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Andrea Arroyo is an award-winning artist working in a wide range of media, including painting, artists' books, mixed media, digital art, public art, and site-specific installation.

Her work is exhibited and collected internationally; public collections include The Library of Congress, The National Museum of Mexican Art, The Richmond Museum, The Smithsonian Institute, and The New York Public Library. 

Honors include New York Women's Foundation Honoree, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, AEP Fellowship, Creatives Rebuild New York, NYC Artist Corps, Global Citizen Award Artist, Clinton Global Initiative, 21 Leader for the 21st Century, Outstanding Woman of New York, The United Nations R Lurie Award,. Woman of the Week, Women in the World Foundation, Groundbreaking Latina in the Arts, and Outstanding Latina of the Year.

She has received multiple grants from the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, the Puffin Foundation, the Harlem Arts Alliance, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Public art projects include permanent indoor and outdoor artwork for private, institutional, and corporate spaces.

Her artwork has been published extensively, including on the cover of The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The International Herald Tribune. It has been the subject of over two hundred features in the international media.

Ms. Arroyo is also a curator, a cultural advocate, and a sought-after speaker and lecturer. 

Faces & Façades

The Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum

Through March 23, 2025

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Faces & Façades features paintings that blend organic and non-organic forms and are inspired by the women and architecture of Northern Manhattan. The project is a love letter to the uptown community and the women who hold it together.

Press: 

PIX11 TV News: Washington Heights artist brings art exhibit to the Morris-Jumel Mansion

FanyBlog (Italy) Faces & Façades, Andrea Arroyo in mostra

New York Amsterdam News: Andrea Arroyo’s new exhibition ‘Faces & Façades’

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The Morris-Jumel Mansion is Manhattan’s oldest surviving residence (1765,) and one of the nation’s foremost historic house museums.

Faces & Façades is supported by the Artist Employment Program, Creatives Rebuild New York, UMEZ Arts Engagement, Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders, and the Puffin Foundation.

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“ImagiNATIONS: Art as Solidarity”

Public Art Exhibition, on view through November 30, 2024
Anibal Aviles Playground: 111 W 108th Street, New York City. 
FREE and Open to the public during regular Parks hours

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Presented by El Taller Latino Anericano’s Grady Alexis Gallery

“ImagiNATIONS: Art as Solidarity” an ongoing series of artworks created in response to issues that touch us every day, like immigration, civil and gender rights, displacement, gun violence, international conflicts, and the environmental crisis.

“The works reflect the universal values of love, justice, equality, and peace and aim to build bridges across borders, languages, and cultures and generate dialogue about issues relevant to the local and global levels.

I hope these images will inspire reflection and empower individuals and communities to create change by raising their voices in empathy, solidarity, and love”.

This project has taken many forms: the printed page, online, gallery, museum, and public art exhibitions, and the book “ImagiNATIONS: Art as Solidarity,” Gold Medal for Best Art Book at the International Latino Book Awards. Available here.

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The Muse Presents:

The Labyrinth, A Journey Within

An immersive art installation created by Andrea Arroyo on the main stage of the United Palace. The labyrinth is a pathway into the unknown, it symbolizes our life’s journey & all its unexpected twists & turns. Participants will be invited to write a message or question to carry into the labyrinth, then walk the labyrinth & allow the answer to be revealed.  The event will close with a group ritual & communal walk to help us remember that we are never journeying alone.  

Sunday, June 30, 2024, 4pm.

The United Palace, New York City

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I am honored to be recognized by The New York Women's Foundation at this year's Celebrating Women Breakfast!

I am thrilled to be in the company of amazing change-makers Cynthia Nixon, S. Mona Sinha, Toshi Reagon, Fondation CHANEL, and New York Liberty. Join me as we celebrate women everywhere who continue to advocate for change and create a world where women, girls, and gender-expansive people can thrive. Wednesday, May 8, NY Marriott Marquis.

INFO AND TICKETS     Facebook Event 

#CelebrateWomen #RadicalGenerosity

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“Goddesses at the Palace”

A site-specific installation transforming the Grand Foyer of the historic United Palace.

June 2024

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"Goddesses at the Palace" is inspired by real and imagined women, past, present and future. With this project, the artist celebrates the beauty, power and resilience of women, and continues to explore large-scale drawing in the three-dimensional realm, transforming traditional and non-traditional spaces to invite reflection about the role of art in society. Photo by Robbie Pope Bailey (Detail.) 

 

About the United Palace: "Built in 1930 as one of Loew’s “Wonder Theatres,” the United Palace was one of the region’s premier vaudeville and movie houses. Designed by noted architect Thomas Lamb (Cort Theatre, Ziegfeld Theatre) with interiors by decorative specialist Harold Rambusch (Waldorf Astoria, Radio City Music Hall), it was described by The NY Times as “Byzantine Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo Deco” and a “kitchen sink masterpiece.” 

"Goddesses at the Palace" is supported by the Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Program.

Additional support from Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, United Palace of Cultural Arts, and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance.

