About the Nayda

Exploring my identity produces a visceral exchange of personal and political identity while cultivating an awareness of “otherness.” My art work represents a journey in my continuous search to make connections with the people around me and in the place I live. Revisiting my history, or Latin@ identity, is a determination to change how we understand the present. When we revisit history, time collapses; what was once present and is now past becomes vividly present once again.

I, Nayda A. Cuevas Ramos, was born in Puerto Rico. My family migrated in 1990 to Florida. As a means of negotiating alienation and the absence of familiar people and places I turned to the arts to explore my identity.  I obtained a BFA in Fine Art (2002) from Stetson University in Deland FL and her MFA in Visual Arts (2015) at Lesley College of Art (former Art Institute of Boston) in Cambridge, MA.

Ms. Cuevas passion emerged for unearthing a visual language to better articulate through visual arts her observation and/or interpretation of her Latin@ American experience. As an artist her interest lies in using history, art history, and current cultural trends to produce images of both her physical and emotional experiences of displacement.