Rosa Naday Garmendia is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose life and practice are shaped by the cultural landscapes of Miami, Florida, and La Habana, Cuba, where she was born. For more than seventeen years, she has created socially engaged work at the intersection of contemporary art, activism, and community engagement. While she works across installation, collage, drawing, and digital media, printmaking—especially relief and letterpress—has become central to her practice. Her projects address social justice, collective memory, and cultural identity, often in participatory forms that bring art directly into community spaces.
Her work has been featured nationally and internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, the Corcoran Gallery, Harvey B Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture, L’Artocarpe Contemporary Space in Guadeloupe, ReadyTex Gallery in Suriname, and the 12th, 13th and 14th Havana Biennials. Since 2012, she has also served as a cultural ambassador with Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, participating in exchange programs across the Caribbean.
She has received numerous awards, among them, The Ellies Creator Award, Miami Individual Artist (MIA) Award, Artist Access Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Wavemaker Grant, South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, and the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator Catalyst Award.
Notable residencies include Kala Art Institute, In Cahoots Residency, Oolite Arts Home and Away Residency program at MASSMoCA, Equal Justice Thematic International Residency and Vermont Studio Center artist Residency. Rosa Naday speaks English, Spanish and Haitian Creole and has been a teaching artist at the Perez Art Museum Miami since 2008.
Rosa Naday Garmendia Reyes es una artista multidisciplinaria y docente cuya vida y obra artística están moldeadas por los paisajes culturales de Miami, Florida, y La Habana, Cuba, donde nació. Durante más de diecisiete años, ha desarrollado un trabajo socialmente comprometido en la intersección del arte contemporáneo, el activismo y la participación comunitaria. Aunque trabaja en instalación, collage, dibujo y medios digitales, la gráfica—especialmente el grabado en relieve y la tipografía—se ha convertido en el eje central de su obra artística. Sus proyectos abordan la justicia social, la memoria colectiva y la identidad cultural, a menudo en formas participativas que llevan el arte directamente a los espacios comunitarios.
Su obra ha sido presentada a nivel nacional e internacional en el Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, el African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, el Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, la Corcoran Gallery, el Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture, L’Artocarpe Contemporary Space en Guadalupe, ReadyTex Gallery en Surinam, así como en las 12ª, 13ª y 14ª Bienales de La Habana. Desde 2012, también se ha desempeñado como embajadora cultural con Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, participando en programas de intercambio a lo largo del Caribe.
Ha recibido numerosos reconocimientos, entre ellos, The Ellies Creator Award, el Miami Individual Artist (MIA) Award, Artist Access Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Wavemaker Grant, South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship y el Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator Catalyst Award.
Entre sus residencias destacadas se incluyen Kala Art Institute, In Cahoots Residency, el programa Home and Away de Oolite Arts en MASS MoCA, Equal Justice Thematic International Residency y Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency. Rosa Naday habla inglés, español y criollo haitiano, y desde 2008 se desempeña como artista docente en el Pérez Art Museum Miami.