
Joiri Minaya: The Art of Disrupting the Colonial Gaze
Joiri Minaya has been exhibited, acquired, supported by fellowships – but mainstream art publications still ignore her.
Joiri Minaya has been exhibited, acquired, supported by fellowships – but mainstream art publications still ignore her.
Through textiles, Elsa María Meléndez creates raw, unapologetic takedowns of Puerto Rico’s colonial status. She should be a household name.
If the art world won’t invite Latina artists in, we’ll keep showing up anyway. And as Yali Romagoza has already proven, we’ll do it in style.
Latina visual artists are overlooked, undervalued, and underpaid. The mainstream press ignores them, but not us at Latina Media Co.