Adal Maldonado

Adal Maldonado (ADÁL) is a prolific, self-identified Nuyorican (portmanteau referring to Puerto Ricans living in New York) photographer whose work centers around questions of displacement and identity. Born in Puerto Rico, Maldonado moved to New Jersey as a teenager before eventually settling in Brooklyn, New York at age seventeen. He studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and returned to New York in 1975 where he co-founded The Foto Gallery, a gallery centered around promoting the status of photography as a fine arts medium.

Maldonado also collaborated with poets, writers, and musicians to create art and experiences that speak to the Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States.  Before his death, Maldonado lived the last few years of his life photographing in Puerto Rico.

Title: Un Problema Con La Conversación
Artist: Adal Maldonado (1948 – 2020)
Date: 1976     
Medium: silver gelatin            
Dimensions: Image size: 7 ½ x 5 ¾ inches; Framed: 13 ½ x 9 ½ inches
Accession Number: H77.46.1  
 

Title: A Self-Defeating Gesture
Artist: Adal Maldonado (1948 – 2020)
Date: 1976
Medium: silver gelatin            
Dimensions: Image size: 8 x 7 inches; Framed: 13 ¾ x 10 ½ inches
Accession Number: H77.46.2    

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