
A Nuyorican conceptual interdisciplinary visual artist who was born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx. Recipient of a 2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, among other prestigious awards, she has exhibited in Italy, Spain and across the United States. Museum exhibitions include The Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio, Bronx Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum, and the New Museum. Medina is currently a professor at SVA’s MFA Art Practice program and lives and works in New York.
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Exhibitions
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
The Shank, curated by Lia Gangitano
Participant Inc., New York, NY2013
On the Flip Side A
Casita Maria Gallery, Bronx, NY2013
Glendalys Medina
Unosunove Gallery, Rome, ItalySELECT SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES:
2019
Dear Me & The Shank LIVE
Performa 19, New York, NY2017
No Microphone
The Kitchen, New York, NY2016
No Total
Artists Space Books and Talks, NYC, NYBWA for BLM: Video Screening
New Museum, New York, NY2013
Region 0 The Latin Video Art Festival
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center At NYU, New York &
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo, Spain2012
49th Festival of Nuova Consonanza
The American Academy in Rome, Rome, ItalySELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
NADA Miami
Charles Moffett & ArtFare, Miami, FLI Come To This Place
Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY2018
NADA Miami
EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Miami, FLQUEENIE: Selected artworks by female artists from El Museo del Barrio’s Collection
El Museo del Barrio at Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NYKey Change
Agency Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2017
Spots, Dots, Pips and Tiles
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FLDisarming Geometries
Dorsky Gallery, Queens, NYBEAT
BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NYHarlem Postcard Summer 2017
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY2016
Arte y Amor
Taller Boricua, New York, NYSpots, Dots, Pips and Tiles
Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NYMystique
St. Joseph’s College, New York, NYSPRING/BREAK Art Show
Ground Floor Gallery, New York, NYBodies
Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, Maine2015
Untitled Art Fair
Participant Inc., Miami, FLCut N’ Mix: Contemporary Collage
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NYBOGO
Davidson Contemporary Gallery, New York, NYAfter AFROPOLITAN
Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, NY2014
Failing to Levitate
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY2013
Dialogue
Tambaran Gallery, New York, NYLebenswelten
Kulturhaus Karlshorst Gallery, Berlin, GermanyJustice Blind
Rush Corridor Gallery, New York, NY2012
Bronx Lab: Style Wars
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NYI Can Do That
Variable Space, Chicago, IL2011
Calling: The First AIM Biennial
Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY2010
Do It Yourself
The Damon Dash Gallery, New York, NYThe Mothership Has Landed
Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY2008
Salad Days III
Artists Space, New York, NY -
Education
EDUCATION
2008
Hunter College, New York, NY
MFA2002
Hunter College, New York, NY
BFA2001
Slade School of Fine Arts, London -
Awards
2020
Grant recipient, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY2019
Fellowship, Jerome Hill Foundation, St. Paul, MN2017
Residency, Ace Hotel NYC AIR2016
Fellowship, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program Studio Immersion Project Fellowship, New York, NY2014
Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY2013
Rome Prize Winner in Visual Arts, The American Academy in Rome, Italy2012
Grant recipient, NYFA Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Arts, New York, NY2010
Residency, Bronx Museum of Art, AIM 30, New York