Yanira Collado

Yanira Collado (b. Brooklyn, New York,1975) is a multimedia artist working with site-specific installations that encompass audio, sculpture, photography and collage. Collado’s practice is a meditation on the toponymy of materials and architecture, centering on the process of restoration, healing, and reconciliation.

Art Residencies and fellowships include the Mississippi Museum of Art, Residency, Jackson Mississippi, 2023-2024, Art Pace Artist Residency, San Antonio, Texas, 2022 and the Joan Mitchell Art Residency, New Orleans 2023. Yanira Collado was awarded the 2026 Sauer Artist Prize. In 2025, Collado was granted a USLAF Latinx Fellowship. In 2024 Collado placed best in show at the Orlando’s Museum of Art Florida survey, Florida Prize and in 2022 she was awarded an emergency grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts to support her exhibition Areito: Allusions of Sacred Geometry and Diaspora.

Group shows include, Intermittent Islands, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonoah New York, 2026. Nuestro Vaiven, The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, 2025, To weave the sky/ Textile abstractions, El Espacio (The Jorge Perez Collection), Miami, Fl, 2023. Hip-Hop or Return of the BoomBap, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, NY 2023. El Triennal, Estamos Bien, Museo del Barrio, New York, 2020-21. Penumbras: sacred Geometries at Project Row Houses, Houston, TX, 2019.Solo exhibitions include Residual Elements/Meditaciones sobre lo Fragmentado at Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK, Montreal, Quebec, 2025. Transformative Elements at the Baker Museum in Naples, FL, 2023-24. For those who Transcend in the wind/ Ritmos para Oya, MOCA Museum, Miami, FL. Zafa/ A spell working of Temporal Geometry at the Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, 2023.

Solo exhibitions include Residual Elements/Meditaciones sobre lo Fragmentado, Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK, MTL, Quebec, Canada (2025); Transformative Elements, Baker Museum, Naples, FL (2023- 2024); For those who Transcend in the wind/ Ritmos para Oya, MOCA Miami, FL (2024); Zafa/ A spell working of Temporal Geometry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (2023).