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Quisqueya Henríquez (born 1966, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-Dominican contemporary artist. Her artistic production spans sculptures, installations, paintings, drawings, assemblages, photographs, videos, light and sound experiences. Her work investigates the cultural and psychological boundaries between the Caribbean and European modernist traditions around the world. She lives and works between Dominican Republic and Miami, Florida since the 1990s. Henríquez has exhibited in several art institutions in Latin America, United States and Europe.

Education
Quisqueya Henríquez was born in Cuba and raised in the Dominican Republic. She studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana, and and the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo. Since 1997 she has been living between the Dominican Republic and the United States. The artist’s first name is the Indigenous name given to Santo Domingo before the coming of the Spanish.

Career
In 2008, she presented a career survey exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. The show titled Quisqueya Henríquez: The World Outside A Survey Exhibition 1991–2007, commented on Latin American modernist art and its relation to European traditional art historical movements. The show, which was also presented at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, featured sculpture, installations, collage, and video. Artworks included in the show made references to the Bauhaus movement, European Modernism, and 20th century artists such as French and Swiss architects Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, and Pierre Jeanneret. In the occasion of the show, guest curator Amy Rosenblum Martin stated, “Through her work, she invokes the sights, sounds, tastes, and textures of the city—all the sensory experiences that make urban life chaotic and provocative. By playfully abstracting familiar forms, she challenges our relationship with the everyday. Her primary concern is making us aware of our perceptions; with allowing us to see ourselves seeing.”

In 2020, Henríquez work was presented at the Aldrastus Collection, Spain, in a solo presentation of two pieces B306 and Pesas caseras (Homemade weights), both created in 2006. The viewing was titled Quisqueya Henríquez: Spinning Clichés Into Fresh Paradigms.

In 2021, while in residence at the Residency Unlimited studios in New York, the artist continued to work on her ongoing series Ripped Paintings, which begun in 2019 and touches on denim as a garment and consumption item. Her work Helado de agua de mar Caribe (Caribbean Sea Water Ice Cream), from 2002, was presented in the online series of exhibitions History as Rumor, organized by the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires (MALBA) and she was a guest speaker in a conversation with Malba's chief curator, Gabriela Rangel, in 2021.

Her work is represented by the David Castillo Gallery, in Miami, and Galeria Ana Mas Project, Barcelona, Spain, where her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in past years.

Collections (selection)
Her work is included in the permanent collections of public and private institutions like the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Allen Memorial Museum of Arts (AMAM) Oberlin, Ohio; Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; RISD Museum of Art, Providence; Patricia Phelps Cisneros Collection, Venezuela and New York, and the De la Cruz Collection, Miami, among others.

Publications
Bronx Museum of the Arts. Quisqueya Henriquez: The World Outside, a Survey Exhibition 1991- 2007. Bronx, N.Y.: Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2007.