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Artworks
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Installation photograph from Joiri Minaya: Geographic Bodies, The 8th Floor, Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, March 13 - June 14, 2025 (solo exhibition)
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The pattern for Joiri Minaya's 2021 cloaking of the Christopher Columbus statue in front of the Basilica Cathedral of Santa María la Menor, the first and oldest cathedral in the Americas, located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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Encubrimiento (de la estatua de Cristóbal Colón en el Parque Colón de la Ciudad Colonial en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana), 2021, from The Cloaking Series
Joiri Minaya
Guayacán (Rama Flor), 2020Gouache on Yupo paper14 x 11 inches
15 1/16 x 12 1/16 inches, framedJM039$ 5,000.00Further images
This painting is within the pattern of Encubrimiento (de la estatua de Cristóbal Colón en el Parque Colón de la Ciudad Colonial en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana). In Encubrimiento, after...This painting is within the pattern of Encubrimiento (de la estatua de Cristóbal Colón en el Parque Colón de la Ciudad Colonial en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana). In Encubrimiento, after being long ignored by permit-granting administrations, we covered Columbus without a permit at 5 am with a design featuring plants the Taino used to resist colonizers in the 1500's Hispaniola. It made it to national news, sparking a widespread online discussion both in support and against the action.Exhibitions
Geographic Bodies. March 13 – June 14, 2025, The 8th Floor, New York, NY.Publications
"Joiri Minaya: Geographic Bodies," Brooklyn Rail, Elizabeth Wiet, June 2025. https://brooklynrail.org/2025/06/artseen/joiri-minaya-geographic-bodies/

