My artwork expresses a yearning for connection, the power of human vulnerability as well as spiritual strength, and the often untapped powerful worlds that exist inside us all.
As a self-taught artist, my approach to drawing and painting started as a means to express emotions – my own as well as the emotionality of the images I created. Before I knew the importance of technique, before I knew to learn from or compare myself to master painters, I felt the significance of creating space for expressing the authentic self.
The themes explored in my collections are mainly about identity, spirituality, dreaming and personal power. My recent series include: Shatter the Frame (portraits of my artistic heroes, painted with a Modern, Cubist bent); Spiritual Abstraction (influenced by 20th-century Abstract Expressionism and Spiritual Abstraction, utilizing a bright contemporary color palette); Boricua Sankofa (exploring Puerto Rican and Diasporican identity and culture); and Sogni d’Oro (a collection of portraits about Gods, Goddesses, deities and spiritual guides, crossing cultures, time and space).
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
2023 – Fellow. Advocacy Leadership Institute – National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC), Washington, DC.
2017 & 2019 – Resident. Openings Art Residency – St. Mary’s on the Lake, Lake George, NY.
2016 – Fellow. Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship – Cycle III, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), New York, NY.
2016 – Participant. UNIDEE – University of Ideas residency, module: “Elapsing Time in Expanded Artwork: Practices of the Unconscious through Means of Activism.” Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy.
2016 – Art Collective Residency. Queens Creative Solidarity presents “Flushing Meadows Corona Park: What it’s Worth” – ArtBuilt Mobile Residency at Queens Museum, Queens, NY.
ART EXHIBITIONS
June 24th-27th 2025
“Art is Life” group exhibition
One Art Space
New York, NY
May 14th-18th, 2025
“Memory” group exhibition, curated by Carolina Peñafiel for LIC Arts Open
Rockrose
LIC/Queens, NY
May 14th-18th, 2025
“The Good Neighbor” group exhibition, curated by Raluca Anchidin for LIC Arts Open
Rockrose
LIC/Queens, NY
May 23rd – June 30th, 2024
“Pretty Pink Abstracts” group exhibition
Art Gotham (SoHo)
New York, NY
July 15th – August 12th, 2023
“Eat Me!” group exhibition curated by Mickey Boardman
Trotter & Sholer
New York, NY
January 6th, 2022 – January 30th, 2022
“New Beginning” group exhibition
Upstream Gallery
Hastings on Hudson, NY
September 13th, 2020 – November 1st, 2020
“USPS Art Project” group exhibition
Ely Center for Contemporary Art
New Haven, CT
November 2nd-7th, 2019
“Art for Tibet” group exhibition/benefit auction
Gallery 8
New York, NY
August 1st-17th, 2019
“NOW is the Future” group exhibition
Local Project Art Space
LIC/Queens, NY
September 1st, 2018
SEQAA – (C)art Festival: Popup participatory art festival/group exhibition
King Manor Museum/Rufus King Park
Jamaica/Queens, NY
June 21st – July 19th, 2018
“Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself” group exhibition
Cigar Factory
LIC/Queens, NY
January 18-21, 2018
“Onward (Vision for the Future of Women)” booth – participating artist in group installation at the Outsider Art Fair
Metropolitan Pavilion
New York, NY
June 20-July 25, 2017
Sunnyside Artists Organization’s Juried Art Exhibition “#GlimmerOfHope”
Claret
Sunnyside/Queens, NY
March 17-June 11, 2017
Occupy Museums “Debtfair” – participating artist in group installation at the Whitney Biennial 2017
Whitney Museum of American Art
NYC, NY
January 12-15, 2017
“Nasty Women Art Exhibit” group exhibition
The Knockdown Center
Maspeth/Queens, NY
July 2016
“New York Art Collective” group exhibition
The Living Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
December 2015-January 2016
“Small Works Show” annual group exhibition
Catalyst Gallery
Beacon, NY
October 2015
ArtNight “Art in the City of Dreams” annual group exhibition
Marriott SpringHill Suites Midtown
New York, NY
September 2015
“Soulful Arts Collective” group exhibition
The Living Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
November 2013
“Bliss Out at Topaz” group exhibit and performance
Philippines typhoon Haiyan benefit exhibition
Topaz Arts
Woodside/Queens, NY
June 2010
“Mashups: Musical Portraits”
Solo show for “Mashups” collaboration with photographer Muema Greenpoint Gallery Brooklyn, NY
November 2008-March 2009
“The B Sides” group exhibition
“Mashups” collaboration with photographer Muema
Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art
Newark, NJ
November/December 2005
“Symbols of Ourselves”
Art for Change presents works by Lorie Caval and Pablo Caviedes Carlitos Café y Galeria
New York, NY
June 2005
“Miracles on 104th Street Festival”
Melting Pot-NYC in conjunction with El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of the City of New York, outdoor installation
New York, NY
March/April 2005
“BAAD-Ass Women” annual festival, group exhibition
Bronx Academy of Art and Dance (BAAD)
Bronx, NY
September 2002
“Melting Pot” artistic collective, group exhibition, performance, dance party
Private loft
New York, NY
Lorie Caval 