"Borinquen Gallo (born 1975) is an Italian-Puerto Rican artist currently based in

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Biography and career

When Borinquen Gallo was 13 she moved with her family from native

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to New York City to volunteer as

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; they settled down in

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. Throughout her teens, she started studying arts. She earned a BFA from

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and an MFA from

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. Gallo is an Adjunct Associate Professor at

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and works as an artist. After an initial phase during which she trained as a painter, she turned to plastic artworks. Her installations are mainly focused on questioning the relationship with the environment and, according to the artist, their objective is to sensitize people about the need for an harmonious coexistence and respect for nature. Her works are mostly realized with such

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s, caution tapes and debris. In 2016, Borinquen Gallo was selected along with Paul Jonas Ramirez by ''Percent for Art'', a division of New York City's Department of Culture, for the commission of a public artwork for the upcoming 40th Precinct Station House in the Bronx. The building, to be built by Bjarke Ingles Group, is set to be completed in 2021.

Selected art fairs

* Scope Art Show Miami 2015 *

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, 2014 & 2015 * Governors Island Art Fair, 2016 * Volta, PlanB, 2019

Selected group exhibitions

* The Summer Art Festival 2014, Waterfall Mansion, New York, NY * UPROOT,

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, 2017

Selected solo exhibitions

* "Be(e) Sanctuary" Sunroom Project Space, Glyndor Gallery of Wave Hill, Bronx, New York 2017 * “Like a Jungle Orchid for a Lovestruck Bee”, Burning in Water gallery (currently Malin gallery), New York 2017

Selected museums exhibitions

* National Academy Museum and School, New York City (2014) * Bronx Calling: The third AIM Biennial,

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(2015) * National Academy Museum and School, New York City (2015) * “Creative Mischief 2016”, National Academy Museum and School, New York City * “Creative Mischief 2017”, The National Academy of Design * “Art, Artist & You”,

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, New York City (2019) * “Inside art”, Children's Museum of Manhattan, New York City (2020)

Awards

* 2009, Doris Liebowitz Art Educator Award * 2010, Marion Netter Fellowship * 2015, Sol Shaviro Award

References

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