Email: jacoubreyes@gmail.com
Website: jacoubreyes.com
Jacoub Reyes is an interdisciplinary artist based in Central and South Florida, primarily working in printmaking and large-scale installation. His work utilizes experimental techniques to unravel his complex mixed-cultural heritage to build an imagined future based on belonging and resistance.
He has had exhibitions and interactive public performances at the Asian Art Museum, The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Frontera Galeria Urbana- Guadalajara, Museum of Latin American Art, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, International Print Center New York, The Mennello Museum of American Art, and Aqua Art Miami, among others. Reyes received awards and fellowships from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant, 4Culture Grant, Broward County’s Artist Innovation Grant, The Puffin Foundation, Allies in Arts Grant, Immerse Artist Grant, and Awesome Grant. Notable residencies include MAC en el Barrio Residency at Hunter College, NYC (2023), The University of California-San Francisco’s Library Artist in Residence (2022-23), Alfred University’s BIPOC Artist Residency (2022), and Ma’s House BIPOC Artist Residency (2021). Reyes is the Artistic Director for the City of Boynton Beach’s Quantum Eco-Park and President of the Florida Printmakers Society.
Reyes received his BFA from the University of Central Florida in 2013, where he was awarded the J.R. Hopes Scholarship.
Jacoub Reyes CV
Back and Forth: Keeping Time in Vaivén,
University of Minnesota, Katherine E. Nash Gallery (2025)
Esconderte del mundo,
Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
Sobre alas rotas,
RaÃces Cultural Center, Highland Park, NJ
Aiming for Freedom,
The Avery Research Center, Charleston, SC #bitres, Co-lab Projects, Austin, TX
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,
Amherst County, VA
Beyond the Canvas: Integrating Art, History, and Mental Awareness in K-12 Education,
Woodblock Workshop,
Kean University, Union, NJ
Broward County Purchase Award Halo Arts Fellowship
Mid America Print Council Emerging Artist Grant Award
Broward County Cultural Division’s Artist Support Grant
William Graves Sackett Fellowship Fund
“Auto-Retrato”(espÃritu de plátano) acquired by Green Library at FIU Libraries
Artist Talk, The Ethics of Care in Contemporary Art,
UWM, Milwaukee, WI
Participatory Design Printmaking Workshop,
Kean University, Union, NJ
Presentation of “”Al-Andalus Amalgam”,
MAPC, KSU, Manhattan, KS
Kolaj Institute publishing a book on Folklore including collages by Jacoub Reyes
BoldJourney Interview
CanvasRebel Interview
Todo lo que se,
Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, NYC
Sugar Works,
Kalmanovitz Library, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Torn & Frayed: New Prints at the New York Academy of Art,
New York, NYC
Finger Mullet Film Festival,
The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL
Bernice Bing Open Call,
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition-Big Ink,
The Art Museum, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
2023 Afro-Latinx Exhibition,
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Group Drawing Exhibition,
African American Cultural Heritage Center, Miami, FL
Ursa Gallery,
Bridgeport, CT
Word of Mouth: Folklore,
Collage, & Community, A’ the Airts, Sanquhar, Scotland
Florida Printmakers Biennial,
Wynwood Gallery, Miami, FL
Beam Project NYC Finalist,
Brooklyn, NYC
CultureFest 305,
HistoryMiami Museum, Miami, FL
Changing Climate Residency,
Santa Fe Art Institute, NM
Folklore & Collage Residency,
Kolaj Institute Knoxville, TN
Aviário Studio Artist in Residence,
Ferreira do Zêzere, Portugal
The Factory Artist in Residence,
Manchester, NH
MAC en el Barrio en NYC Artist & Research Residency,
NYC
Land Residency,
Artists Association of Nantucket, Nantucket, MA
DAWA Virtual Artist Residency,
Chicago, IL
College Book Art Association Member Support Grant
JCBA’s Salzberg Residency in the Book Arts Semi-Finalist,
Boca Raton, FL
New Voices Semi-Finalist,
Print Center New York, NYC
Facilitator, Celebrating Puerto Rican Art & Culture,
El Museo del Barrio, NYC
Nomination, 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellowship
United Arts Individual Artist Grant
South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant
Guest Lecturer, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation,
UC Berkeley
Speedball Product Development Consultant,
10-inch Brayer Insight
Puerto Rico and the American Plantation System,
UCSF Library, CA
The Exquisite Corpse: Rising Concerns,
Jill Krutick Fine Arts, Mamaroneck NY
Saturnia Film Festival Activism Art Fair,
Fortezza Orsini, Sorano, Italy
Elemental Exhibition and Contest,
Iredell Arts Council Gallery, Statesville, NC
Open Space: BIPOC Residency Exhibition 2022,
Cohen Gallery, Alfred, NY
Stand Out Prints 2022,
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
Under Pressure, The Hub on Canal,
Founders Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, FL
CollarWorks Flat Files 2022-2023,
Troy, NY
Collaborative Community Woodblock Wheat Paste Mural,
SPF ’22, Dania Beach
Innovation Lecture, The Circuit,
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Denbo Artist Fellowship,
