Artist Short Statement

I haven't been working on any film and photo projects for the last few years. The passings of my amazing mom Teresa Roman and my best Friend Nelson Bermudez took a toll on me to a state of shock and sadness. And suddenly when you are coming to terms slowly, visiting a therapist, and coming out slowly, life hits you with a third strike. My dad, two weeks ago had a hemorrhagic stroke, and right now he is in coma in Puerto Rico. They called my sister and I to sign paperworks to get him out of life support. That is something I just don't believe in. As I write this I am ready to head to Puerto Rico to see my dad one last time.  Life is never promised tomorrow.  

Update My dad passed away on Saturday, October 26, 2019 - 4:28pm

"KNOW WHO YOU ARE AT EVERY AGE" EXHIBITION

ONE OF MY PHOTOS (not the one above) IS ON EXHIBITION AT “KNOW WHO YOU ARE AT EVERY AGE”ALONG WITH MANY OTHER GREAT ARTISTS WORKS. INFO BELOW FOR THE SHOW. THANKS A MILLION TO CURATOR EDWIN RAMORAN FOR THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

Know Who You Are At Every Age

On View from April 04 – April 26

The Bronx River Art Center presents:

“KNOW WHO YOU ARE AT EVERY AGE”
by Q_RAIDER with BDGRMMR

Session Four of our Curatorial Practice Series

WHEN: April 4 - April 26
Opening Reception Friday April 4th from 6-9pm

WHERE: 305 East 140th Street (off Alexander Avenue)

This non-thematic group exhibition is the result of a collaborative project initiated by Q_Raider, a curatorial platform as public profile representing the nascent Office of Curatorial Work founded by independent curator Edwin Ramoran. For the Bronx River Art Center’s Curatorial Practice Series, Q_Raider has chosen to focus on mentorship to individuals and collectives eager to learn the logistics of a gallery space. For this session, Q_Raider has enlisted artist collective BDGRMMR to layout the exhibition.

KNOW WHO YOU ARE AT EVERY AGE introduces and acknowledges a hefty number of works and things by artists who cross generations, disciplines and cultural specificities. Together, Q_Raider and BDGRMMR hope to facilitate discussion around white cube politics as well as invite the public to ask questions about the artworks and things on view, instilling gallery visitors with power and confidence when they may feel vulnerable and uncomfortable.

BDGRMMR (pronounced Bad Grammar) is a New York City-based artist collective founded by multimedia artist Yulan Grant, writer Justin Allen and sound artist Brandon Owens (NU GROWTH). Taking its name from assumptions of inarticulacy that surround Black diasporic language, their eponymous zine explores race, gender and sexuality at their intersection through interviews, profiles, poetry and graphic design.

Q_Raider and BDGRMMR will be available for public and private discussions and workshops about the exhibition. Dates for public events and happenings will be available on the website. You may also email Karine Duteil Kduteil@bronxriverart.org for inquiries.

KNOW WHO YOU ARE AT EVERY AGE is tripartite:
1) Art for All Ages and For Shows introduce works on loan from individuals or collectives, or being presented specifically during the run of this group exhibition.

2) S/O (shout outs) is comprised of things courtesy the Office of Curatorial Work and unearthed for public sharing and access.

3) The History of Storytelling is a reading rainbow courtesy the Office of Curatorial Work and comprised of “ephemeranema” such as VHS videotapes, books, CDs and DVDs, pamphlets, mail, stuff you keep in Manila folders, music, and comic books. Gallery visitors are encouraged to take time to get into it.

