ABOUT
Bio
Pierre Obando was born in Belize City, Belize, and grew up in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Miami, FL, and Jackson, MS. He received his MFA from Hunter College, New York City, and a BFA at New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL. His work in painting and drawing evolve from an engagement with precedents and his diasporic identity. Solo exhibitions include ‘Some Kind…’ at Starr Suites, Brooklyn, NY; ‘Like New’ at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY; ‘Nowhere’ at Rush Arts, New York, NY; and ‘Noise’ at Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY. Group exhibitions have included the ‘Queens International Biennial’, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, ‘Caribe Now’ at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY, ‘#BemisPainters, 1982-2015’, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE, ‘Browsing Chamber’ at Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands and ‘Revival: Contemporary Pattern and Decoration’, El Museo at Hostos, Bronx, NY. He has attended Artist-in-Residence programs at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, and Alice Yard in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and was a DVCAI Fellow for an International Cultural Exchange to Belize in 2019. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Two Coats of Paint and the Brooklyn Rail. Pierre has worked as an educator at Indiana University (Bloomington), SUNY Old Westbury, Hunter College (CUNY) and Drew University among others. The artist lives and works in New York City.