Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz has produced a body of work that defies simple categorization in formal approach and narrative content. As an interdisciplinary artist, she has created costumes, illustrations, installations, mixed media, murals, paintings, performances, poems, and videos to address and explore the complexities of feminism, personal narrative, and Puerto Rican and Nuyorican culture. She has constructed her own personal stage, a crossroads of multi-layering disciplines, where she is free to use whatever creative processes and different formats in ways she sees fit to realize a project. The focus of her work remains on her heritage as a Puerto Rican woman and addresses the climate of Latinas in society.

Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz Born in Bronx, New York, 1973; lives in Bronx, New York; studied at Mason Gross School of Art-Rutgers University (MFA, 2008,) Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York (AAS, 1998), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 2002; Awards include: 2008 Mujeres Destacada Honoree, Ralph Bunche Fellow (2008) BRIO Award (2002, 2006), Artist In the Marketplace fellow (2004), Longwood Cyber resident (2004), FIT Outstanding Alumni (2001) Selected exhibitions include PedigreeI, Bronx Museum Project Space, Aqui y Ahora: Transcultura/ Here and Now: Transculture, Centro Cultural de España, El Salvador, The S Files 05 and No Lo Llames Performance/Don’t Call It Performance, El Museo del Barrio; Artist in the Marketplace 25, Bronx Museum of the Arts; Mercury/Mercurio, Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos; The L Factor, Exit Art, New York.
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