Art for All Ages
Danny Alba, Keith O. Anderson, Anonymous, BDGRMMR, Kia Benbow, Idan Bitton, Andy Brown, Marcel Christian, Shawn Y. Cupid, Edmundo de Marchena, G., Ivan Gaete, Jesse Garza, Permi K. Gill, Vicente Golveo, GrenAIDS, Adam Hendricks, Cesar Hidalgo, Phillip Hodge, HOUSE OF LADOSHA, Scott Hug, In The Garden, Kamille Jackson, Mike Jarvis, Nikos Kanarelis, Sarah Kipp, Peter J. Lester, Jo-el Lopez, Patricia Lukoszek, Carlos Melgoza, MLYLT videos: Hima B., Matthew de Leon, Viet Le, Zavé Martohardjono, Rafael T. Melendez, Hoang Tan Nguyen, Larilyn Sanchez, Richard Morales, Netza Moreno, Carlos Osuna, Hermes Payrhuber, Lydia Pfeffer, Tomiko Pilson, Jeffrey Owen Ralston, Kenya (Robinson), Nilaya Sabnis, Tom Stoelker, Jaret Vadera, Mary Valverde, Nodeth Vang, Vega, Elisa Velazquez, Conrad Ventur, Antonio Vicenty, Wicked Parks, Missy X, Kurt Zager

For shows
Anonymous, David Thom Bowers, Henry Cruz, Camillo DiMaria, Zilvinas Jonusas, Michael Loris, Laura Notini, Anthony Nacerino, Fayemi Shakur, David van Leesten.

S/O
Reza “Asung” Afisina, Ferdinand Agriam, Gabbie Agriam, Ibrahim Ahmed III, Anonymous, Tomie Arai, Syaiful Ardianto, ARK, Jodie Barnes, Anjali Bhargava, Marc Bijl, Brent Birnbaum, Timothy Blum, Booyakasha, Candice Breitz, Matthew Burcaw, Dina Bursztyn, Karlos Cárcamo, Curtis Carman, Cecile Chong, StatusHoe Collective, Gregory Corbino, Henry Cruz, Roberto Cuoghi, Cunning Linguist, Pradeep Dalal, Sonia Louise Davis, Soigné Deluxe, Andrew Demirjian, Designer Imposter, Alejandro Diaz, Jordan Eagles, Dahlia Elsayed, e-mael, Nicky Enright, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Indigo Felix, Ray Felix, Mario Fernandez, Sean Paul Gallegos, Jerry Gant, Joel Garcia, Anthony Goicolea, Ben A. Gonzales, Edwin Gonzalez-Ojeda, Lawrence Graham-Brown, Josh Harris, Heather Hart, Nicole Helen, Daniel Patrick Helmstetter, INBOX, it/EQ Derek Jackson, Angelo Jannuzzi, Jayson Keeling, Andrew H. Kim, Swati Khurana, Terence Koh, Daniella La Bocca, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Juanita Lanzó, Shaun Leonardo, Aristides Logothetis, MARTINI., Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Ivan Monforte, Carrie Moyer, Phuong Linh Nguyen, Rocky Noel, Luis Pagan, Paradox Vested Relics, Rico J. Reyes, Jonathan Pease, Paul Pfeiffer, Carlo Quispe, Gabby Quynh-Ahn Miller, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Jaya Rhee, Jose Rivera, Paulo Rojas, Crisha Shahzad, Ethan Shoshan, David Smith NYC, S’MOORE A., StatusHoe Collective, Herb Tam, Francisco Vallejo, Carlos Villa, Roberto Visani, Hank Willis Thomas, Audrey E. Wong, Dorian Wood

The History of Storytelling
Adicumi, Laurie Anderson, Kenneth Anger, Anonymous, Lee Balan , Yason Banal, Bedwetter , BLOOM, Ricardo A. Bracho, BTFA, Jacqueline Brookes, Enzo G. Castellari, Sheran Cisneros, Colorlife, Corpus, Enrique Cruz, Jon Cuyson, Chauncey Dandridge, Daydreamer, Michael DeJong, Wong Dowling, Alexander Eliot, Tayo Fatunla, FRANK, Jane Gabriels, Godzilla, Rory Golden, Virginia Grise, Adam Hendricks, Michael Hermann, David Hirsh, Kate Huh, HUNG, HYCIDE, JOSH, Cory Koons, La Voz de Esperanza, Rene Laloux, William Lamson, Margot Lovejoy, Barbara Malaran, George Marshall, Mary, Caesar Meadows, Anthony D. Meyers, Mosaic, My Comrade , New Observations, Newark Metametrics, Nhassan Studios, Jeanine Oleson, Nueva Luz, Nestor Otero, Robert Ransick, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Charles M. Schulz, Josh Smith, Lee Sobel, Spank, Spunk, Ivan Velez, Visual AIDS, Andy Warhol, John Waters, Oliver Andrew Wells, Megan Whitmarsh, Wigstock

