HI, I’M LYNDA.
I make art about memory, place, identity and the everyday things that quietly become part of who we are.
I’m a Puerto Rican visual artist, muralist, art historian, educator and cultural storyteller working from Puerto Rico. Painting sits at the center of my practice, but the work also moves through public art, archives, writing, workshops, commissions and community learning.
I keep coming back to home.
Home is not always a building. Sometimes it is a person, a street, a bowl on the table, dominoes, a plant beside a wall, sunlight through a window or a story that keeps following us long after we leave.
My work looks closely at Puerto Rican memory, family history, everyday traditions, Caribbean nature and the small rituals through which culture survives.
One practice. Several ways of looking.
Painting + Portraiture
Original work centered on people, memory, place, Puerto Rican identity and everyday life.
Murals + Public Art
Site-responsive work made for businesses, organizations, neighborhoods and communities.
Workshops + Programs
Hands-on experiences connecting observation, art-making, history and storytelling.
Art History + Archives
Research and writing connecting Puerto Rican and Caribbean visual history with lived experience.
The work has lived beyond my studio.
Castillo San Cristóbal — Junior Ranger Day
Invited artist-educator leading young visitors and families through hands-on painting workshops connecting observation, art-making and the history of the site in San Juan.
Plaza Carolina
Selected for the Emergente public-art initiative and created a permanent approximately 9 × 10-foot work in Puerto Rico.
MADMi
Exhibition experience within Puerto Rico’s museum and cultural landscape.
Museo de Arte de Aguadilla y del Caribe
Work presented in a museum context connected to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Archival volunteer experience strengthening my relationship to preservation, primary sources and Puerto Rican cultural memory.
Artist-led workshops
Programs for children, families and adults built around making, looking, history, conversation and place.
Studio practice meets scholarship.
I earned my B.A. in Art History from CUNY Queens College in New York. My research increasingly centers Puerto Rican, Caribbean, Latin American and diasporic visual histories.
The artist, historian, educator, researcher and storyteller are not separate jobs. They keep teaching one another how to look.
Art history should have a front door.
My educational work is for curious people, including the ones who never thought art history was supposed to be for them.
That idea runs through ¿Quién Es?, The Art Tip Jar, The Journal, Art Radar and the workshops I build in real spaces.
Come learn →Art belongs where life is happening.
In museums, yes. But also in kitchens, schools, restaurants, historic sites, neighborhood walls, family homes, plazas and conversations.