Awilda Sterling DuPrey: Taller Comunitario de Arte del performance
@ El Schomburg
2538 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Wednesday, October 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
We are excited to welcome Awilda Sterling-Duprey to Chicago as part of our Residual:Irse sin dejar rastro exhibition programming.
Awilda Sterling DuPrey
Taller Comunitario de Arte del performance en el Schomburg.
Wednesday, October 15,2025 | 6pm to 9pm
RSVP by texting 312.646.8278
Artist Talk and Community Celebration
Saturday, October 18, 2025 | Doors open at 6pm
Awilda Sterling-Duprey (Puerto Rico, 1947) is an Afro Caribbean visual, installation, and performance artist. She became interested in Abstract Expressionism in the 60’s through Franz Kline’s Black Paintings. Conceptual Art and Dada became major influences on her visual work with Caribbean religious dance traditions. Sterling studied at Pratt Institute in the late 1970s, a time when performance had become accepted as a means of artistic expression in its own right. Sterling keeps searching and integrating her sense of Afro Caribbean-ness with an emphasis on the pictorial and the quotidian. She is a 2010 USA Artist Fellow and a 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellow. Sterling is the recipient of awards and artist’s residencies including: EL Resuelve, El Serrucho (2017; 2019); Tree of Life Artists Grant (2018); El cuadrado gris (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico (2020); USA Artists Relief Grant (2020); and the MASS MoCA Artists Residency (Summer 2023). Her most recent practice consists of dance improvisations while drawing blindfolded (exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, 2022).
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