Joiri Minaya is a Dominican-United Statesian multidisciplinary artist whose recent works focus on destabilizing historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity.

Minaya attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales, Santo Domingo in 2009, Altos de Chavón School of Design in 2011, and received a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2013. She has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Guttenberg Arts; Smack Mellon; the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program; the NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists; ISCP; Art Omi; Vermont Studio Center; New Wave; Silver Art Projects; Light Work; and Fountainhead. She has received awards, fellowships and grants from the US LatinX Art Forum; NYSCA / NYF; Jerome Hill; Artadia; the BRIC’s Colene Brown Art Prize; Socrates Sculpture Park; the Joan Mitchell Foundation; and the Nancy Graves Foundation, among others. Minaya’s work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Princeton University Art Museum, NJ; MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; as well as the Centro León, Santiago and Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and the Fundación Ama Amoedo Collection in Uruguay.