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Yanira Collado

Visual Artist

North Miami, Florida

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I am interested in the labor inherent in materials and the shapes taken during their transitions which conjure up transcendence and in many ways, what bell hooks refers to as ‘fragments becoming whole.’ This spirit of inquiry in the embedded narrative of materials has led me to an expansive focus on textiles and artifacts.

Yanira Collado is a multimedia artist working with site-specific installations that encompass painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and audio. Collado’s practice considers concepts that allude to the restoration, healing and reconciliation of histories. These perceptions are summoned through construction materials, reclaimed literary texts, wood, concrete, textiles, iron, and drywall. Materials with inherent geographic histories, processes and economies that imply varying degrees of ritual, cultural values, traditions, personalized and public memory. Art residencies and fellowships include the Mississippi Museum of Art Artists in Residence, Jackson Mississippi, 2023-2024, Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas, 2022 and the Joan Mitchell Residency, New Orleans 2023. In 2024 Collado placed best in show for the Orlando Museum of Art Florida survey, Florida Prize, and in 2022 she was awarded a grant from Foundation for Contemporary Arts to support her one-person exhibition Areito/Allusions of Sacred Geometry and Diaspora.

Group shows include, To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions, El Espacio (Jorge Perez Collection), Miami, FL, 2023. Post Hip-Hop? or return of the Boom Bap!, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, 2023. Estamos Bien — La Trienal 20/21, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, 2020-2021. penumbras: sacred geometries at Project Row-Houses, Houston, TX, 2019.

Solo exhibitions include Residual Elements/Meditaciones sobre lo Fragmentado at Centre Clark in Montreal, Canada 2025. Transformative Elements at the Baker Museum in Naples, FL, 2023- 2024. For those who transcend in the wind, MOCA Museum, Miami, FL. A Spellworking of Temporal Geometry at the Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, 2023.

Selected Works

"Areíto #5" is an intricate multi-media installation. The work is an assemblage of materials and colors of light purples, pinks, blues, and light turquoise. Shapes resembling diamonds repeat and create patterns. A blue transparent block sits on the floor in front of the wall piece resembling a brick, with a stone-like object inside it.

"Dwellings #7" is photographed in an open-air structure. The multi-media work in a rectangular frame sits in a window-like opening of this outdoor space. Three beams hold up the structure which shows signs of wear. Paint is fraying and fading from the building surfaces, brick is exposed, and grass is growing through the concrete ground.

"A spell working of geometry" is a large installation work within a gallery space. There are dark purple and teal panels. One of the large wood panels is at an angle in the gallery space and one of the building structural columns appears to pierce through the work. The other “L” shaped structure lays flat on the floor of the space.