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De una lagrima soy hijo/ y soy hijo del sudor/ de un Puerto Rico de ensue-
no/…yo soy puertorriqueno,/ sin na’, pero sin quebranto./ Y asi le grito al
villano:/ yo seria boricano /aunque naciera en la luna.
-Juan Antonio Corretjer
I am a proud son of Puerto Rican immigrants. My mixed media paintings, works on paper and videos are visually loaded. They speak to our history, identity, culture, survival, and resistance to U.S. imperialism. I call my art RicanStructions; a term coined by Salsa and Jazz percussionist Ray Barretto as a title for his 1977 album recording. My RicanStructions embodies my Nuyorican and Puerto Rican identity. They express the cries, anguish, rebellion, struggle for self-determination, and the love, joy and celebration our life affirming spirit.
Born to working-class Puerto Rican immigrants in Brooklyn, NY, Juan Sánchez first gained recognition for his large multi-layered mixed media collage paintings addressing issues of Puerto Rican identity and the struggle against U.S. colonialism. Sánchez exhibited and lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His art is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, El Museo del Barrio, El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba, the Smithsonian’s Museum of American Art, The National Museum of African American History & Culture and The National Portrait Gallery and the Mead Museum of Art.
Among several awards and acknowledgments, Sánchez was awarded the 2022 Artist Award from the Artist Legacy Foundation, the US Latinx Art Forum (USLAF) Latinx Artist Fellowship, the 2020 CUAA Augustus Saint-Gaudens Achievement in the Visual Art Award and was inducted into The Cooper Union Hall of Fame.
Juan Sánchez is Professor of Art at Hunter College, The City University of New York.
De una lagrima soy hijo/ y soy hijo del sudor/ de un Puerto Rico de ensue-
no/…yo soy puertorriqueno,/ sin na’, pero sin quebranto./ Y asi le grito al
villano:/ yo seria boricano /aunque naciera en la luna.
-Juan Antonio Corretjer
I am a proud son of Puerto Rican immigrants. My mixed media paintings, works on paper and videos are visually loaded. They speak to our history, identity, culture, survival, and resistance to U.S. imperialism. I call my art RicanStructions; a term coined by Salsa and Jazz percussionist Ray Barretto as a title for his 1977 album recording. My RicanStructions embodies my Nuyorican and Puerto Rican identity. They express the cries, anguish, rebellion, struggle for self-determination, and the love, joy and celebration our life affirming spirit.
Born to working-class Puerto Rican immigrants in Brooklyn, NY, Juan Sánchez first gained recognition for his large multi-layered mixed media collage paintings addressing issues of Puerto Rican identity and the struggle against U.S. colonialism. Sánchez exhibited and lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His art is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, El Museo del Barrio, El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba, the Smithsonian’s Museum of American Art, The National Museum of African American History & Culture and The National Portrait Gallery and the Mead Museum of Art.
Among several awards and acknowledgments, Sánchez was awarded the 2022 Artist Award from the Artist Legacy Foundation, the US Latinx Art Forum (USLAF) Latinx Artist Fellowship, the 2020 CUAA Augustus Saint-Gaudens Achievement in the Visual Art Award and was inducted into The Cooper Union Hall of Fame.
Juan Sánchez is Professor of Art at Hunter College, The City University of New York.
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