Néstor Pérez-Molière

Néstor Pérez-Molière

Néstor Pérez-Molière

Néstor Pérez-Molière was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and currently resides in The Bronx, New York. He was part of the ArKst in the Marketplace 2017 and CreaKve Capital’s Taller 2019 mentorship programs, and was included in The Bronx Museum of the Art’s Fourth Biennial. He has exhibited at the Museo de las Américas, the Clemente Soto Vélez, Longwood Gallery, and the Liga de Estudiantes de Artes de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Interested in becoming an educator, he currently teaches digital and darkroom photography, as well as media literacy.

Untitled
(from The Losses, The Heartbreaks, The Hungers...)

2020 Digital chromogenic print 60.96cm x 50.8 cm / 24 x 20 in

My artwork entails a process of self-discovery; a series of confessionals revealing private conflicts; hoping towards catharsis. Through this cathartic process, I hope to depathologize negative feelings so that they can be seen as a source for political action rather than its antithesis. I expose mental health issues like depression, dysmorphia, food addition, and loneliness: describing their mechanisms, scrutinizing their origins, and illuminating the impossibility of fixing them.

Untitled
(from The Losses, The Heartbreaks, The Hungers...)

2020 Digital chromogenic print 60.96cm x 50.8 cm / 24 x 20 in

Untitled
(from The Losses, The Heartbreaks, The Hungers...)

2020 Digital chromogenic print 50.8cm x 60.96 cm / 20 x 24 in

Hunter MFA

This spring, the Hunter College MFA Program in Studio Art will graduate 26 artists who completed their degree over the challenging months of the COVID-19 pandemic. These talented MFA Thesis Candidates are exhibiting their work in six group exhibitions at 205 Hudson, in addition to this online spotlight hosted by Hauser & Wirth. At time when the public audience for in-person exhibitions has been limited by the pandemic, we are excited to provide this digital platform to the emerging artists from Hunter College’s MFA Program in Studio Art.

Images: All photographs by Néstor Pérez-Molière