2004 - MIAMI

NOW, Edge Zones, Miami, FL; INDEX MIAMI, Edge Zones, Miami,FL; 2003 - Centro Cultura di Aruba, Aruba; Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL E-mail: travie@bellsouth net

Norma Vila Rivero

Born in Puerto Rico in 1982, Norma Vila Rivero graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of the Sacred Heart from which she also received a Bachelors Degree in Mass Communications with a concentration in Visual Arts She has since worked as a curator, coordinator and art teacher in the principal museums of Puerto Rico She is currently doing a Masters Degree in Art Administration Recent group exhibitions include: ABSURDO, Galeria La 15, P R ; Actions, the workplace and the ephemeral,Galeria Pepin, P R ; Terruno y Paraiso Perdido, dialogos con la obra de Carlos Ocasio, Museo de Arte de Caguas, P R ; Lies, Another Roadside Attraction, UK; BASTARDOS, Petrus Gallery, P R ; Remapping the CARIBBEAN, Museo de Las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, D R ; Colectivo ANGORA, Angora Industrial Area, P R ; Muestra Nacional de Artes Plasticas 0506, Arsenal de la Puntilla, P R

Magali Wilensky

Magali Wilensky was born in Argentina in 1984, and graduated from Miami International University of Art and Design with a BA in Visual Arts in 2006. Recent solo exhibitions include Roll Up, Dorsch Gallery, Miami; and Inspiroll, Edge Zones, Miami Recent group shows include: Wrap, Surface library, East Hamptom, NY; Iberoamericana, First bank of Miami, Coral Gables; Deviant Behavior (National Juried Exhibition), Artformz; Stretching the Threads, Atlantic Center of the Arts (ACA) New Smyrna Beach; Organic, Edge Zones, Miami; Bridge Art Fair with Dorsch Gallery; 20 questions, Dorsch Gallery, Miami; Threat Count, Dosrch Gallery, Miami; This, That, and the other, Edges Zones, Miami; Quiet, Lombardi Property, Miami; Soda, Orange Gallery, Miami; and Fourmation, Estefano Art Center, Miami

FRANCISCO I. ZAYAS

(San Salvador, 1946)He began his Studies of Architecture at the University of El Salvador, moved to study fine Arts at California Collage of Arts and Crafts (United States) and Graphic Design at University

“Dr José Matías Delgado” (El Salvador) Since 1974 has participated in individual and collective exhibitions in El Salvador, United States, Guatemala, Panama His works are at important private collections at the present time is part of the permanent collection of “reVisions: Encounters with the Salvadorian Art” at