Individual Exhibitions 

2025 Axis Mundi II, painting exhibition, Museo de Las Américas, San Juan Puerto Rico.

2021 Axis Mundi, painting exhibition, October Gallery, London.

2021 The Imagined Word, drawing exhibition. Rollins Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida.

2020 The Imagined Word, drawing exhibition. Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, Nueva York.

2020 La palabra imaginada, drawing exhibition. Museo de Las Américas, San Juan Puerto Rico.

2018 Santurce, un libro mural, Exhibition and urban interventions, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico. Santurce, Puerto Rico.

2015 Flora, un encuentro con las acuarelas de Agustín Stahl. San Juan Bautista Art Gallery, San Juan City Hall, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2013 Samsa, digital photography, Aljibe art space, Carmen de la Victoria, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.

2012 Intersecciones, paintings, Bayamón Museum of Art, Puerto Rico.

2011 Intersections, paintings, Puerto Rican Workshop, Filadelfia, Pensilvania, EUA.

2011 En concreto, gráfica urbana (In Concrete, Urban Graphics), portfolios and 6 documentaries. Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajistas de Puerto Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico. 

2009-2010 Samsa, digital photography. Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico. Santurce, Puerto Rico.

2007 Figuraciones sobre plástico (Representations in Plastic), exhibition of drawings. Galería 356, San Juan Puerto Rico, (shared hall with María Antonia Ordoñez).

2007 En concreto, gráfica urbana en Buenos Aires (In Concrete, Urban Graphics in Buenos Aires), Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires Argentina. Resident Artist, urban interventions and exhibitions.

2007 Performance Autorretrato según Paret, carta a un Presidente (Self-Portrait According to Paret, Letter to a President). Plaza de la Convalecencia, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

2007 En concreto, gráfica urbana en Vieques (In Concrete, Urban Graphics in Vieques), presentation of portfolio of digital graphics.  Fuerte del Conde Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico.

2006 En concreto, gráfica urbana en Vieques (In Concrete, Urban Graphics in Vieques), presentation of portfolio of digital graphics. Raúl Juliá Theater, Puerto Rico Museum of Art, Santurce, Puerto Rico.

 2006 En concreto (gráfica urbana en Mayagüez) (In Concrete, Urban Graphics in Mayagüez), Parque de los próceres, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Urban interventions, showing of documentary, conference. 

2006 Performance En concreto (gráfica urbana en el Ponce Art Museum), (In Concrete, Urban Graphics in the Ponce Museum of Art), sidewalk, Ponce Museum of Art. Project Círculo del Arte, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

2005 Installation and Performance  Natividad (Nativity), Galería Sin Título, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

2005 Performance En concreto (gráfica urbana en Vieques), (In Concrete, Urban Graphics in Vieques), land formerly belonging to the Navy,  Vieques, Puerto Rico. 

2005 Exhibition En concreto (gráfica urbana), (In Concrete, Urban Graphics), Museo Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico. 

2005 Exhibition En Concreto (gráfica urbana), (In Concrete, Urban Graphics), Galería Botello, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. 

2004 Exhibition En Concreto (gráfica urbana) (In Concrete, Urban Graphics), Gallery of Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (Sacred Heart University), Santurce, Puerto Rico.  

2003 Exhibition of paintings, Poliedro (Polyhedron), Puerto Rico Museum of Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.  

2001 Exhibition of paintings Crónicas del Asombro (Chronicles of Wonder), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

2000 Installation Visitas al Velorio, Museo de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1999 Exhibition of painting, Elite Fine Arts Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States

1997-1998 Exhibition of paintings Paisaje Secreto (Secret Landscape), Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico. 

1997 Exhibition of paintings, Elite Fine Arts Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States.

1996 Installation Visitas al Velorio, Ponce Museum of History, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

1993 Exhibition of paintings, El Jardín del Poeta (The Poet’s Garden), Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1992 Exhibition of drawings, Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, Edificio Centro Europa, Santurce, Puerto Rico.

