Glendalys Medina (Puerto Rico; USA, b. 1979)

Glendalys Medina is a conceptual interdisciplinary visual artist who was born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx. Medina received an MFA from Hunter College and has presented artwork international 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, and The Studio Museum in Harlem among others. Medina was a recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (2020), a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellowship (2019), the Rome Prize in Visual Arts (2013), a NYFA Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Art (2012), and the Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace residency (2010), among others. Medina is currently a professor at SVA’s  MFA Fine Arts & Art Practice programs and lives and works in New York.