YIYO Rafael Domenech
Born San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1990 · Lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Yiyo Tirado-Rivera is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines the political, material, and aesthetic construction of the Caribbean landscape, with particular attention to Puerto Rico. Working across sculpture, installation, photography, painting, and design, he explores how architecture, tourism, public space, and economic development shape ideas of territory and identity.
His work engages Puerto Rico’s colonial history and the transformation of the island through the visitor economy, often appropriating familiar cultural and architectural codes to expose the systems embedded within them. Tirado-Rivera holds a BFA from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico and is co-founder and co-director of El Kilómetro in San Juan. His work has been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Americas Society, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, and Jameel Arts Centre.
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Forms of Memory and Rewriting
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Mahara+Co, Miami - 2025
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