Glendalys Medina's practice focuses on transcending the symbolic systems of language and image by investigating the role they play in forming identity. Medina is currently a professor at SVA’s MFA Fine Arts program and lives and works in New York.

Early life and education

Medina is an interdisciplinary artist and received an MFA and BFA from

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...

and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under to tutelage of Phyllida Barlow and Eva Rothschild.

Career

Medina's work has been presented at such notable venues a
Artpace
PAMM, where her work is featured in the permanent collection, Participant Inc., Performa 19, Artists Space, The Bronx Museum of Art,

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, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, Spain,

Smack Mellon Smack Mellon is a non-profit arts organization located at 92 Plymouth Street, in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Smack Mellon supports emerging, under-recognized mid-career, and women artists through a highly regarded exhibition program, competitive studio re ...

and

The Studio Museum in Harlem The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American art museum devoted to the work of artists of African descent. The museum's galleries are currently closed in preparation for a building project that will replace the current building, located at 144 W ...

among others. Medina was a recipient of
Pollock-Krasner
grant, Jerome Hill Foundation Fellowship (2019), a residency at Yaddo (2014, 2018), th
Rome Prize in Visual Arts
(2013), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Art (2012), and the

Bronx Museum of the Arts The Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), also called the Bronx Museum of Art or simply the Bronx Museum, is an American cultural institution located in Concourse, Bronx, New York. The museum focuses on contemporary and 20th-century works created by A ...

AIM residency (2010).

References

External links

Official site
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