EDUCATION

-Hunter College, NYC, MFA
-The Cooper Union, NYC, BFA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

-Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, "FLAGments & FRACKments," 2024
-Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, "I'M MIGRATION," 2024
-Human Impacts Institute, NYC, "Creative Climate Awards," 2023
-Bronx Artspace, NYC, "What on Earth Have You Done," 2023
-Bethany Arts Community, Ossining, NY, "Impact 2022: Art That Bears Witness," 2022
-NYBG, NYC, "Around the Table," 2022
-Lehman College Art Gallery, NYC, "Eco-Urgency: Now OR NEVER," 2021-2022
-Wave Hill, NYC, "Eco-Urgency: NOW or Never," 2021
-Former San Nicolò Convent of Venice Lido, Venice, Italy, "Venice Masked," 2021
-BronxArtSpace, NYC, "Giving Light," 2021
-Hunter East Harlem Gallery, NYC, "Sense Us 2020," 2020-2021
-Eastern Connecticut State University Gallery, "Racism: The Other American Pandemic," 2020
-Pelham Art Center, NYC, "IN/FLUX," 2019
-Longwood Arts Gallery, NYC, "Foreign/Familiar," 2019
-Latchkey Gallery, NYC, 100 Works, 2018 - 2019
-Areté, NYC, "The Art of Protest," 2018
-Smack Mellon, NYC, "Uproot," 2017
-Andrew Freedman Home, NYC, "State Property," 2017
-Longwood Arts Gallery, NYC, "Bronx:Africa," 2016
-School of Visual Arts, CP Projects Space, NYC, "Crushing Debt," 2016
-Bronx Artspace, NYC, "Speak Out," 2016
-Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, "The Art of Revolution," 2015
-Scope Art Fair, NYC, "The Time is Now," 2015
-Smack Mellon, NYC, "Respond," 2015
-Art in Odd Places, NYC, "Free," 2014
-Emerson Gallery Berlin, Berlin, Germany, "Ecuador trifft Berlin," 2014
-Bronx Museum, NYC, Armory Arts Week 2014
-Select Art Fair, Rush Arts Gallery, Art Basel, Miami, FL, 2013
-Westwood Gallery, NYC, "NYC 25," (with Curate NYC), 2013
-Bronx River Art Center, NYC, "MAPnificent," 2013
-ABC No Rio, NYC, "I'll Show You Mine...," 2013
-Proyector, Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Spain, France, Portugal, Mexico, 2013
-NURTUREart, NYC, "Cashing Out," 2013
-Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, "Dimensions Variable: Multiracial Identity," 2013
-No Longer Empty, NYC, "How Much Do I Owe You?," 2012-13
-University of Maryland UMUC Gallery, College Park, MD, "Vista," 2012
-The World Bank, Washington D.C., "About Change," 2012
-No Longer Empty, NYC, "This Side of Paradise," 2012
-Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C., "Ñew York," 2012
-Region 0, Latino Film Festival, NYC, then traveled to Spain, Mexico, Cuba, & Argentina, 2011-12
-Bronx Museum, NYC, "The First AIM Biennial," 2011
-Taller Boricua, NYC, "See What I Mean," 2010 - 2011
-Third Streaming, NYC, "Bite: Street-Inspired Art & Fashion," 2010
-Exit Art, NYC, "Global/National," 2010
-41 Cooper Square Gallery, The Cooper Union, NYC, "Rites of Passage," 2010
-Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, "Borderlines," 2009 - 2010
-Longwood Art Gallery, NYC, "Anthem," 2010
-Exit Underground, NYC, "America for Sale," 2009
-The Ice Box, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA, "Diálogo 365," 2009
-Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, "MFA Thesis Exhibition" 2008 - 2009
-Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, "Digital Art Expo," Los Angeles, CA, 2008
-Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, NYC, "MAs Select MFAs", 2007
-The Lab, NYC, "Macromix," audio-visual performances, various dates between May - September, 2007
-Lehman College Art Gallery, NYC, “Bronx Bound,” 2006
-Artists Space, NYC, group show, "Abaca Public Art Projects," 2001

SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

-Lincoln Center & BK Public Library, "Anthem to US," 2024
-NY Botanical Garden, NYC, "Around the Table," 2022
-Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Washington D.C., "Silk Road Remixed," Washington Performing Arts, 2015
-Performa 2009 at El Museo del Barrio, NYC, "Viva Futurism," Latino Futurist Manifesto Happening, 2009
-The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 2008, Folklife Festival "Space Art" commission, with NASA
-MTA Arts & Design, NYC, 2007, permanent faceted-glass installation for 225th street station
-NASA, Washington D.C., Permanent Collection, 2000

SELECTED AWARDS

-Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency Fellowship, Sweet Briar, VA, 2022
-Academy for Teachers, NYC, "Don Quixote Fellowship," Drawing for German (Berlin, Germany), 2022
-NY Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC, City Artist Corps Grant, 2021
-A Blade of Grass Foundation, NYC, Fellow, 2013
-apexart, NYC, International Fellow, 2010
-AIM Fellow, Bronx Museum, NYC, 2010
-Bronx Council on the Arts, BRIO Award & Grant, NYC, 2009
-Atlantic Center for the Arts, Artist’s Residency & Fellowship, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 2001
-Longwood Arts Project, NYC, Studio Residency, 1999
-L’École Nationale Supérieure Des Arts Décoratifs, Full Scholarship, Paris, France, 1994-95

