José Parlá

José Parlá (b. 1973, Miami) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. The artist is a critically acclaimed, multidisciplinary artist working in painting, large-scale murals, photography, video and sculpture. He started painting walls in Miami’s underground art scene of the early 1980s and went on to study at Miami Dade Community College, New World School of the Arts (NWSA) and Savannah College of Art & Design. Parlá’s work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, The Bronx Museum, High Museum of Art, SCAD Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, National YoungArts Foundation, Gordon Parks Foundation, Goss Michael Foundation, Istanbul’74 Arts & Culture Festival, and the Havana Biennial, among others. Parlá’s work is in several public collections including the British Museum, London; the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba; and Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami. Permanent Public Arts projects include commissions by Far Rockaway Writers Library, New York; the University of Texas, Austin, Texas; One World Trade Center for his monumental mural painting, ONE: Union of the Senses, New York; Barclays Center, New York; BAM FISHER(Brooklyn Academy of Music), New York; Chiltern Firehouse, London; North Carolina State University’s Hunt Library by Snøhetta, North Carolina; and at Concord City Place, Toronto.