1991 Installation Visitas al Velorio, Museum of History, Anthropology and Art, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

1990 Exhibition of paintings and drawings, Gallery Renaissance III, New Jersey, United States.

1989 Exhibition of drawings Casa Fleming, 15to. Festival del Café (15th Coffee Festival), Yauco,  Puerto Rico.

1989 Exhibition of drawings, Library of the Colegio Universitario de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico.

1988 Exhibition of African-American drawings, Centro Universitario, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

1988 Exhibition of drawings, Librería Hermes, Condado, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1987 Exhibition of drawings, Un camino hacia la magia (One Step Toward Magic), Art League, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1986 Exhibition of paintings, El tarot del universo (Universal Tarot), Café Teatro El Aquisitio, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

1985 Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Lithography, Edificio del Laboratorio de Pantomima, San Ángel, Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico D.F.

1983 Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Lithography, Galería Guatibirí, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

1982 Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Lithography, Galería Guatibirí, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

1979 Exhibition of drawings, Francisco Oller Gallery, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

 

 

Collective Exhibitions

2025 The sense of Beauty, Ponce Art Museum (traveling exhibition) Meadows Museum, Dallas; Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;

Oklahoma City Museum of Art; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford and Cincinnati Art Museum.

2024 24 años de donaciones al Museo 2000-2024, Museum of Art, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

2023 Del ojo con que se mira, Casa Cortés, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2023 El arte como re-existencia: lo afropuertorriqueño, Museum of Art, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

2023 Vestiduras de la piel, Desnudos de la colección Cortés. Museo y Centro de Estudios Humanísticos Universidad Ana G. Méndez, Recinto de Gurabo.

2022 Novenario, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico. Santurce, Puerto Rico.

2022 Muestra Legado, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2022 El poder expresivo: una mirada a la Colección McConnell Valdés, Puerto Rico Museum of Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.  

2021 1st International Digital Print Art Exhibition, Art Museum of Changsha Normal University, China.

2021 La ciudad en el tiempo: cinco siglos de representaciones artísticas de San Juan, San Juan History Museum, San Juan Puerto Rico.

2019 The Place as Methaphor, Rollins Museum, Orlando Florida.

2019 Esculturas Sonoras, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2019 Tribute to Lolita Lebrón, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2018 Puerto Rico: Defying Darkness, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2018 El Caribe en Puerto Rico, Caribbean University, Art Museum, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

2018 Portal, October Gallery, London, England.

2018 Muestra Nacional de Arte, Arsenal de la Marina, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2018 Línea dura, Dr. Pío López Martínez Museum of Art, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, Puerto Rico.

2017 Arte en concreto, lo concreto en el arte, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico. Santurce, Puerto Rico.

2017 Catharsis,  Museum of the Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2017 La réplica original, Galería del Complejo Cultural BUAP, Puebla, México.

2017 99 +1, la centena, Sacred Heart University Art Gallery,  Santurce, Puerto Rico.

2016 The poem is the question, Escuté House, Carolina, Puerto Rico

2016 El viaje de la impronta, Galería del Complejo Cultural BUAP, Puebla, México.

2015 Lorenzo Homar, tributo gráfico puertorriqueño, Sala de exposiciones José Antonio Torres Martinó Universidad de Puerto Rico, Galería Espacio Abierto, La Habana Cuba.

2015 Epocalípticos, Art Gallery, San Juan Art League, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2014 Lente y pincel, Artífice Art Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2014 Trans/figura, Casa Cortés, San Juan , Puerto Rico.

2014 Artefacto, Sacred Heart University Art Gallery,  Santurce, Puerto Rico.

2013-2014 Paraíso y palabras: un diálogo entre el arte y la literatura en Puerto Rico, Ponce Art Museum, Ponce Puerto Rico.

