Patricia Encarnación is an Afro-Dominican interdisciplinary artist and scholar. Her work critically engages with colonial legacies across various socio-cultural layers within Afro-diasporic communities, focusing on the Caribbean, Latin America, and it’s diaspora. Through explorations of material culture, collective memory, and cultural identity, Encarnación challenges tropes of Caribbean and tropical aesthetics by recontextualizing everyday objects, landscapes, and aesthetics from her upbringing.
artwork has been showcased at diverse platforms such as Documenta 15, the Tribeca Festival Artist Program Award, NADA Art Fair, Afro Syncretic at NYU, and I am New Afro Latinx at MOLAA, CA. Encarnación has been twice selected for The Centro Leon Jiménez Biennial in Santiago, DR, earning the city of Cádiz (Spain) cultural immersion prize and a special invitation to a fellowship sponsored by the French consulate in Martinique as part of the Tropiques Atrium Caribbean art program. They have also received recognition from the NALAC Fund for the Arts.
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