DAVID ZAYAS
Plastic artist and international muralist, with 20 years of experience and individual exhibitions such as “ANIMALIA” Caguas Art Museum, “MURALIS: Muralism Exhibition Contemporary” Museum of the Americas, VSJ and “Recent Work” UPRM Art Gallery. In 2012 he created the project “Un Zayas por Día” with which he managed to enter collections in Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay and the US. His work belongs to different collections between private and institutions such as the Caguas Art Museum, The Museum of the Americas in VSJ, MUSA Art Museum at the UPRM, among others. Considered one of the most prominent muralists in the country, he has participated in local projects like Color Caribe, Santurce es Ley and Los Muros Hablan. Internationally as La 12na Havana Biennial, Cuba, Loiza Festival of El Barrio in New York, Curatoria Forense, VillaAlegre, Chile, Street Art Tallahassee, FL, the 3rd and 4th MULI International Biennial of Muralism and Public Art of Colombia, 352 Walls of Gainesville, FL , Fiesta de Colores in Ecuador, Artist 4 Israel in Israel, several cities in MA with Beyond Walls, HOY Villa Francisca in Santo Domingo, Caribbean Festival in Santiago de Cuba, Zamora Urban Art Festival, Ecuador, The International Art Biennial Miramar, Buenos Aires, Argentina, the International Muralism Biennial of Tarija, Bolivia among others.
In 2017 he received the key to the city of Lynn, MA for his outstanding work as a muralist. This same year he made the painting “Renacer Borincano”, which has become an iconic piece for Puerto Ricans, in and outside the country. In his career he has murals in places such as the ActivArte permanent room of the Puerto Rico Museum of Art, in the permanent African Heritage room of the Museum of the Americas, VSJ, on the façade of La Galería Petrus , In Corredor Afro in Loíza, on the façade of the main entrance of the San Patricio Plaza shopping center, in the Ecos Sport Park facilities, in the Banco Popular de la Pad. 22 in Santurce, in the facilities of the Hipódromo Camarero, on the roof of the Juana de Caicedo y Cuero Educational Institution in Cali, Colombia, in the Mayor’s House of Zamora, Ecuador, among others.
He has recently collaborated with the artist Bad Bunny, with the piece “We are Well” that he performed live and was part of the P FKN R concert at the Hiram Bithorn Stadium and with his mural “People live here harvesting the future” that appears in the video musical and documentary “El Apagón” in collaboration with independent reporter Bianca Graulau. The Acoustic Shell was also inaugurated Ramon Frade de Cayey, where he created one of the most important murals of his career. Design for the poster of the XXV Crafts Fair of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company. And the official postmark of the United States Postal Service commemorating Self-Esteem Month, for the Mall of San station
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