2013 Muestra Nacional de Arte (National Art Exhibit), Arsenal de la Marina (Old Navy Arsenal), Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture), San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

2013 CCC: Caribes, Inaugural Exhibition Casa Cortés, San Juan , Puerto Rico.

2012 Sixth International Graphic Biennial of Douro, Alijó and Porto, Portugal

2012 Art in Golf, FIST Art Foundation, Dorado Beach Resort Ritz Carlton. Dorado Puerto Rico.

2012 Caribbean Crossroads of the World, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA

2012 Third Poli graphic Triennial of San Juan, In Concrete, Urban Graphics, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan Puerto Rico

2012 Afrolatinos, Caguas Museum of Art, Caguas Puerto Rico.

2012  Olympics Brushstrokes, Ponce Art Museum, Ponce Puerto Rico.

2011 Self- Portraits Project,  Centro Raymond Lasnier de Trois Rivières, Quebec, Canadá.

2011 Puerto Rican Graphics, Corrala de Santiago Art Gallery, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.

2011 Belgrade Encounters, Graphic Exhibition; Center of Graphics  and Visual Investigations Akademia, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. 

2011 Campeche vivo, 200 años después. (Campeche Alive, 200 years after) Puerto Rico Museum of Art, Santurce, Puerto Rico.

2011 Entre líneas, Frade y el dibujo contemporáneo, (Between lines, Frade and the Contemporary drawing) Dr. Pío López Martínez Museum of Art, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, Puerto Rico.

2010 Relevos y  Careos,  Puerto Rico Museum of  Contemporary Art, Santurce, Puerto Rico

2010  Lost Paradise, The Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts (CMCArts), Frederiksted, Saint Croix US Virgins Islands.

2010 Encuentros: espacio, tiempo y vida. (Encounters: Time and Life) Reopening of the Permanent Exhibition, Ponce Art Museum, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

2010 Fifth International Graphic Biennial of Douro, Alijó and Porto, Portugal

2009-2010 Muestra Nacional de Arte (National Art Exhibit), Arsenal de la Marina (Navy Arsenal), Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture), San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

2009 Bocetos encontrados. Exibición en homenaje a Augusto Marín (Conflicting Sketches. An Exhibition in Homage to Augusto Marín). Sala Lexus, Ave. Kennedy, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2009 Exhibition “Meet Your Printmaker,” Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington D.C. United States.  

2009 Los Renegados (The Renegades), Museum of the Americas, Ballajá, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2009 Dorado Art Week, Fist Art Foundation. Dorado Beach East, Dorado, Puerto Rico.

2009 Décima Bienal de La Habana (Tenth Biennial of La Habana), La Habana, Cuba

2008 La Huella del Grabado II, [Episodios &Itinerarios II]  (Influence of the Engraving II, [Episodes & ItinerariesII]) Galería del Centro Cultural,  Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador), Estampería Quiteña, Quito, Ecuador.

2008 Seeing Peace, the Billboard Project  University of San Francisco, CA, in collaboration with the United Nations’ Invitation to 10 artists from 10 countries around the world. 

2008 Objetivos Móviles (Mobile Objectives), Proyecto Ace Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2007 Afrocaribe, espiritualidad, arte y resistencia, (Afrocaribbean, Spirituality, Art, and Resistance) Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico.

2007  27th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, International Center for the Graphic Arts. Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2007 Colección de Arte Cortés (Cortés Art Collection), Caguas Art Museum. Caguas, Puerto Rico.

2007  “America’s Paradise” and “Isla Del Encanto”(Enchanted Island),  Contemporary Art from the American Caribbean. School of the Museum of Fine Arts,  Boston, Massachussets, USA 

2007 PULPO, antología de 51 pintores y escritores por Papo Colo (PULPO, an anthology of 51 painters and writers by Papo Colo). Galería Nacional del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (National Gallery of the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture), San Juan Puerto Rico.

