Based in the New York Metropolitan area, Josué Morales Urbina is an award-winning installation and sculpture artist, whose work primarily explores transcultural displacement. Among frequent themes that arise in his art are a pervading sense of foreignness and the impermanence of memory, which he examines via contemplative abstract installations. These works are composed of a broad range of materials, including ordinary household objects such as drinking straws, coffee beans, toasted white bread, and rubber bands.

The questions of foreignness in Morales Urbina’s work are rooted in his being born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and having lived across the United States as a “third culture kid” (an individual raised in a culture other than their parents). Yet, as much as he creates to engage audiences in such explorations, Urbina’s artmaking has also afforded him the self-discovery that he, ultimately, creates art “to build a home for me; my art practice is my home.”

Among Morales Urbina’s achievements as an artist, are solo and group exhibitions in New York, New Jersey, and Texas, as well as being an alumnus of the renowned Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Maine. In 2023 he received the New Jersey State Council on the Arts — Sculpture Finalist Award. He also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at San Antonio, with a minor in Art History and Criticism.

Location: 150 Bay St (Entrance in the corner of provost and first streets)

Time: 6:00 pm — 9:00 pm EDT

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