Quisqueya Henríquez Explained

Quisqueya Henríquez
Other Names:Quisqueya Henriquez
Birth Place:Havana, Cuba
Death Place:Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Education:Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo,
Instituto Superior de Arte
Movement:Conceptual art

Quisqueya Henríquez (1966 – 30 March 2024) was a Cuban-born Dominican multidisciplinary contemporary artist.[1] [2] She worked in the mediums of sculpture, photography, sound art, installation art, video art, and collage.[3] [4] Henríquez's work has been included in many international exhibitions and biennials.[5]

Biography

Quisqueya Henríquez was born in 1966 in Havana, Cuba, and lived in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from the time when she was a child. She studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (Autonomous University of Santo Domingo; UASD); and studied from 1987 to 1992 at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana.

Henríquez emerged as an avant-garde in the late-1980s. Henríquez's work addresses issues such as conventions of race, ethnicity, and gender encountered in Caribbean and Latin cultures. Her notable performance work includes "De él Helado de agua de mar Caribe" (2002), where ice cream was made with Caribbean sea water (a fundamental ingredient to the work), whey, rum, coconut oil, blue color, and stabilizers.[6]

In 2007, Bronx Museum of the Arts held the mid-career survey exhibition of her work titled, "Quisqueya Henríquez: The World Outside: A Survey Exhibition 1991–2007",[7] which travelled in 2008 to the Miami Art Museum (now Pérez Art Museum Miami).[8] [9] The survey commented on Latin American modernist art and its relation to European traditional art historical movements and featured sculpture, installations, collage, and video.

Her work can be found in museum and public collections including El Museo del Barrio in New York City, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami in Miami, Florida;[10] the Pérez Art Museum Miami in Miami, Florida; Ninart Centro de Cultura in Mexico City, Mexico; and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Rhode Island.[11]

Henríquez died on 30 March 2024, at the age of 58 of stomach cancer.[12] [13] [14]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Quiñones . Alfonso . 27 June 2008 . Quisqueya Henríquez, entre los 25 artistas más influyentes del mundo . 6 September 2023 . . es.
  2. Book: Behar, Ruth . Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba . 6 November 2015 . University of Michigan Press . 978-0-472-03663-9 . 421 . en.
  3. News: Johnson . Ken . 26 October 2007 . Minding the Gap Between Rarefied and Local Art Culture . en-US . . 6 September 2023 . 0362-4331.
  4. Book: Roberts . Caroline . Cut & Paste: 21st-Century Collage . Brereton . Richard . 5 September 2011 . Orion . 978-1-78067-501-5 . 86 . en.
  5. Web site: 31 August 2007 . Quisqueya Henriquez: The World Outside at The Bronx Museum of the Arts . 6 September 2023 . Artdaily.cc . English.
  6. Web site: January 2021 . Quisqueya Henríquez: Helado de agua de mar Caribe . https://web.archive.org/web/20230906010853/https://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/es/events/quisqueya-henriquez-helado-de-agua-de-mar-caribe/ . 6 September 2023 . 6 September 2023 . C& América Latina . es.
  7. News: Genocchio . Benjamin . 28 October 2007 . Enthusiasm for Rubbish That Avoids Clichés . en-US . . 6 September 2023 . 0362-4331.
  8. Web site: 15 March 2008 . Miami Art Museum Presents Cuban-Dominican Artist Quisqueya Henriquez . 6 September 2023 . Artdaily.cc . English.
  9. Web site: Suarez De Jesus . Carlos . Hurst . Steph . Mills . Michael . 10 July 2008 . Art Capsules . 6 September 2023 . Miami New Times . en.
  10. Web site: 1997 . 1997-98 Henríquez, Quisqueya . 6 September 2023 . cintasfoundation.org.
  11. Web site: Helado hecho de agua de Mar Caribe (Ice Cream Made from Water from the [Caribbean] Sea) ]. 6 September 2023 . RISD Museum.
  12. Web site: 30 March 2024 . Murió la destacada artista Quisqueya Henríquez . 31 March 2024 . Listin Diario . Es.
  13. Web site: 31 March 2024 . El mundo del arte lamenta la pérdida de Quisqueya Henríquez . 31 March 2024 . Diario Libre . es.
  14. Web site: 31 March 2024 . Fallece la artista visual Quisqueya Henríquez; venía padeciendo un cáncer de estómago . 31 March 2024 . El Nuevo Diario (República Dominicana) . es.
  15. Web site: 2006 . Henriquez, Quisqueya. (b. Havana, Cuba, 1966; active Santo Domingo, Rep. Dominica, 2014) . https://wayback.archive-it.org/4472/20210227121941/http://216.197.120.164/artistbibliog.cfm?id=15729 . 27 February 2021 . African American Visual Artists Database (AAVAD).
  16. Book: Island Nations: New Art from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Diaspora . 2004 . RISD Museum.

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