Nitzayra Leonor

Nitzayra Leonor is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Her practice creates, reproduces, imagines and honors images rooted in her lived and shared experiences as an afro-caribbean woman. Working across photography, printmaking and ceramics, Leonor creates objects, portraits and visual experiences that engage with memory, interseccionality, identity and contradictions.

She is an associate artist in Taller Malaquita (@tallermalaquita) and a co-founder of Parceleras Afrocaribeñas por la Transformación Barrial Inc. (PATBA). Her work is held in public collections in Puerto Rico including el Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras and el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico in San Mateo de Cangrejos. Leonor has been invited to participate in exhibitions in Puerto Rico, St. Croix, Santiago de Cuba, United States and Spain. Since 2024, Nitzayra Leonor has been a professor in the Visual Arts Program at la Universidad de Puerto Rico in Mayagüez.