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Born in Miami into a family of Cuban exiles, José Parla moved to Puerto Rico at a very early age before returning to Miami again when he was nine. He currently lives and works in New York, and only recently reflective of the wanderings of today’s urban populations. In the context of these migrations and upheavals, José Parla’s work attempts to extract and methods of architectural construction: cement, wood, vinyl as well as those of traditional art like paper, paint, powder dye, wax, and ink. Yet, because these fragments are inflected by the memories and experience of the artist, he considers them to be paintings in sense that is probably truer that one that refers merely to the physical presence of pigments and oil. Parla describes the objects of his method as segmented realities or memory documents. Each bears the name of the location or experience from which it draws its source.
José Parla lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He was awarded the Francis Mc Common Scholarship to the Savannah College of Art & Design, Georgia in 1989. He was exhibited his work in various group and solo shows in Miami, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo. His work is featured in the collections of Agnes B., Tom Ford, Katy Barker, and has been published in The Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Village Voice, Tokion, Rolling Stone, Another Magazine, Dazed & Confused, The Fader, Relax magazine in Japan and Refill magazine in Australia.

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