The exhibition is fourth of BRAC’s “Curatorial Practice Series,” which sparks dynamic, inter-disciplinary collaborations between guest curators, artists, and art students enrolled in BRAC educational programs. The program curator is Karine Duteil. BRAC is dedicated to stimulating social growth through the arts by deepening our understanding of our mutual reliance, our dependence on the environment, and the interconnection of the natural and man-made parts of our urban world.

For more information visit: www.bronxriverart.org

Caption: Untitled, 2014 Photograph Courtesy Q_Raider

This project is supported in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Related education and public programs are supported, in part, by the Simón Bolívar Foundation, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, Con Edison and The New York Community Trust.

The Bronx River Art Center expresses its appreciation for the support of The City of New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Councilwoman Annabel Palmer, and members of the Council’s Bronx Delegation.

"GAY" EXHIBITION CURATED BY IVAN MONFORTE

My short video "RELAX" will be on view February 5, 2014 - May 7, 2014 at Longwood Art Gallery - "GAY" Exhibition Curated By IVAN MONFORTE.  

GAY examines the cultural shift that has taken place in identity within the last decade by looking at the production of gay male artists of color from 2003-2013. Through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance and text, the artists in the exhibition interrogate, de-construct, embrace and celebrate the gay label. This show contains adult content.

Artists include: David Antonio Cruz, Jose Joaquin Figueroa, Cacy Forgenie, Lawrence Graham-Brown, Imani Henry, Steve Locke, Rafael Melendez, Lucas Michael, Troy Mitchie, Netza Moreno, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, Carlo Quispe, Carlos Sandoval De Leon, Jacolby Satterwhite, Hector Silva, Nodeth Vang, Rob Vassilarakis, Charlie Vázquez, Antonio Vicenty and Dorian Wood.

About the Curator: Ivan Monforte was born in 1973 in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. He is the recipient of a UCLA Arts Council Award, a fellowship to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from the Tides Foundation and an Art Matters Foundation grant for research in Samoa. He curated the exhibition I Never Meant to Hurt You at Buzzer Thirty in 2006. Monforte currently resides and works in Harlem where he maintains a studio practice and provides HIV prevention education to gay, bisexual and transgender homeless and runaway adolescents.

ON VIEW: FEBRUARY 5 - MAY 7, 2014

Opening Reception:  Wed, Feb 5, 2014,  5:00-9:00pm

Bronx Culture Trolley Reception:  Wed, Mar 5, 2014, 5:00-9:00pm

Bronx Culture Trolley Reception:  Wed, Apr 2, 2014, 5:00-9:00pm

Closing Reception:  Wed, May 7, 2014, 5:00-9:00pm

Location:

On the campus of
Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse

(at 149th Street)
Bronx, NY 10451

Phone: 718-518-6728

E-mail:

longwood@bronxarts.org

Gallery Hours:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 12-5pm; Closed

Wednesday, Saturday. and holidays.

Directions:

Hostos is easily accessible by the 2, 4, and 5 IRT Trains.

