Quisqueya Henríquez

Quisqueya Henríquez
Born	1966 (1966) Havana, Cuba
Died	30 March 2024 (aged 58) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Other names	Quisqueya Henriquez
Education	Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Instituto Superior de Arte
Movement	Conceptual art

Quisqueya Henríquez (1966 – 30 March 2024) was a Cuban-born Dominican multidisciplinary contemporary artist.[1][2] She worked in the mediums of sculpture, photography, sound art, installation art, video art, and collage.[1][3][4] Henríquez's work has been included in many international exhibitions and biennials.[5]

Biography

Quisqueya Henríquez was born in 1966 in Havana, Cuba, and lived in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from the time when she was a child.[1] She studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (Autonomous University of Santo Domingo; UASD); and studied from 1987 to 1992 at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana.[1]

Henríquez emerged as an avant-garde in the late-1980s.[5] Henríquez's work addresses issues such as conventions of race, ethnicity, and gender encountered in Caribbean and Latin cultures. Her notable performance work includes "De él Helado de agua de mar Caribe" (2002), where ice cream was made with Caribbean sea water (a fundamental ingredient to the work), whey, rum, coconut oil, blue color, and stabilizers.[6]

In 2007, Bronx Museum of the Arts held the mid-career survey exhibition of her work titled, "Quisqueya Henríquez: The World Outside: A Survey Exhibition 1991–2007",[3][7] which travelled in 2008 to the Miami Art Museum (now Pérez Art Museum Miami).[8][9] The survey commented on Latin American modernist art and its relation to European traditional art historical movements and featured sculpture, installations, collage, and video.[3]

Her work can be found in museum and public collections including El Museo del Barrio in New York City, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami in Miami, Florida;[10] the Pérez Art Museum Miami in Miami, Florida; Ninart Centro de Cultura in Mexico City, Mexico;[10] and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Rhode Island.[11]

Henríquez died on 30 March 2024, at the age of 58 of stomach cancer.[12][13][14]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• Artists Space, New York City, New York;[5]
• the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;[5]
• Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico;[5]
• The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland[5]
• "Quisqueya Henriquez: Intertextualidad" (2006), David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida[15]
• "Quisqueya Henríquez The World Outside: A Survey Exhibition 1991–2007" (2007–2008, traveling), Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City, New York,[7] and the Miami Art Museum (now Pérez Art Museum Miami)[8][9]

Group exhibitions

• "Miami: Human Nature", New Museum (1995–1996), New York City, New York;[5]
• "Defining the Nineties: Consensus-making in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles" (1996), Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, Florida;[5]
• INSITE 97 (1997), San Diego, California;[5]
• "No Lo Llames" performance at El Museo del Barrio, New York City, New York;[5]
• "Island Nations: New Art from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Diaspora" (2004), RISD Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island;[5][16]
• 23 Bienal Nacional (2005), Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic[5]
• "This Skin I’m In: Contemporary Dominican Art from the Permanent Collection" (2007), El Museo del Barrio, New York City, New York.[5]
• "Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art" (2007–2008), Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, New York; included Quisqueya Henríquez, Alexandre Arrechea, Ewan Atkinson, Nicole Awai, Mario Benjamin, Terry Boddie, Charles Campbell, Keisha Castello, Chris Cozier, José Cruz, Annalee Davis, Maxence Denis, Jean Ulrick Désert, Roberto Diago, Satch Hoyt, Deborah Jack, Hew Locke, Miguel Luciano, Tirzo Martha, Ibrahim Miranda, Melvin Moti, Santiago Rodríguez Olazábal, Steve Ouditt, Raquel Paiewonsky, Ebony Patterson, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Jorge Pineda, K. Khalfani Ra (also known as Makandal Dada), Veronica Ryan, Storm Saulter, Colectivo Shampoo, Arthur Simms and Peter Omer[15]
• "Beyond the Supersquare" (2014–2015), Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City, New York; included Quisqueya Henríquez, Alexandre Arrechea, Carlos Garaicoa, and Los Carpinteros[15]

References

1. Quiñones, Alfonso (27 June 2008). "Quisqueya Henríquez, entre los 25 artistas más influyentes del mundo". Diario Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2023.
2. Behar, Ruth (6 November 2015). Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba. University of Michigan Press. p. 421. ISBN 978-0-472-03663-9.
3. Johnson, Ken (26 October 2007). "Minding the Gap Between Rarefied and Local Art Culture". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
4. Roberts, Caroline; Brereton, Richard (5 September 2011). Cut & Paste: 21st-Century Collage. Orion. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-78067-501-5.
5. "Quisqueya Henriquez: The World Outside at The Bronx Museum of the Arts". Artdaily.cc. 31 August 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
6. "Quisqueya Henríquez: Helado de agua de mar Caribe". C& América Latina (in Spanish). January 2021. Archived from the original on 6 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
7. Genocchio, Benjamin (28 October 2007). "Enthusiasm for Rubbish That Avoids Clichés". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
8. "Miami Art Museum Presents Cuban-Dominican Artist Quisqueya Henriquez". Artdaily.cc. 15 March 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
9. Suarez De Jesus, Carlos; Hurst, Steph; Mills, Michael (10 July 2008). "Art Capsules". Miami New Times. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
10. "1997-98 Henríquez, Quisqueya". cintasfoundation.org. 1997. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
11. "Helado hecho de agua de Mar Caribe (Ice Cream Made from Water from the [Caribbean] Sea)". RISD Museum. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
12. "Murió la destacada artista Quisqueya Henríquez". Listin Diario (in Spanish). 30 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
13. "El mundo del arte lamenta la pérdida de Quisqueya Henríquez". Diario Libre (in Spanish). 31 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
14. "Fallece la artista visual Quisqueya Henríquez; venía padeciendo un cáncer de estómago". El Nuevo Diario (República Dominicana) (in Spanish). 31 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
15. "Henriquez, Quisqueya. (b. Havana, Cuba, 1966; active Santo Domingo, Rep. Dominica, 2014)". African American Visual Artists Database (AAVAD). 2006. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021.
16. Island Nations: New Art from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Diaspora. RISD Museum. 2004.