Memory Review
A Solo Exhibition of Works by Sarabel Santos-Negrón
Ínsula: island, isolated house, place of little importance
Efluvio-Efluvia
Effluvium: Memory of Alluvial Deposits
Not a Landscape
Tax Heaven (detail, front view)
Tax Heaven (installation view)
Pesos de Puerto Rico: Valor y Cambio, social currency project (installation view) 2018 -2019
Tax Heaven (detail, side view)
Pesos de Puerto Rico: Valor y Cambio, social currency project (detail)
Opportunity Zone (installation view)
Opportunity Zone (side view)
Opportunity Zone (detail)
Ir y Retornar (Going and Return) 28 days of isolation
Ir y Retornar (Going and Return) 71 days of isolation
Evergreen
My art practice is informed by the experience and memory of the Puerto Rican and the Caribbean landscape. Understanding landscape as a visual element that defines a place and its culture in a specific historical context, I create site specific installations, drawings, sound art and sculptures to depict the identity of the place and its value. I explore the Puerto Rican landscape and its social and political-economical aspects through field studies, expeditions and research. The work is created with found resources such as organic materials, high consumption industrial supplies, paper, photographs, sound, and mixed media, among others. This practice frame my daily experiences as part of the social construction of the contemporary landscape.
Sarabel Santos-Negrón
Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 1984
Sarabel Santos-Negrón is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and museum professional. Her work is informed by the experience and memory of the natural and social landscape of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
She earned an MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College or Art, Baltimore; an MAE in Museum Studies from Caribbean University, Puerto Rico; a BFA in Painting and Art History from the University of Puerto Rico; and Art History studies from Fundación Ortega y Gasset in Toledo, Spain.
Santos-Negrón has exhibited both nationally and internationally with recent shows at Chico Art Center (California), Large Arts Studios (Seattle), El Museo del Barrio (New York) and currently at the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art (San Juan). She has been featured as visiting lecturer at Princeton University, University of Virginia and Columbia University. Santos-Negrón has participated in residencies and research programs including Creativity in Place (North Carolina), Palmer Project (Bayamón), St. Mary’s Artist House (Maryland), the Herbarium of the University of Puerto Rico (San Juan), and a self-conducted residency and ongoing research project in El Paseo del Río Bayamón (Puerto Rico). She has received several awards including the BORIMIX 2019 (New York) for the social currency project Valor y Cambio, Studio Fellowship (Puerto Rico) and Merit Scholarship from Maryland Institute College of Art.
She is currently a fine art professor, independent curator and director of the Museo de Arte de Bayamón in Puerto Rico.