SELECTED PRESS & BOOKS

-NBC News, "Anthem to Us: Creation of a Contemporary Anthem," 11/04/24
-National Audubon Society, "For the Birds by Nicky Enright," 2024
-Riverdale Press, "New mural highlights local birds threatened by climate change," I. Gonzalez, 07/12/24
-The Nation, "You Know the Drill," 07/03/23
-NBC News, Using art to honor gun violence victims, 06/05/23
-Hunts Point Express, "Giant Climate Murals at BronxArtSpace," S. Nagpaul, 02/21/23
-Berliner Woche (1), Germany, "Aus Ecuador via New York," 09/09/22
-Berliner Woche (2), Germany, "Kunst im Lietzenseepark," 09/09/22
-The Riverdale Press, "It's 'Now or Never' for Lehman Gallery Art Show," Ethan Stark-Miller, 02/14/22
-The Riverdale Press, "Enright commands ocean of talent," Ethan Stark-Miller, 08/08/21
-CNN Español, "¡Que llegue a los oídos de los políticos!" 09/24/21
-Local Art Mix, "Giving Light: An Art Antidote to Gun Violence," March 16, 2021
-CoinDesk, "Money Reimagined; Money is a Meme," Michael Casey & Sheila Warren, 9/25/20
-25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way, Geraldine Woods, Norton & Company Book, 2020
-Hartford Courant, "Racism: The Other American Pandemic," Susan Dunne, 07/31/2020
-Ante Mag, In/Flux Review (cover image), September 29, 2019
-The Nation, "OppArt - In Drugs We Trust" June 7, 2019
-Contested City, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, University Of Iowa Press Book, 2019
-Magnetic City, Justin Davidson, Spiegel & Grau - Penguin Random House Book, 2017
-The apexart Fellowship: An Experiment in Vertical Cultural Integration, apexart book, 2017
-ASAP Journal, Review of Art in Odd Places 2016: RACE, Corey Dzenko, March 2, 2017
-Unfinished Memories / 30 Years of Exit Art, Steidl Books, 2016
-MarketWatch, "When Art Imitates Life," J. Berman, 2/5/16
-NY Daily News, "Longwood Arts Project celebrates Africa in Bronx," J. Mccallister, 1/24/16
-The Riverdale Press, "Show explores borough's ties to Africa," W. Speros, 1/28/16
-Hyperallergic, "A Virtual Quilt of Remembrance...," L. Mallonee, 4/27/15
-The New York Times, "Raging at Racism, From Streets to Galleries," Holland Cotter, 1/22/15
-The Wall Street Journal (article), "A New York Artist Who Makes Money - Literally," M. Casey, 11/11/14
-The Wall Street Journal (video), "What Is Money? An Artist’s Make and Take," 11/11/14
-New York's Underground Art Museum, MTA Arts & Design, Monacelli Press Book, 2014
-Artist Files, A Blade of Grass Book, 2013
-Whitehot Magazine, "No Longer Empty at The Andrew Freedman Home," Rebecca Rothberg, May 2012
-Art Practical, "From the Bronx: This Side of Paradise," Christine Wong Yap, Spring 2012
-The Riverdale Press, "The case of the missing Globos," Kate Pastor, 5/30/12
-Hyperallergic, "The Bronx's Favorite Abandoned Mansion Becomes a Home for Art," Howard Hurst, 5/3/12
-arts.observer, "Key Component: Pianos are Making a Play in the Visual Art World," 4/26/12
-arts.observer, "This Side of Paradise," 4/10/12
-Huffington Post, "The Cultural Landscape Architects: Yona Backer," Julie Chae, 3/29/12
-New York Times, "Uptown Palazzo Project," Randy Kennedy, 3/19/12
-Washingtonian Magazine, Art Review: “Ñew York” at the Art Museum of the Americas, Beth Shook, 3/9/12
-Performa 09: Back to Futurism, by Roselee Goldberg, Performa Book, 2011
-HyperAllergic, "Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial," Allison Meier7/18/11
-Forbes Magazine, “Selling An America No One Wants To Buy,” by Sarah Wolff, 10/23/09
-NASA/ART: 50 Years of Exploration, Abrams Art Book, 2008
-Along The Way: MTA Arts for Transit, Sandra Bloodworth, Monacelli Press Book, 2006
-New York Post, "Hot Picks: The Art of Protest," 12/01/04
-The New York Times, "Artist Visual Sampling," The City, 12/19/99
-The New York Times, "Way Up in the Bronx A Hardy Spirit Blooms," Holland Cotter, 5/7/99

SELECTED TEACHING

-Riverdale Country School, NYC, Projects in Contemporary Art, Life Drawing, Studio Art, 2010–Present
-MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), NYC, The Art of Digital Culture, 2009
-Horace Mann School, NYC, Studio Art, initiated Multimedia Program, 2001–03, & ‘04–08
-Hunter College, NYC, Advanced Drawing, T.A. with Prof. Andrea Blum, 2007
-Fieldston School, NYC, Studio Art, Printmaking, Life Drawing, Multimedia, 2003–2004
-The Cooper Union, NYC, Drawing, 2000
-Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, NYC, Mural Painting, 1997–1998
-The Cooper Union Saturday Program, NYC, Portfolio-Preparation, 1994–1996
-The School for the Physical City (New Visions School), NYC, Studio Art, 1994–1996

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