Joiri Minaya (born 1990)[1] is an American multidisciplinary artist of Dominican-descent.[2][3] She works with digital media, photography, film, performance, sculpture, textiles and painting.[4] Minaya is based in New York City.
Minaya's artwork is inspired by her life experience growing up in the Dominican Republic, as well as living and navigating the United States. She explores ideas of identity, in context of colonialism and stereotypes.[7][8]
Minaya has done a variety of installation-based pieces, many of which focus on patterns, textiles and their cultural implications.[9]Containers (2015) is a photography and performance art piece, first performed in Socrates Sculpture Park in 2016.[10] The work included women dressed in spandex body suits with a bright tropical print.[10]#dominicanwomengooglesearch (2016) was a hanging sculptural piece in which Minaya took images from the results of the Google Search "Dominican women", and edited them with Photoshop.[11] Each component was enlarged, printed, and hung up along with silhouettes created with tropical patterns.[11]
Minaya also works with sculpture: Perteneciente (Belonging) (2013) contains two female busts, which are connected by a thick braid of hair.[12] A more recent work is Tropticon (2018), a greenhouse in Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island, New York. The outer walls of the greenhouse are covered with images of pixelated tropical plants.[13]
Minaya was featured on Art21's series New York Close Up in 2023.[14] She created a commissioned installation for Prospect 6 in 2024 titled The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home at the New Orleans African American Museum (NOAAM), in the historic Tremé neighbor.[15]
In 2025, Joiri Minaya's work is included in Narratives in Focus: Selections from PAMM's Collection, a photography exhibition featuring a constellation of artworks from the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.[16]
Exhibitions
This is a select list of notable exhibitions by Minaya.
Solo exhibitions
2015 Doméstica Foránea, Centro de la Imagen, Santo Domingo, R.D.[17]
2016 #dominicanwomengooglesearch, Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, U.S.[18]
^"Joiri Minaya: Divergences". Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. September 9, 2020. Archived from the original on October 29, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
^aicasc, Posté par (May 14, 2016). "Remix en Caraïbe 2016". Aica Caraïbe du Sud (in French). Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
