Armanis Fuentes
Armanis Fuentes (b. 1997, Bayamon, Puerto Rico) is a multidisciplinary artist from Holyoke, Massachusetts. They received a BA in Art History and Studio from Williams College, Williamstown, MA and an AA in Liberal Arts from Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA. Fuentes is a member of the artist collective hotbed, and is based in Pittsburgh, PA with their collective-mates.
Spanning painting, performance, and sculpture, Fuentes investigates the complexities of domestic interiority and the dignity of feminized labor. Prepping, cooking, sweeping, mopping, washing, mending, decorating, dreaming—the job of a homemaker is never done; the perpetuity of domestic work sets the stage for Fuentes’s unpeopled paintings, where a mop can pose as a female nude or a cup of coffee can hold the desires of a day. Drawing from art history, Caribbean cosmologies, and their own family history of domestic labor, Fuentes’s work injects fantasy into the mundane, underscoring a fragile truce between The Worker and The Home, between the body and the industry of homemaking.
Middlebury Language Schools, Summer Portuguese Immersion Program
BA, Art History and Studio Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA - Honors in Studio Art
Guggenheim Summer College Workshop
AA, Liberal Arts, Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA - High Honors
Exhibitions
2024 Pittsburgh, PA, Brewhouse Arts, Getting the Spirit Out
2022 Williamstown, MA, Williams College Museum of Art, Searching for Sticky Voids
2021 Williamstown, MA, Images Cinema, Charmbracelet, October 1 - 31, 2021
Residencies and Fellowships
2023-2024 Distillery Emerging Artist Residency, Brewhouse Arts Association, Pittsburgh, PA
2020-2022 Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Williams College
2019-2020 Public Humanities Fellowship, Williams College
Authored Publications
“I Was Never There” Review of Nick Sordo’s ULCER, Bunker Review, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA, 21 August, 2023, https://www.bunkerprojects.org/fuentes-ulcer.html
“Tablillas and the Puerto Rican Interior,” Bunker Projects Pittsburgh, The Handoff, 24 August, 2022, https://www.bunkerprojects.org/fuentes.html
“Are we living in artist Nam June Paik’s Vision?,” The Guggenheim Blog, Student Reflections on Art,
https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/checklist/are-we-living-in-artist-nam-june-paiks-vision
“Tablillas,” The Document: The Guggenheim Summer College Workshop E-Book, 29 October, 2021, https://readymag.com/u1881633060/3091754/
Public Lectures
“Tablillas and the Puerto Rican Interior,” Bunker Projects, Bunker Talks, 18 December 2022, https://youtu.be/0TneVyn1s6I
“Meissen Incense Burner,” The Frick Collection’s Closer Look series, published on Youtube, August 202, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPECoA64FwE
Honors and Awards
2022 Art for Social Justice Prize, Williams College Art Department
2020 Colin and Lili Roche Winter Study Research Grant, Williams College
2019 Green Key Honor Society Award, Holyoke Community College
2019 Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Award, Holyoke Community College
2019 Honors Program Scholarship, Holyoke Community College
2019 Alice Guimond History Award, Holyoke Community College
2019 HCC Library BUILD Award, Holyoke Community College Library