2007 Installation in the collective and multimedia proposal, Cenizas quedan (Ashes Remain). Antonio Martorell’s burnt house, Cayey, Puerto Rico

2007 Circa, Art Fair, Puerto Rico Convention Center. Galería 356.

2007 Exhibition Óptika 07, Chardón Art Gallery, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus.

2007 Restos, estudios arteológicos (Remains, Artology Studies). Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2007 Exhibition and auction of paintings. Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the  University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico.

2006 Exhibition and auction of paintings, Puerto Rico Museum of Art, Santurce Puerto Rico.

2006 Autocontemplación (Contemplation of the Self), Exhibition of paintings. Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the  University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico.

2006 Objetos de Gravamen y Causa: Interpretaciones Contemporáneas sobre el tema del consumo (Objects of Encumbrance and Cause: Contemporary Interpretations on Consumerism). Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2006 National Art Exhibit, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2006 Exhibition of drawings, Emergencias, convergencias y divergencias (Emergencies, Convergences, and Differences), Galería 356, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2006 Exhibition of drawings Seres (Beings), Galería 356, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2006 Circa, Art Fair, Puerto Rico Convention Center. Galería 356.

2006 Figuraciones (Imagination), Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2004 Primera Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan (First San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial), Exhibition Inscritos y Proscritos y Saqueos (Engravings, Exiles, and Plunder), Museum of the Americas and Casa del Libro, San Juan.

2004  Exhibition of paintings “Latinamerican Art Today” in Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, United States.

2003 Exhibition Installation Visitas al Velorio (an homage to Francisco Oller), acquired by the Puerto Rico Museum of Art as part of  its permanent collection. Santurce, Puerto Rico.

 2002 Entre Amigos (Among Friends), Galería Tamara, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2002 XXXIV Festival Internacional de la pintura (International Festival of Painting), Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France.

2001 Tercera Bienal de arte contemporáneo de Florencia (Third Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence), Florence, Italy. 

2001 Creo en Vieques (I Believe in Vieques), Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2001 Creo en Vieques (I Believe in Vieques), Museo Conde de Mirasol, Isabel Segunda, Vieques, Puerto Rico.

2001 Creo en Vieques (I Believe in Vieques), Performance and civil disobedience, on lands belonging to the Navy in Vieques, Vieques, Puerto Rico.

2000 Puerto Rico en París, Salle des Pas Perdus, UNESCO Site, Paris, France.

1999 “Summer Group Show”, Elite Fine Arts Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States.

1999 “Latin American Spectrum”, Elite Fine Arts Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States.

1998 “Summer Group Show”, Elite Fine Arts Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States.

1998 “Latin Amercan Spectrum”, Elite Fine Arts Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States.

1998 100 Años después...(One Hundred Years Later…), Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1998 Cien en la Sien (10 artistas) Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1997 “Latin Amercan Spectrum”, Elite Fine Arts Gallery, Florida, United States.

1996 Tercera Bienal de Pintura del Caribe y Centro América (Third Biennial of Caribbean and Central American Painting), Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

1996 Presencia Indígena en el Arte Puertorriqueño (Indiginous Presence in Puerto Rican Art), Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture) , San Juan, Puerto Rico

1994 Primera muestra de arte 1994 (First Exhibit of Art 1994), Puerto Rico Olympic Committee, Chase Manhattan Bank, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

1994 Muestra de arte puertorriqueño 1993 (Exhibit of Puerto Rican Art 1993), Quinto Centenario (Fifth Centennial), Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture), San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

1993 Preferencias de artistas (Artists’ Preferences), Chase Manhattan Bank, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. 

