Honors include: New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, NY Artist Corps, Clinton Global Initiative Award Artist, 21 Leader for the 21st Century, Art in Embassies Program, US Department of State, Outstanding Woman of New York, Official Artist of the Latin Grammy, Groundbreaking Latina in the Arts and Outstanding Latina of the Year. Her work has been exhibited in fifty individual and numerous group shows, and is in private and public collections around the world, including The Library of Congress, The Smithsonian Institution, The New York Public Library, The Latin Recording Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Ellis Island Foundation, The Richmond Museum and The National Museum of Mexican Art. While I work to keep my connections with communities in all of the places I’ve worked and studied, I now live in New York, where I hope to find further opportunities to collaborate locally while deepening my art practice and advocacy.”Īndrea Arroyo is an award-wining artist working in drawing, painting, site-specific installation and public art. I recently finished my masters degree in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, which culminated in two separate exhibitions at Weinberg/Newton Gallery and another in conjunction with the 16th Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy. Since then I have performed in queer theatrical dances at the New York Library of Performing Arts as well as Judson Memorial Church, and regularly volunteering for organizations advocating queer art and activism. This gave rise to my first projects in photobook making and zine printing, which I first exhibited at the Brooklyn Zine Festival. After moving to New York in 2013 from Kansas, my home state, I became deeply involved in my art practice, while also enmeshing myself in New York’s vibrant queer community. I work primarily in photography, but have exhibited video work, as well as paintings and drawings, at galleries in the United States and internationally. Jean Sonderand am an artist, academic, and advocate working to bring light to issues of social justice and sustainability. This exhibition is generously supported by City Artists Corps Grant made to the curator, Jean Sonderand. Welcome Back is a reflection of how our sensibilities have changed and adapted to this ‘new normal’, and an invitation to embrace these experiences as they guide the trajectory of our recovery, in New York and beyond. Scarcity, uncertainty, and boredom drove us nearly mad, but the same forces inspired many to re-envision our lives, our communities, and our aspirations. Meanwhile, our obsession with sanitation led others to re-investigate the meaning of touch and contact, especially when physical closeness could spell a death sentence for those we cherished. Our bedrooms and offices became safe havens in which entire lives were carried out, while a view out of a window became a portal to an unfamiliar world of vacant streets. With the world cut off, the familiar shape of our homes was radically transformed. PPE, consisting of masks, gloves, and medical ephemera, littered our lives and our streets, accumulating physically as well as symbolically.

Some ticked away the time reading the daily updates in the news, with headlines and crosswords marking the uncertain trajectory of an unfolding, global crisis.

Welcome Back is a celebration of our resiliency as a city and culture, and an invitation for New Yorkers to consider how we will grow and adapt as we recover over the years to come.Įach artist in this exhibition had a unique response to the pandemic, but certain themes jump out as we look at the collection as a whole. Curated by Jean Sonderand for Maggi Peyton Gallery, and hosted by the Manhattan Borough President’s Office, the exhibition is an opportunity for artists and residents to come together and consider the variety of public and private experiences we have faced over the last two years. Welcome Back is a group exhibition featuring over thirty artists’ responses to the unprecedented COVID-19 Pandemic.

Hosted by the Manhattan Borough President’s Office and President Gale Brewer

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