Glendalys Medina

BANK STATEMENT (LEVELS) (2012) & BUTTONS (2012)

While in Rome in 2012, Medina made over twenty sheets of cotton paper. As a response to the political climate in the U.S., she later added gold spray paint and marker to five of those sheets. By embedding her own signature into the cotton mixture, the works allude to bank statements, or perhaps to the creation of a new kind of currency, highlighting the history of cotton in the U.S. and the financial discrepancy of those who have historically harvested it and those who yield it.

Glendalys Medina is a conceptual interdisciplinary visual artist and received an MFA from Hunter College. Medina has presented artwork at such notable venues as PAMM, Participant Inc., Performa 19, Artists Space, The Bronx Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, Spain, and The Studio Museum in Harlem among others. Medina was a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2020), a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellowship (2019), an Ace Hotel New York City Artist Residency (2017), a SIP fellowship at EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (2016), a BACK IN FIVE MINUTES artist residency at El Museo Del Barrio (2015), a residency at Yaddo (2014, 2018), the Rome Prize in Visual Arts (2013), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Art (2012), and the Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace residency (2010). Medina is currently a professor at SVA’s MFA Art Practice program and lives and works in New York.