Pepe Coronado
Apertura 002, 2017
Monotype (roll ink on plexiglass) on BFK gray paper
Image: 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm.)
Paper: 24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
This work is unique
Provenance: Courtesy of the Artist
Pepe Coronado was born and raised in the Dominican Republic and currently resides between New York City and Austin, Texas. Coronado is a founding member of the print collective Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA, founder of Coronado Print Studio, and was a resident teaching artist at the Hudson River Museum in New York. He has taught printmaking at Purchase College School of Art and Design, SUNY; at the Corcoran College of Art; Georgetown University; and at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where he earned the Master of Fine Arts. Coronado was a master printer for Pyramid
Atlantic in Silver Spring, Maryland; the Hand Print Workshop International in Alexandria, Virginia; and the Serie Print Project in Austin, Texas. He has been a visiting artist at Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles.
Coronado’s most recent solo exhibitions include Interactions: Borders, Boundaries and Historical Relations of the US/DR, Curated by Oshun Lane, Prizm Art Fair, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Miami.; Projects Photo / Prints, Gallery 410 GooDBudY, Washington, DC; Construcciones – Obstrucciones 2005 – 10, Casa de Teatro Santo Domingo DR for the PhotoImagen Biennial, curated by Sara Hermann, and at the Center for the Digital Arts, Westchester Community College, NY, curated by Lise Prown; Boundaries, Curated by Margaret Moulton, The Hastings Village Arts Commission Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY.; Obstrucciones, Gallery 101, Georgetown University, Washington DC and Amos
Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Group exhibitions include Pasado y Presente: commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Young Lords, Curated by Yasmin Ramirez and Libertad Guerra, at the
Nathan Cummings Foundation and Loisaida cultural center in NY. What is Here is Open: Selections from the Treasures in the Trash Collection, Curated by Alicia Grullón and Nelson Molin at Hunter East Harlem Gallery, NY.; Uptown triennial, curated by Deborah Cullen and Souleo, CCNY art gallery, and El Museo del Barrio, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, NYC.; My Home Is Not Your Backyard, curated by Oshun Layne, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Resilience: Reclaiming History and the Dominican Diaspora, co-curated by Moses Ros-Suarez and Jonathan Goldman, IDB Cultural Center, Washington DC; Tyranny’s Tear: Mending a Dominican Trauma, co-curated by Linda Cunningham and Moses Ros-Suarez, Bronx Art Space Gallery, Bronx, NY; Crossing Boarders at Arts Westchester Gallery, White Plains, NY, curated by Kathleen Reckling; Superreal at El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, curated by
Rocio Aranda-Alvarado; El Panal/The Hive, Trienal Poli-Grafica de San Juan Puerto Rico, curated by Deborah Cullen; 6th international Printmaking biennial of Douro, Portugal, curated by Nuno Canela; and Directions: DC Contemporary Latino Art, Frida Kahlo Gallery, Cultural Institute of Mexico, Washington, DC, curated by Laura Roulet. Coronado’s work is in many collections including The Smithsonian American Art Museum,; The Archives of American Art; Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, MA.; The Rutgers
