BIO
Artist, Muralist, Educator
Josie Gonzalez (b. New York, NY) is a visual artist of Puerto Rican/Borikéña descent, who lives and works in New York City. As a teen, she apprenticed under artist Jorge Soto Sánchez at Taller Boricua/the Puerto Rican Workshop collective in East Harlem, New York and later worked as a muralist with the Cityarts Mural Workshop and the Murals in the Parks program.
Gonzalez continues to embrace her interest in building and representing community through her teaching artist practice, and creating artwork by collaborating on numerous community projects and commissions throughout the New York City area, partnering with local organizations, neighborhood groups, schools, libraries, and local businesses. Among her public art commissions is a faceted glass window installation at the Woodlawn Avenue station in the Bronx commissioned by the New York MTA Arts for Transit program; a collaborative design translated into a ceramic tile installation for the NYC Department of Education Sites for Students Program, P.S. 54, Bronx, NY; and an installation for The New York Public Library, Chatham Square Branch, NY.
In addition to a commitment to her art and teaching artist practice, Gonzalez has piloted, managed or led museum education programs for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bronx Children's Museum, the New-York Historical and El Museo del Barrio. Her work has been featured in Employee Art Shows at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New-York Historical.
Gonzalez has an M.A. in Museum Studies from the CUNY School of Professional Studies. Currently her work is on view in the virtual exhibition "Picturing America" at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum.
Photo credit: Ira Merritt (top photo)