RELAX. A Short Film by ANTONIO VICENTY

2014.  8 MINUTES

ON VIEW: FEBRUARY 5 - MAY 7, 2014

IN THE REALM OF DREAMS AND FEARS - UPCOMING SHOW

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013  OPEN RECEPTION 

5 PM - 9 PM

FEBRUARY 6, 2013 - MAY 1, 2013

LONGWOOD ART GALLERY

(HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE) 450 GRAND CONCOURSE 149 STREET

BRONX, NY

Vertebrae33, Arise, 2012, Digital Illustration

This group exhibition is organized by artist and guest curator Antonio Vicenty, inspired by his interest in horror/fantasy films. It presents recent phantasmagorical works in drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture and video by visiting artists from Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States. Participating artists include Pierre Ayotte, Patricia Ayres, Michael Paul Britto, Fernando Carpaneda, Kari Christensen, Shawn Conn, Steve Durham, Elisabeth Faraone, Julio Garay, Alba García, Mike Hrubovcak, Jayson Keeling, Steve Lewis, Claire Martial, Ivan Monforte, Owen Mulligan, Lucrecia Novoa, Peter Pier, Matt Pinyan, Radical Sem Dó, JohnnyRamos, Vertebrae33, and John Zhao. This exhibition marks Vicenty’s first time in a curatorial role.

PRESS RELEASE:  IN THE REALM OF DREAMS AND FEARS

ANTONIO VICENTY SOLO EXHIBITION:
Project Room: February 6-May 1, 2013

Antonio Vicenty, Plastic Masked Kids, 2011, Digital Photograph

Curated by Longwood Arts Project, this exhibition is Vicenty’s first solo exhibition of his recent experimental film and photography. Inspired by his early childhood in Puerto Rico where he visited funeral homes and walked cemeteries with his family to bury their loved ones, he uses the props, images, visual effects and photography from his infatuation with horror films resulting in experimental photography and films that are eerie, mysterious and scary, with elements of horror, fantasy, everyday fears and the inevitable fact of death through artificial, surreal and dreamlike means.

About the Curator

Antonio Vicenty is a Bronx filmmaker and photographer whose major influences were Italian and US horror films from the 1970s and 1980s. Films by such genre notables as Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, Lucio Fulci, David Lynch, and George A. Romero inspired Vicenty’s work that use images of graveyards, children in Halloween masks, and old dolls to explore personal narratives, sexuality, and gender identity. He was the recipient of BCA’s prestigious BRIO award in 2006. His documentary and narrative films have been included in festivals and exhibitions throughout the United States and London. Vicenty currently lives and works in the Bronx.

PRESS RELEASE:  IN THE REALM OF DREAMS AND FEARS

Working on Short Films and a Feature

I've been working on a couple of short films and a feature film for the past two years.  2013 will be the release of all my works to Film festivals and Art shows.  Here is two new images of a short film about gun violence with a toy gun.   I will posting more images soon.

HORROR AND FANTASY SHOW

IN THE REALMS OF DREAMS AND FEARS: THE HORROR AND FANTASY SHOW FEBRUARY 6, 2013 - APRIL 3, 2013 CURATED BY ANTONIO VICENTY

SHORT FILM "SLUMPY" FOTOS

"SLUMPY" - Creepy found footage, kid, doll and devilish things. 4 Minutes. Working on three short films and the feature film THE SILENT LIFE.

"THE SILENT LIFE" An Early Promo Poster of my Upcoming Film

An early promo poster for my upcoming film THE SILENT LIFE.  Film will be release between late 2012 and 2013.  

THE SILENT LIFE starring Ken Burmeister and Valerio DaSilva.  The film is a story about silent love and sadness between two men of opposite worlds.  

This poster was designed by the amazing artist Michael Paul Britto.  Some of Britto’s works can be seen at PLANETBRITTO.tumblr.com or go to his website and check out his amazing works BRITTOFIED.COM

FOLLOW MY PHOTO/VIDEOS IN OTHER SITES

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DONKEY. DIGITAL. 2008. BY ANTONIO VICENTY

FLYING SEAGULL. JONES BEACH, NY.  DIGITAL. 2011. BY ANTONIO VICENTY

                    $1 DOLLAR PIZZA JOINT.  MANHATTAN, NYC. 2011. DIGITAL. BY ANTONIO VICENTY