Nayda Collazo-Llorens American, b. 1968

Nayda Collazo-Llorens, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a visual artist engaged in an interdisciplinary practice incorporating multiple mediums and strategies. She earned an MFA degree from New York University and a BFA degree from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Beta-Local / El Serrucho, among others, and is a former Visiting Fellow at the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership.

Her work has been exhibited at El Museo del Barrio in New York City, The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami, Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan, and Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City, among other national and international institutions.

Her work is featured in the books Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, published by Duke University Press; A to Z of Caribbean Art, published by Robert & Christopher in Trinidad and Tobago; and The Dark Would: Language Art Anthology, published by Apple Pie in the UK. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art News, Art Net, Art Nexus, Arte al Día International, BOMB, and Newcity, among others.