Glendalys Medina


Glendalys Medina's practice focuses on transcending the symbolic systems of language and image by investigating the role they play in forming identity. Medina is currently a professor at SVA’s MFA Art Practice program and lives and works in New York.

Early life and education

Medina is an Afro- Caribbean interdisciplinary artist who was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx. Medina received an MFA and BFA from Hunter College and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under to tutelage of Phyllida Barlow and Eva Rothschild.

Career

Medina's work has been presented at such notable venues as PAMM, Participant Inc., Performa 19, Artists Space, The Bronx Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, Spain, Smack Mellon and The Studio Museum in Harlem among others. Medina was a recipient of a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellowship, an Ace Hotel New York City Artist Residency, a SIP fellowship at EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, a BACK IN FIVE MINUTES artist residency at El Museo Del Barrio, a residency at Yaddo, the , a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Art, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM residency .