C.V.

May 07: BFA School of Visual Arts’ – Dept. of Photography (Cum Laude, Dean’s List) NY

May 01: BA Anthropology U. of Puerto Rico, District of Rio Piedras (Cum Laude, Dean’s List

2004-7: Internships: Silverstein Photography, Harpers Bazaar, Grey Healthcare Advertising & Rolling Stone Magazine;

Personal assistant, at different times, to photographers Sylvia Plachy, Suzanne Opton, & Donna Ferrato

May 07: Associate of the powerHouse Arena, NY: curated Song of Myself:  Sylvia Plachy, Charles Harbutt, Joan Liftin, Rebecca Norris Webb, Suzanne Opton, Alex Webb, Naho Kubota, Lucille Fornasieri Gold, & Jeff Jacobson

Dec 07: Curated MELAO, MELAO:  TUN, TÚN PA’ MI CAÑA – featuring Puerto Rican photographer Hector Méndez Caratini (PR)

May08: New York Photo Festival: Curated Tierra de Mudos – featuring Puerto Rican artist Victor Vázquez

July 08: Co-founded FotoVisura (www.fotovisura.com)

Jan09: Participated in a project about the Puerto Rican flag by photographer Susan Meiselas

Jan 09: Published Visura Magazine: Creative Director & Photo Editor (www.visuramagazine.com)

May09: Created the FotoVisura Latin American Pavilion during the New York Photo Festival – Two exhibitions, one of which I curated: Tu/Mi placer - featuring Luis González Palma.

June 09: developed a photography program in Puerto Rico – through FotoVisura’s educational program, lamRGB.

July09: Instructed a three week photography workshop with the assistance of Graham Letorney for the Niños de Nueva Esperanza project, culminating in an exhibition..

Sept09: Published Visura Spotlight, an online platform committed to supporting students and emerging artists in photography, video and multi-media.

March09: Curated Walk Through Museum—History of Rums through images by Jack Delano. San Juan, Puerto Rico

May10: FotoVisura Latin American Pavilion during the New York Photo Festival 2010, a Documentary Film, GuatePhoto and 2ndo  Foro Latino Americano de Fotografia de São Paulo, Brasil!

Dec10: Co-Founded The Envision Foundation for Photography and Digital Media

Bio

Short version:

Co-Founder of FotoVisura, Adriana Teresa is an emerging visual artist and curator from Puerto Rico based in New York. Publisher & Creative Director of Visura Magazine, producer of projects like Visura Spotlight, the FotoVisura Latin American Pavilion during the NYPH and IamRGB educational program—Adriana Teresa seeks to promote an international community within the visual arts.

Adriana’s first long-term project has been documenting, both in still images and on video, the life and music of Puerto Rican Jazz musician -MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow- Miguel Zenón.

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Long version:

Adriana Teresa was born in 1978 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

In the Fall of 2007, Adriana Teresa  curated her first exhibition, Song of Myself at the powerHouse Arena. It included work by nine photographers (Sylvia Plachy, Charles Harbutt, Joan Liftin, Rebecca Norris Webb, Suzanne Opton, Alex Webb, Naho Kubota, Lucille Fornasieri Gold, and Jeff Jacobson) each of whom contributed a selection of photographs of their choosing inspired by the first verse of Walt Whitman’s watershed poem of the same title. In December 2007 , she was invited to curate an exhibition in San Juan Puerto Rico titled MELAO, MELAO:  TUN, TÚN PA’ MI CAÑA – featuring a selection of never-before- seen images by Puerto Rican photographer Hector Méndez Caratini. The images were culled from two of Méndez photo essays: Haciendas Cafetaleras de Puerto Rico (1987-1990) and Raices Ancestrales en el Nuevo Mundo (1991-1996).

For the inaugural 2008 New York Photo Festival Adriana produced the Festival’s sole Latin American exhibition and curated Tierra de Mudos.  The same year, she co-founded FotoVisura, an independent visual arts organization.  Adriana Teresa also developed a photography and film production division to document the lives of emerging and inspirational artists. Her first long-term project has been documenting, both in still images and on video, the life and music of Puerto Rican Jazz musician -MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow- Miguel Zenón.

In 2009 she created and curated the FotoVisura Latin American Pavilion during the New York Photo Festival.  Adriana Teresa produced and curated: Tu/Mi Placer, featuring photographs by renowned Guatemalan artist Luis González Palma, with text by Graciela de Oliveira; and ANTI-plano, curated by Katya Cazar and featuring artists Sara Roitman and Ecuadorian artist Geovanny Verdezoto.

In January 2009 Adriana assisted photographer Susan Meiselas while conducting fieldwork for a project about the Puerto Rican flag. She then participated in a video and slideshow installation of the project that was displayed in April at La Villette in Paris.

The same month, as part of FotoVisura, she published Visura Magazine, taking on the roles of creative director and photo editor.  An independent online, invitation-only publication dedicated to the support and exposure of visual artists worldwide, Visura Magazine values the importance of providing a platform that features personal projects chosen by artist themselves. Amongst those with whom she has has collaborated are Shelby Lee Adams, Jeff Jacobson, Charles Harbutt, Suzanne Oprton, Ananké Asseff, Ernesto Bazaan, Eric Klemm, Ed Kashi and Luis Gonzalez Palma, Miguel Rio Branco, Lauren Greenfield, among others, and institutions like the New York Photo Festival, New York Photo Awards, Lucie Awards and IPA Awards.

Recently, it expanded with the launch of VisuraSpotlight, created to feature the work of emerging artists who are still in school or have recently graduated.

In the Summer 2009, she was hired to develop a photography workshop for a non-profit organization, Niños de Nueva Esperanza, a community, alternative-education organization with nearly 200 boys and girls from the ages of six to 16 in Sabana Seca, Toa Baja, a town in the northeast of Puerto Rico that has been impacted by poverty and violence.  Through FotoVisura’s educational program, I.am.RGB, Adriana developed and taught a three-week workshop to 20 students ranging in age from 12 to 15. The goal of lamRGB is to promote education and self-expression through photography. The workshop culminated in a traveling exhibition in Puerto Rico.