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Zygote Press Artist Residency,
Cleveland, OH
Speedball Art Instagram Takeover: Experimental Printmaking Workshop Teaching Artist,
Miami-Dade Public Library System
Woodblock Prints & Medicine: Sugar & Tobacco in the Caribbean,
UCSF Library Graduate Student Lecture and Critique, University of Miami
4Culture Grant Award,
Seattle, WA
Broward County Cultural Division’s Artist Innovation Grant President,
Florida Printmakers Society
Orange County Fire Rescue Training Facility Public Art Project Selection Panelist Studio Visit Magazine Vols. 51,
Juror: Lauren Szumita, The Fitchburg Art Museum HEADS Magazine, U.D.L.I Editions, debut during the 20th edition of NADA Miami
Salon 2022, SNAP! Gallery,
Orlando, FL
Masters of linocut and woodcut,
Tartu Artists’ House, Tartu, Estonia
Masters of linocut and woodcut,
Pärnu Artist House, Pärnu, Estonia
Exhibition Forthcoming,
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
ArtFields 2022,
Lake City, SC
Seminole County Printmakers Exhibition,
Sanford City Hall, Sanford, FL
Our Shared Futures,
SGCI 2022, Madison, WI
Sanford Utility Box Public Art Project,
Sanford, FL
2022 Seattle Design Festival Woodblock Wheat Paste Mural
American Landmark Artist-in-Residence,
Plantation, FL
Alfred BIPOC Artist Residency,
Alfred University, NY
University of California,
San Francisco Library Artist in Residence
The Oxbow School Artist Lecture
SGCI Madison 2022 Scholarship
FusionFest Steering Committee Representing Cuba and Puerto Rico
University of Central Oklahoma Visiting Artist and Lecturer
Montserrat College of Art Visiting Artist
Quantum Eco-Park Artistic Director,
Boynton Beach, FL
17th Participatory Design Conference Puerto Rico,
Panelist, UK
Our Histories,
The Lundin Fine Arts Center, Knoxville, TN
PaperWest: 3rd National Works on Paper Juried Exhibition: Sam Vernon ESTAMPA,
Terrain Spokane, Spokane, WA
la sagrada botanica, Creative City: Immerse,
Orlando, FL
The Webb School Visiting Artist and Educator,
Knoxville, TN
Ma’s House,
Shinnecock Nation, Southampton, NY
Sidereal Press Woodblock Workshop,
Seattle, WA
La Liga Woodblock Workshop,
San Juan, PR
The Puffin Foundation
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Speedball Professional Artist Network
Flexcut Tools
The Woven Tale Press Volume IX #10
Hello Print Friend Podcast Episode 108
The Hand Magazine Issue 34
New Works,
Maitland Art Museum
White Canvas Exhibition,
Mennello Museum of American Art
On the Spot,
CityArts
A Year in Review,
Mills Gallery
This is America: A Tribute to Our Diversity,
ART/ifact Gallery El Encuentro, SGCI, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Crisis Residency
Artist-in-Residence, Maitland Art Center Allies in Arts Grant
Artist Relief Fund
Orlando Arts Magazine
Orange TV- Live from Home with Renata Sago
Mennello Museum and Art Bridges Studio Visit and Interview
Countable/Non-countable, Webber Gallery
Dar y recibir,
Frontera Galeria Urbana, Tlaquepaque, Mexico
Precious Cargo,
Polk State College
7th Annual Artists Exhibit,
Lake Mary Museum
Umbra: New Prints for a Dark Age
— juror Alison Saar,
IPCNY Dark and Full of Flowers, Tempus Projects
Moth Migration Project,
Bundaberg Regional Gallery,AUS
Moth Migration Project,
Gympie Regional Gallery, Gympie, AUS
Moth Mural,
Surface Prep Supply, Funded by Haines City
the plant we found grew into a flower but shortly died thereafter,
Creative City Project: Immerse
Frontera Galeria Urbana,
Tlaquepaque, Mexico
Artist-in-Action,
Maitland Art Center
Arte Insurgente,
Tlaquepaque, Mexico
FusionFest Tortilla Press Community Print Event with Kill Joy Woodblock Workshop,
City of Lake Mary
Screen Printing Workshop,
Polk State College
Creative City Project: Immerse Artist Grant
Awesome Grant
Shifting Perspectives,
Cornell Fine Arts Museum
Youth Art Exhibition Judge,
Maitland Rotary Festival Artist Talk,
College of Central Florida
Panel Discussion: Shifting Perspectives: Art by the Students of the Art Time Outreach Program
Guest Speaker, Arte Insurgente-El santuario y otros atentados,
Tlaquepaque, Mexico
Rotten Paradise,
Seminole State College
Beyond Good and Evil,
Mills Gallery
Arabesque: Contemporary Conversations,
Albin Polasek Museum
Eclectic. Contemporary. Local,
Seminole State College
Woodblock Workshop,
Polk State College
Lecture and Woodblock Workshop,
Seminole State College
Woodblock Workshop,
Osceola Country Schools Art Conference
Garden of Gethsemane,
Kristin Michelle Mason Art Gallery
The Road to Damascus,
The Henao Contemporary Art Center
Shadow Play: Veiled Truths,
FAVO Gallery 247
PaperWest Works on Paper
— juror Willie Cole,
University of Utah One Foot in the River,
Lilian Davis Gallery, Winona, MN
Printmaking Invitational,
Polk State College
Art is Moving,
SunRail Roving Art Gallery
Osceola Arts Juried Show,
Osceola Center for the Arts
Southern Graphics Council International Grant
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Permanent Art Collection
City of Orlando’s Public Art Collection, Orlando, FL
Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Big Ink!, Newmarket, NH
Hoopsnake Press, Tupelo, MS
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
BFA in Drawing and Printmaking, University of Central Florida, 2013