José Parlá

José Parlá was born to Cuban parents in Miami, Florida, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He studied painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design, the New World School of the Arts, and Miami Dade College. His art has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at POLA Museum Annex in Tokyo, Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Bronx Museum, Istanbul’74, and the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation and is in the collections of the British Museum in London, Brooklyn Museum in New York, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, and other prominent galleries and museums. His large-scale public art projects include permanent installations at University of Texas, Austin, and the One World Trade Center in New York City.