Aurora De Armendi

book open to an image of a body shaped recess carved into a rock

Bio

Aurora De Armendi is an interdisciplinary artist. She is currently an Assistant Professor of art at SUNY New Paltz. She studied at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY(BFA, 2005) and The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (MFA, 2009). She was selected to be part of the program Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) at the Bronx Museum of Art during 2012-13 and she was awarded a full year residency from the Center for Book Arts, New York in 2013. In 2016, she completed artist residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Colorado) and Jamaica Flux (Queens), and was a finalist for the Cintas Foundation Fellowship showing her work at the MDCC Museum at the Freedom Tower in Miami. She was born in Havana, Cuba and currently lives in NYC.

I worked at the Lower East Side Printshop and fo more than 11 years at Two Palms Publisher in Soho, NY collaborating with artists.

Available for hire: Basic Bookbinding, Letterpress Printing, Screen Printing, Intaglio Printing, Book Design