artist statement :
My Andean Cosmovision anthropomorphizes my surroundings, leading me to approach topics related to sustainability, climate change and colonialism. With a lacanian eye, playing with unconventional use of language I explore the connections of cultural elements between communities and languages. my proposal seeks a syncretic, multicultural and safe future for everyone.
Bio
Niceli Portugal is a Peruvian artist and educator based in New York City. She is the education coordinator at Materials for the Arts. Portugal creates intergenerational and multilingual spaces for families to make art, and has worked with Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling and the Queens Museum; where she was the Lead Artist and Coordinator for Family Programs. Niceli is the Director of Escuelita en Casa, an initiative in response to the pandemic that provide free virtual tutoring and art classes to families in the United States and Latin America.
ART SHOWS
Group shows
•We Out Here, Until Death, Brooklyn, NY (May 2023)
• Creative Climate Awards for Human Impact Institute, The Tapei Center, New York, NY (April, 2023)
• Borderwalls, The Border Project Space, Brooklyn, NY (December 2022)
• You Are the Artist, Materials for the Arts Gallery, Long Island City, NY (November, 2022)
• Woman Makes Art 2022, The Art Gallery at the Cohen Library at City College of
New York, Harlem, NY (March, 2022)
•We Out Here, Until Death, Brooklyn, NY (May 2022)
•We Out Here, Until Death, Brooklyn, NY (May 2021)
• Bushwick Open Studios 2020, Maite, Brooklyn, NY (June 2020)
• Womxn’s Day Show, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (March 2020)
• Woman Makes Art 2020, The Art Gallery at the Cohen Library, City College of
New York, Harlem, NY (March, 2020)
• Woman Makes Art 2019, The Art Gallery at the Cohen Library, City College of
New York, Harlem, NY (March, 2019)
Community Projects/Exhibitions
• Walking Feelings, YM&YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood , New York, NY (May 2023)
• Walking Feelings, Love and Serve Without Borders, Athens, Greece (February, 2023)
• Catch Me If You Dream at One Vandebilt TD Bank , New York, NY (October 2022)
• Wild Food at Skytown Mall, Queens, NY (September 2022)
• Walking Feelings at Back to School Event Councilwoman Catalina Cruz Office, Queens, NY (September 2022)
• Nuestras Raíces: Escuelita en Casa Community Camp at Queens Museum, Queens, NY (August 2022)
•Mapeando, New New Yorkers at Queens Museum, Queens, NY (August 2022)
• Walking Feelings, Mothers Day Celebration Councilwoman Catalina Cruz Office, Queens, NY (May 2022)
• Walking Feelings, Autimami at Queens Museum, Queens, NY (July 2022)
• Walking Feelings Until Death, Brooklyn, NY (May 2022)
• Everyday Bread, Choachi, Colombia (March 2022)
• Walking Feelings at Ferralarada Rural School, Choachi, Colombia (March 2022)
• Escuelita en Casa Art Festivals at Rural Schools: Pedro Pescador, El Hato, Maza and Ferralarada. Choachi, Colombia (March 2022)
• La Luz No Se Va (Day of the Dead Memorial), Queens Museum, Queens, NY (October 2021)
• Walking Feelings, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY (September 2021)
Two-person Art shows
• Year Ayer & Mis Lenguas, Codelca, Arequipa, Peru (December 2021)
• Year Ayer, 68 Jay, Brooklyn, NY (May 2021)
