Ada del Pilar Ortiz

Ada del Pilar Ortiz received her bachelor's degree with a concentration in Painting at the School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico in 2018. Her work has been presented in various spaces such as the Arsenal de la Puntilla ICP Museum, KM 0.2, Liga de Arte de San Juan, Área: Lugar de Proyectos, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico and the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center in New York. She has participated in residencies including Área: Residency Program (2019), “La Práctica” at Beta Local (2019), and will soon be participating in The Studios at MASS MoCA, Puerto Rican Artist Fellowship residency (2022). She recently completed an artistic commission for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico under the “MAC en el Barrio '' program titled “Treinta años en un día” (Thirty years in one day), a community based site-specific installation . Her work has been supported by the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. Ada currently lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico.