Description

Pablo Delano is a visual artist and photographer born and raised Puerto Rico, a territory defined by the Supreme Court as belonging to, but not a part of, the United States of America. Appropriating archival imagery, film footage and found objects, Delano created the immersive conceptual art installation titled The Museum of the Old Colony (MotOC), a continually evolving site-specific project exhibited most recently in the Central Pavilion at the 60 th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia 2024. The MotOC is a sweeping indictment of U.S. colonial rule in Puerto Rico from the 1898 invasion to the present. It also examines the complicity of museums in the processes of empire building and colonial control. Delano serves as the Charles A. Dana Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College, Hartford, CT and was appointed Post-Colonial Critic for Fall 2024 at the Yale School of Art.