Credits
Estética del Desorden VIII (2025) El colmo de lo obvio (1996) #1 (El colmo de lo obvio) (1996)
Acrylic, pastel, and oil on protective canvas; mixed media on canvas; mixed media on cotton
Awilda Sterling-Duprey
Artist 1947, Puerto Rico, lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Experimental, independent, and multidisciplinary artist living and working in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her work explores identity, gender, diaspora, language, and migration, challenging conventional notions of cultural, national, and gender boundaries. Sterling-Duprey interweaves the marginalities of self-representation and resistance, confronting the silencing and invisibility of Afro-Caribbean women. Drawing from a multidisciplinary practice and Yoruba-Caribbean traditions, she transgresses the limits between drawing, painting, and performance through a decolonial approach that questions and redefines Puerto Rican artistic traditions.
She is a founding member of Pisotón, Puerto Rico’s first experimental dance collective. Her recent group exhibitions include Puerto Rico Negrx, curated by Marina Reyes Franco and María Elena Ortíz (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan); no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, curated by Marcela Guerrero (Whitney Museum of American Art); Quiet as It’s Kept (The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art); Cimarronas: Black and Afro-descendant Women Artists (Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico); and Untitled II (Kilómetro 0.2, San Juan).