Zuania Muñiz-Meléndez
Short Bio
Muñiz-Meléndez, Zuania (San Juan, P.R., 1985). An artist who creates her work through the photography medium. Earned her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Photography at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. Her conceptual work emphasises in how we relate to nature and the importance of this relationship. She has participated in collective exhibitions in Puerto Rico, in Italy and in USA. In 2018 she was part of a Puerto Rican collective exhibiting during Miami Art Week and were published on well recognized magazines. In 2016 her work received honorable mention by the International Photography Awards in the Portrait and Fine Art categories. Her art is part of private collections in Puerto Rico, in Germany, and in USA.
Education
2008
B.A. Photography, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2020
Certificate- Photography, Workshop Experience, Madrid, Spain.
Languages
Spanish, English, and French.
Mentor
2018 - Adlin Ríos Rigau. - Retired art professor from Universidad Sagrado Corazón, funder of Galería de Arte Sagrado Corazón and director for more than ten years, funder and director of Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico for 4 years, artist, and author of several art books.
Selected Exhibitions
2023
“SalaFAR Biennal”, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Upcoming)
“Pasando factura”, i AM Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico
“Exposición Colectiva” , i AM Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2022
“Photoimagen 2022: Femenino +”, Museo Fernando Peña Defilló, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana.
“Art Night”, Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, Dorado, Puerto Rico
2021
“Resolución 2020”, Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico
“Resolución 2020”, Museo de Arte Caribbean University, Bayamón, Puerto Rico
“Cohete Toledo” Festival de arte de Toledo, Toledo, Spain
2019
“Island Beauty”, Artist Advisory Board, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri.
“NEXOS: edición EE”, Artist Advisory Board, Espacio Emergente, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
“Determinado II“, Artist Advisory Board, SalaFAR, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
“Camaradas: Arte en Solidaridad”, Juan Carlos Amador, Instituto de Subcultura, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2018
“Correspondencias”, Vanessa Hernández, El Lobi, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
“Plural”, Ludwig Media, Sala de arte Plaza del Caribe, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
“Summer Group Show”, Arnaldo Cueto , A Cueto Gallery, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
“Presencia” , Abdías Mendez , Canvas Gallery, Miami, Florida.
“The Essential”, Millepiani Exhibition Space, Rome, Italy.
“Colectiva de Navidad 2018”, Arnaldo Cueto, A Cueto Gallery, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
2017
“Art Through the Lens”, Eliot Dudik, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky.
“Photography”, Taylor Lyon, Graphite Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2016
“Determinado” Solo Show, Taller de Fotoperiodismo, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
“Color Burst: Contemporary Photography”, Todd Johnson, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
Auctions
• 2017, “Cena por el MAC”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Paseo Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 2019, “Subasta silente a beneficio de la Sala Noemí Ruíz.”, Penthouse Banco Popular, Hato rey, Puerto Rico.
Awards
• 2016, International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention in the Fine Art and Portrait Categories.
Press
• The Washington Post "The art of our pandemic lives", 2020, p.C1
• Forbes "Fine art and sports worlds unite virtually with Arcis Golf, TOROSIETE Museum", 2020, https://www.forbes.com/
• gestalten "Vademecum Vigorous Flowers. A Creative Pool project by Zuania Muñiz-Meléndez (Puerto Rico)", 2020, https://news.gestalten.com.
•”All the arts Saint Louis”, 2019, p. 1,3, 23, 28
• “ARTDISTRICTS FLORIDA”, 2018, p.11, p.38-41
• “Latin American Art”, 2018, p. 64-65.
• Redacción de Flash & Cultura, “La semana de ferias de arte de la ciudad floridiana contará con la participación de más de una decena de artistas puertorriqueños” El Nuevo Día, 2018, p. 58.
• Jorge Rodriguez, “Presencia artística en Florida”, El Vocero, 2018, p.26.
• “Trece artistas de Puerto Rico desembarcan en Miami con una muestra de arte”, 2018, dominicanoenelexterior.com
• “Presencia, de Puerto Rico en Miami”, 2018, dirticity.blogspot.com
• Lillian E. Agosto, “Colectivo artístico Presencia en ruta a Miami”, 2018, buenavibra.com
• Ignacio Olasagasti, “Hasta las piedras hablan”, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico.
•“ARTPULSE”, 2018, p.15
• Judith Felicié, “Voz y Cultura”, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2018.
• “ISO + Rainbow”, 2017, oursphotomag.com
• “Average #16”, UK, 2017
• “Wotisart? 8”, UK, 2017
• Rosario Romero, “Determinado”, Visión Doble, 2016, visiondoble.net
• Javier Martínez, “Lengua, flora y fotografía en Determinado”, Autogiro, 2016, autogiro.cronicaurbana.com
• Eileen Rivera Esquilín, “Zuania Muñiz y sus imágenes escritas con luz”, Esto es el Agua, 2016, estoeselagua.com
• Arte Fusión, “20 diciembre 2016”, http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/98184751
• José Arroyo, “El lenguaje de las flores” , prpop.org
Collections
• Private Collections: San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dorado, Puerto Rico, Frankfurt, Germany, Portland, Oregon, St. Louis, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, New York, New York.
• Institution: Fundación Imágen 83, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana