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Krisia Ayala

         

Teaching
Birding
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About me



Krisia Ayala is an interdisciplinary artist, illustrator, and art educator born in San Juan and raised in Cataño, Puerto Rico. She began her academic studies in art in 2007 when she attended the San Juan School of Visual Arts and Design @eapdpr. Here, Ayala earned a Bachelor’s degree in Image and Design, specializing in Traditional Engraving and Mixed Media printing techniques.

In her work, she uses digital and print media to expand and confront problems related to the parallels between human and bird migration as she explores the concept of being displaced from your natural habitat. In 2014, Ayala settled in New York City and earned a Masters’s Degree in Interdisciplinary and Digital Art Practices from City College of New York @ccny_mfa.

Through this program, she created international educational workshops to serve the children of Eastern Europe called: If you had Wings, Where Would You Go?. This experience informed her artistic work, which created a fusion of generative art, illustrations, motion design, and abstract cartography.

Ayala is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Design and Multimedia Arts at City College of New York. Some courses she offers are Experimental Illustration and Motion Design, and Visual Narrative.
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Artist Books




Richard Roe: A Memoir of a Legal Person
Book by Tyler Coburn, Illustrations by Krisia Ayala





Homing Instincts, The only home we know. Artist Book, 2016


 


Pajareando por Puerto Rico, Artist Book, 2011
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Featured Work          

Interdisciplinary Art





The Birds, The humans and The coast.
Screen print on Plexiglass, 2018







Homing Instincts, The only home we know. Artist Book, 2016







 

Migration Maps, Phyrogravure using Generative Art, 2015




Murmuration Installation, Test 1.
Created at the Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts Practice MFA 2015

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Illustrations




Tu Partida y la Lluvia, Risograph, 2018




Bike Girl, Digital Illustration, 2014




Chango Llorón, Ink and Graphite on Copy Paper, 2019

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Art Education




Precious moments with my students, 2015-2019




Graphic Desing Class, Riverdale EDF Camps, 2017





Creative Minecraft Architecture, ESF Camps, 2017
©KRISIA M. AYALA
2020