Art Production / Filmography Videos & Short Films: Narrow Santo Domingo Fear (take #1 short seft-portrait) Awarded Fear (take #2 «Map»-Awarded Blood of mine Dirty Mind Naque-Awarded Sewing for Jesus (w/ Sheri Wood) Not Here, Not There-Awarded Dona Ramona’s Garden I got you Under my Skin Thinking of You
(Music Video DedosBand) | Awards & Recognitions -The MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA, 2008 Fellow-Featured on Foundation Annual -Art Direction Award - “Deditos” Promotion for Suiche Machete, DR, 2007 -The MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA, 2005 Fellow-MacDowell Moments Documentary & Colony Magazine -XVII Biennale of Visual Arts, Santo Domingo, DR, 2005 Grand Prize Winner -Altos de Chavon School of Design, La Romana, DR, 2004 (Fellow-Speaker-Art Teacher) -Ruth Vanderpool Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, NYC, USA, 2001 -Magna Cum Laude Graduate, Altos de Chavon School of Design, DR, 2001 -Honor Scholar, Altos de Chavon Foundation, La Romana, DR, 1999 |
Direction of Photography / Animation Media Advertising: • Bumper-Mercasid Foundation (2007-Cumbre) • Bumper-Brugal Awards Ceremony (2007-Cumbre) • “Deditos” Movie Theather Promotion for Presidente Beer (2007-Suiche Machete) • Progress Bank-The Happiest Father/Mother (2006-Suiche Machete) • Caipirina Brazilian Beer-Commercial (2006-Suiche Machete) • Frito Lay-Verizon TV Spots (2005-Bululu Films/Pages BBDO) • TV Spot-Brugal Community Prize (2005-Panamericana) • Bumper-Brugal Awards Ceremony (2005-Carmen Grullon Productions) • TV Commercials (Mostaza Films-T Mejia Ricart & McCann Erickson/Lam Labs) | Skills Concept Art Drawing, Painting, Illustration, Storyboarding, Video production & post-production, non-linear DV editing, Stop Motion, Photography (Conventional & Digital), Storyboarding, Puppeting, Character Rigging and Animation, Footage, Digitization, Rendering, Musicalization and Sound Edition, Multimedia Production, Graphics Creation and Design, Videography and Documenting Software: Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Flash MacIntosh XP Savy, Digital & HD Cameras |
Freelance Illustration Soul Vision Works, Inc. Art Work, Character Creation, Design and Illustration If Only I Could / Disabilities / What Makes Me Beautiful / My Very Breast Friend / Who’s That Crying / Missing You | Education -Bachelor of Fine Arts/New School University-Parsons School of Design/USA 2003 -Fine Arts and Illustration, AFA/Altos de Chavon School of Design/DR 2001 -Painting, AS/National School of Fine Arts/DR 1998 Other Studies: University of Santo Domingo, DR (3+years): Publicity and Media Major |
Exhibitions-Art Projects Stop & Go – Electric Works Gallery, CA USA, 2008 ‘Animas’ Concert and VideoArt Screening (w/El Batey), DR 2008 ‘Megalogrio’ Concert and VideoArt Screening (w/Malapaz), DR 2007 Meeting of Two Seas-Biennale of Valence, Spain 2007 XXIV Biennale of Visual Arts Museum of Modern Art, DR 2007 ‘The Route of the Performance’-Documentation-Asia Caribbean Pacific Festival, DR 2006 ‘Treasure Island’ (P. Diaz)- Documentation-Biennale of Havana, Cuba 2006 XXIII Biennale of Visual Arts Museum of Modern Art, DR 2005-Grand Prize Winner Senior Students Exhibition-Gallery-Parsons School of Design, USA 2003 Meet me in Brooklyn, USA 2002 Black History Month-Gallery-Parsons School of Design, USA 2002 ‘At My Place’ DR 2002 ‘Paul’s Dragonfly’ Spain Cultural Center 2002 Students Exhibition-Altos de Chavon Foundation, 1999 & 2001 Students Exhibition-National School of Fine Arts , DR 1996 & 97 20th Century Artists- Benetton Café, DR 1996 St Vincent du Paul Sacred Art, DR 1995 Maria Ugarte Young Painters, Hispanic Cultural Center, DR 1995 | Other Art Teaching: (Anatomic Drawing-Mercy Jaquez Institute of Fashion Design, DR 2007/Drawing & Illustration-Altos de Chavon School of Design, DR 2004, 2006, 2007/Other Institutional & Individual Art Instruction) Gallery & Curatorial Assistantship: Parsons exhibitions, NSU, NYC, USA. 2001-2004 Speeches & Dissertations • The MacDowell Colony-Animation Workshop 2008 • Film School UASD-Art Speech 2007 • Film School UASD-Art Speech 2007 • Museum of Modern Art-Art Workshop 2006 • Altos de Chavon Foundation-Art Speech 2005 |