ABOUT

Juan Alberto Negroni, (b. Bayamón PR 1979), possess an MFA in Studio Arts from Southern Methodist University in Dallas TX, an MA Ed in Art History and Museum Studies from Caribbean University PR, and a BFA with a Major in Printmaking from Puerto Rico School of Fine Arts and Design. Counts with several solo projects, like The Defect Effect, Not About Beauty (Religion, Politics and other failures) in San Juan PR, A Midsummers Night’s Dream at 18.2208° N, 66.5901° W, Texas Woman’s University, Denton TX, Pacificaribbean at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo CA and Maneras de Llegar at Sagrado Corazón Univ. Art Gallery in San Juan PR.

Negroni has participated in multiple group shows such as Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study, SUPERFRONT LA, Los Angeles CA 2010, Dialectic City, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, Muestra Nacional de Arts, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan PR 2015 and 2018, Kinds of Monuments, Zattere Cultural Flow Zone, Dorsoduro, Venice IT, 2da Gran Bienal Tropical in Loiza, PR, Home & Visitor at Le Consortium, Dijon FR, Topologies of Excess: A Survey of Contemporary Practices from Puerto Rico (curated by Emma Saperstein and Mariola Rosario), Hail Mary at Liliana Bloch Gallery, Galée Royale and Shiraz Damani and Juan Alberto Negroni at Galerie Rompone, Cologne DE, Garden Party, curated by Danielle Avram, I cast to earth a seed, Galleri Urbane, Dallas TX, among many others.

He is recipient of the Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award 2015 and the 2017 Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'art Dijon Residency Fellowship, Red Bull Micro Grants and The Talley Dunn Equity in the Arts Fellowship. Negroni currently lives and works in Dallas, TX.