1992 Encuentro: Once Galerías (Encounters: Eleven Galleries), Banco de Desarrollo Económico de Puerto Rico (Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico), Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

1992 Exhibition Arte puertorriqueño de hoy (Contemporary Puerto Rican Art), Galería Arawak, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

1992 Exhibition La tercera raíz (The Third Root), Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1991 Exhibition Naturaleza (Nature), Galería Normandy, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1990 Exhibition Cinco en la Coabey (Five in Coabey), Galería Coabey, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1989 Exhibition Presencia Africana en el Arte del Caribe (The African Presence in Caribbean Art), Museo de Arte e Historia (Museum of Art and History), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1989 Exhibition Una muestra de arte universal (An Exhibit of Universal Art), Casa del Libro, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1988 VI Bienal Iberoamericana de Arte Domecq, Palacio de Bellas Artes, México DF. Mexico.

1987 First Prize in the Drawing Category, Certamen de la Revista Sin Nombre (Artists competition sponsored by Revista Sin Nombre), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1987 Exhibition of paintings Taller Delfín del Cielo, Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1984 Exhibition of Lithography, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México Df, Puebla y Oaxaca, Mexico.

1984 International Engraving Exhibition: Inter – Grafik, Berlin, East Germany.

1983 Exhibition El dibujo puertorriqueño contemporáneo (The Contemporary Puerto Rican Drawing), Galería Caimán, Nueva York; Inti Gallery, Washington D.C., United States, Altos de Chavón, Dominican Republic.

1981 First Prize in the Painting Category , Certamen de arte, Revista Sin Nombre (Artists competition sponsored by Revista Sin Nombre), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1980 Honorary Mention in the Painting Category, Certamen de Navidad del Ateneo Puertorriqueño (Christmas Exhibit at the Ateneo Puertorriqueño), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1980 Exhibition El paisaje en la pintura puertorriqueña (The Landscape in Puerto Rican Painting), Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

1980 Exhibition of graphic art carried out in the Taller Panamericano del Grabado, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1979 Honorary Mention in the Painting Category, Certamen de Artes Plásticas del  Royal Bank of Canada (Fine arts competition sponsored by the Royal Bank of Canada), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1979 Tercera muestra nacional de pintura y escultura (Third national exhibit of painting and sculpture), Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1979 First Prize in the Drawing Category, Certamen de Artes Plásticas, Oficina de Asuntos Culturales (Competition of Fine Arts sponsored by the Office of Cultural Affairs), University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

1978 Honorary Mention in the Drawing Category, Certamen de Artes Plásticas Universitario (University Competition of Fine Arts), University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

1977 Honorary Mention in the Drawing Category, Certamen de Artes Plásticas (Competition of Fine Arts) sponsored by Tiendas Gem U.N.E.S.C.O., Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. 

 

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Performances and Installations

 

2017 Maelo y las heliconias,  urban intervention, House of Ismael Rivera, Santurce Puerto Rico.

2015  Eye, urban intervention, Muñoz Rivera Ave., Hato Rey, Puerto Rico

2008-2009 Performance, show of lights, Monumento al Fracaso (Monument to Failure), abandoned petrochemical plant, Peñuelas, Puerto Rico

2007 En concreto, gráfica urbana en Buenos Aires (In Concrete, Urban Graphics in Buenos Aires), Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Urban interventions and exhibitions. 

2007 Installation in the Collective and Multimedia Proposal, Cenizas quedan (Ashes Remain). Antonio Martorell’s burnt house, Cayey, Puerto Rico

2007 Performance Autorretrato según Paret, carta a un Presidente (Self-portrait According to Parés, Letter to a President . Plaza de la Convalecencia, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

2006 Performance En Concreto (gráfica urbana en Mayagüez) (In Concrete, Urban Graphics in Mayagüez), Parque de los próceres, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

2006 Performance En Concreto (gráfica urbana en el Museo de Arte de Ponce) (In Concrete, Urban Graphics at the Ponce Museum of Art), sidewalk, Ponce Museum of Art. Proyecto Círculo del Arte, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

2005 Installation and performance  Natividad (Nativity), Galería Sin Título, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

2005 Performance En Concreto (gráfica urbana en Vieques) (In Concrete, Urban Graphics in Vieques) Land formerly belonging to the Navy, Vieques, Puerto Rico. 

