Yanira Collado (b. 1975, Brooklyn) is a Miami-based artist whose installations and assemblages reconfigure objects that speak metaphorically of time. As a child she moved between Brooklyn, the Dominican Republic and Miami, where her mother worked to become a tailor. Her practice pairs reclaimed literary texts and textiles with construction materials such as wood, concrete, masonry brick, iron and drywall, materials whose geographic histories and economies carry personal and public memory. In her words, the work "attempts to assemble a visual language that reconciles the process in which the history of this information is recorded, stored, and retrieved." Her residencies include Bridge Red Studios, Project Row Houses, Oolite Arts, and she received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in 2018. Her work has been shown at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, El Museo del Barrio, MOCA North Miami and the Frost Art Museum.
Yanira Collado. Photo by Edra Soto