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MORRIS-JUMEL MANSION MUSEUM 

(April 14-June 12)

HISPANIC SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

(April 23,-July 31)

and THE UNITED PALACE (May 15-July 31)

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Organized by Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance

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BOOK "ImagiNATIONS: Art as Solidarity"

150 profusely illustrated pages, published by NowWhat Media.

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SIGNED/personalized: $30 including US shipping

PayPal (below,) and Zelle (preferred, email me.)

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UPCOMING PROGRAMS:

  • Saturday, June 4, 1-3pm. Meet the Artist-Community Open House. Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum (Indoors) RSVP Includes Book Signing.

  • June 18th  2-4pm: Spontaneous Minds: the Art of Improvisation, Collaborative performance, live music by Miguel Zenon, live painting by Andrea Arroyo. In collaboration with Columbia University’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. Hispanic Society Museum. Performance 2-3pm (Outdoors.) RSVP

  • June 30th, 6-8pm. Art as Solidarity - Uptown Art Stroll Closing. The United Palace.

  • Please stay tuned for updates and additional programs.

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Art as Solidarity is an ongoing series of artworks created in response to issues that touch us everyday, like immigration, civil and gender rights, displacement, gun violence, international conflicts and the environmental crisis. The works reflect universal values of love, justice, equality and peace, and aim to build bridges across borders, languages and cultures.

These images bear witness to daily injustices and political upheavals. While they document our current turbulent times, they also celebrate the beauty and resilience of the most vulnerable communities. These images inspire reflection, empower individuals, and build communities to create change, by raising their voices in empathy, in solidarity and in love.

Arroyo says “Art can change the world and beauty is revolutionary.”

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Selections from the "Solidarity" series have been recognized with various awards, including First Prize, United Nations Lurie Award; Political Satire Award Humor Biennial Cuba; and awards from Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, Hispanic Federation, Google the Miranda Family Fund., Puffin Foundation, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

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About Art as Solidarity:

“Andrea Arroyo responds to challenges faced by all our communities, locally and globally, with images that uplift, inspire, and empower. Her art is a call to social action, an invitation to hope, and a celebration of our shared humanity.”    -Guillaume Kientz, Director and CEO, Hispanic Society Museum & Library

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Top image: Art as Solidarity Exhibition at the Hispanic Society Museum, NYC 2022.

 

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CoVIDA - Homage to Victims of the Pandemic

 

Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum, Roger Morris Park, NYC.

 Please visit: CoVIDA.

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The public is invited to submit names for the living memorial throughout the run of the exhibition.

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SELECTED PRESS:

NBC: "Public Art Installation at NYC Park Pays Homage to Pandemic Victims"

CoVIDA-Untapped Cities/Best Public Art Exhibitions

CoVIDA-ArtFixDaily

CoVIDA-Telemundo 

CoVIDA-Impacto Latino

CoVIDA-The Nation-OppArt

CoVIDA-Viceversa

CoVIDA-USNewsChant

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RECENT INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

​​​​​“EmPOWER - Images for Social Justice”  â€‹NYC

Televisa International,: FanyBlog Italy, Viceversa Magazine.

Presented with support from UMEZ-LMCC and The Puffin Foundation.

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​​​​“Evidence of Movement”  Public Art: Site-specific, large-scale works, NYC

Presented by New York Restoration Project, with support from LMCC,

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RECENT AWARDS

Puffin Foundation Award; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Award, NYC; Arts Engagement Award/UMEZ, NYC; Political Satire Award, XXI International Biennial, Cuba.

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Ongoing Curatorial Projects:

"Unnatural Election: Artists Respond to the Impact of the election of Donald Trump"

curated by Andrea Arroyo, over 300 international artists.

"OppArt" The Nation Magazine. Co-curated by Andrea Arroyo.

CORONAVIRUS - COVID19 ILLUSTRATIONS
For more images visit the "Solidarity" page here. Published widely (The Nation, The Manhattan Times, FanyBlog, etc.)
Created with love, in solidarity with all people impacted by the pandemic around the world. STAY SAFE EVERYONE!

Covid Vaccine-Hope in a Vial
Have Covid Will Travel
OMGcron Omicron
Back to School
Vaccine Inequity
Christmas in the Time of Covid
Hope
Spring
School is Open
Take Care Big Apple
The World on Alert
500K Covid Deaths
Protecting New York
Prisoners of Covid
4th July
"Coronavirus-Love in the Time of Coronavirus"
"Coronavirus-Healthcare Heroes"
"Coronavirus-Protect Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence"
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Right: ​​"Me Too"

Left: "Real Men Don't Grope"

​Published in

The Manhattan Times, The Nation Magazine

among others.

​"Me Too" Awarded First Prize, United Nations

R Lurie Art Contest.

To inquire about interviews, exhibitions, commissions (painting, drawing, indoor/outdoor public art, illustration,) workshops or speaking engagements contact the artist.

To join my mailing list please send me a message.

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Andrea Arroyo: Selected Interviews and Talks.

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CNN Interview

Watch

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Spanish

October 2018.

 

Interview, photos/video

by Maite Hernandez Mateo

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