Andina Marie Osorio’s practice utilizes photography and image based installations to examine the genealogical analogies of domestic space and lineage – in relation to her Puerto Rican heritage and her queer identity. Her interior photographs of domestic spaces transform into pictorial collages that question how to make a portrait without a physical body. In her installations, the ephemera and materials used incite incidental memories and activate ancestral energies that reference the feminine domestic setting.
Osorio also explores sexuality by assuming the guise of different members of her family utilizing archived formal portraits. She employs set design and wardrobe to embody the characteristics of the original image. While simultaneously introducing minute alterations at her discretion, she exposes juxtapositions in the liminal spaces between generations, genders, and sexualities. Andina’s portraits illustrate an understanding of the queer image that is explored through still life, the gaze and environmental portraits.
She is a recipient of the City Artist Corps Grant of New York City and the Artist Grant 2023 (DRABL.) Andina was one of 50 artists to participate in the ForFreedoms AWAKENING Billboard Campaign. Her work has been shown at the LES Gallery at The Clemente and has been featured in Musee Magazine and Port Magazine. Andina is a current fellow at Yale CCAM and Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), Kingston, NY.
She is a MFA Candidate at Yale School of Art.