2003 Urban art and pasquinade  "La guerra es un buen negocio"(War is Good Business) Colectivo el Alfil, San Juan, Río Piedras, Salinas, Bayamón, Humacao.

2002-03 Execution of scenic paintings and art consultant for the documentary  "Julia toda en mi" by Ivonne Belén.

2001 Performance Creo en Vieques (I Believe in Vieques), Federal Courtroom, Colectivo Artistas por la Paz (Artists for Peace Collective), Hato Rey, Puerto Rico

2000 Performance Creo en Vieques (I Believe in Vieques) on land restricted by the United States Navy in Vieques. Colectivo Artistas por la Paz (Artists for Peace Collective), Vieques, Puerto Rico

1998 Arte Urbano, “pasquinada” (Pasquinade), Colectivo El Alfil, San Juan, Río Piedras and Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

1995 Urban Art – Mural con poesía, Homenaje a la lluvia (Mural with Poetry, an Homage to Rain), Colectivo El Alfil, Poetry by Jan Martínez. Paseo de Diego, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

1994 Urban Art – Graffiti El ventrílocuo (Graffiti, the Ventriloquist), Colectivo El Alfil, Poetry by Jan Martínez.

1993 Installation Unión Permanente, Muestra de Arte Puertorriqueño (Permanent Union, an Exhibit of Puerto Rican Art), Quinto Centenario(Fifth Centennial), Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture), San Juan, Puerto Rico

1992 Urban Art – El mural del Callejón (Mural in the Alley), Colectivo El Alfil, Poetry by Jan Martínez, Callejón del Pilar, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

1992 Installation Dioses electrodomésticos (Electrodomestic Gods), Espectáculo Rompeforma Teatro del Patio del Instituto de Cultura, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1991 Installation Visitas al velorio, (a special homage to  Francisco Oller), Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the  University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico.

1991 “Ritual de arte” Solsticio (Art Ritual, Solstice), Parque Ceremonial Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

1988 Urban Art – Graffiti Lo que sobran son paredes (Too Many Walls), Taller Delfín del Cielo, Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1987 Installation and ritual, Un cambio hacia la magia (A Change to Magic) Art League of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1987 Installation En defensa del bosque tropical El Yunque (In Defense of the Tropical Rainforest El Yunque), Taller Delfín del Cielo, El Yunque, Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

1985 Urban Art – Mural El espejo de Dios (Mural: God’s Mirror) Taller Delfín del Cielo. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain..

1983 Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Lithography, Galería Guatibirí, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

1983 Urban Art – Mural El polvo de la memoria (Mural: Memory’s Dust), Painting by Rafael Trelles, Poetry by Obed Betancourt, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

1983 Installation El otro velorio (suicidio colectivo) (The Other Wake, Collective Suicide), Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the  University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico.

1979 Exhibition of drawings, Galería Francisco Oller, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

 

 Scenery and Wardrobe Design

 

2013  Campechada 2013 Scenery and Wardrobe design for Goyita, homenaje a la mujer trabajadora puertorriqueña, directed and writed by Gradissa Fernández. San Juan Puerto Rico.

2012  Campechada 2012 Scenery and Wardrobe design for Los Cinco Pablos, directed and writed by Gradissa Fernández. San Juan Puerto Rico.

2012  Scenery and Wardrobe design for Instrucciones para abrazar el aire Teatro Malayerba, Ecuador.

2011  Campechada 2011 Scenery and Wardrobe design for Danza Pintura, directed and writed by Petra Bravo. 

1999 Scenery and wardrobe design for the piece Son de Andanza. Compañía de Andanza. Center for Performing Arts Luis A. Ferré, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1998 Scenery design, Troya 98, Street theater. Producciones Taller Delfín del Cielo. Guánica, Puerto Rico.

1994 Scenery and Wardrobe design for the ballet Tres tiempos de fuego (Three Counts of Fire) by Gradissa Fernández. Tercer encuentro de coreógrafos (Third Presentation of Choreographers), Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, Center for the Performing Arts Luis A. Ferré, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1994 Wardrobe design for the presentation of the  modern dance Ritual de Unión de Danza Contacto (Union Ritual of Contact Dance). Ballet de San Juan’s venue, Former Naval Base in Miramar, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1988 Scenery and wardrobe design for theater-dance piece  La gracia del tiempo (Time’s Grace), Taller Delfín del Cielo, teatro del Patio del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1985 Scenery and wardrobe design for the piece Nadando entre los arrecifes salados (Swimming Among the Salty Reefs)  La Iguana Marina Company, Teatro Venustiano Carranzo, México D.F., Mexico.

 

 Distinctions 

 

2009  Premio Innovación y Cambio en la Educación Superior, Curso Humanidades en Acción. Otorgado por el Centro para la Excelencia Académica (Innovation and Change in Higher Education Award, Humanities in Action. Awarded by the Center for Academic Excellence), University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

2008 Prize for Best Exhibition of 2007, Asociación de Críticos de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Art Critics Association). 

2005 Prize for Best Exhibition of 2004 in Contemporary Mediums, Asociación de Críticos de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Art Critics Association).. 

1998  Art Medal granted by the Asociación Puertorriqueña de Artistas Plásticos ( Puerto Rican Artists Association), affiliated with UNESCO.

1996  "Premio al Mérito, por la excelencia en su trayectoria artístico-cultural." (Prize for Artistic Excellence), Fondo Nacional para el Financiamiento del Quehacer Cultural de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rican National Fund for the Financing of Cultural Activities).

1992  Prize granted by the Asociación de Críticos de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Art Critics Association) a la Mejor Installation de 1991 ( for the Best Installation of 1991).

1986 First prize in the drawing category in the competition sponsored by Revista Sin Nombre, Puerto Rico.

1981  First prize in the painting category in the competition sponsored by Revista Sin Nombre, Puerto Rico.

  

Associations 

2019 Académico de número de la Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española.

1998 Founding member of the Puerto Rican Association of Artists, Chapter of the  A.I.A.P.U.N.E.S.C.O.

1984 Founding member of the fine arts literary group, El  Alfil (imagen y palabra) (El Alfil, image and word), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1986 Founding member of the fine arts theater group, Taller Delfín del Cielo, Canary Islands, Spain.

1985 Founding member of the theater group, La Iguana Marina, México, D.F., Mexico.

 

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Collections

• Library of the Congress, Washington D.C.

• Rollins Museum, Orlando Florida, United States.

• Puerto Rico Art Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

• Ponce Art Museum, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

• Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico.

• Ramapo College Museum, New Jersey, United States.

• Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

• Cooperativa de Seguros Múltiples, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

• Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• Casa de las Américas, Habana, Cuba.

• Akademia, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.

• Taller Nacional de Gráfica de México, Aguascalientes, México.

• Chocolate Cortés Foundation, San Juan Puerto Rico.

• Museo de Antropología y Arte de la Universidad de Puerto Rico

 

 

Books:

• Metamorfosis, La pintura de Rafael Trelles (Metamorphosis, Rafael Trelles’ Paintings). Introductory text: Carmen Ana Pont, Editorial Terranova, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2009.

• El pez en llamas, (poems and photographs), Editorial Gaviota, San Juan Puerto Rico, 2014.

• In Concrete: Urban Graphics by Rafael Trelles, L’Artban, Boca Ratón, Florida, 2025.

• Los ojos de Juan Pantaleón, (short Story with illustrations), Editora, Educación Emergente Inc. Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, 2022.

• Fabulaciones, (poems with illustrations), Editora, Educación Emergente Inc., Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, 2025.