Aurelis Lugo

(Ponce, Puerto Rico, 1985 -), has a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts Education with a concentration in Visual Arts from the UPR Río Piedras. During the last few years, Aurelis has dedicated herself to teaching visual arts both in Puerto Rico and in the United States. Currently, she works as a teacher teaching visual art classes at Herbert Akins Rd Middle School and Pullen Arts Center both in North Carolina, where she lives.Her artistic works in recent years have reflected the responsibility she feels to represent black Puerto Rican women by referring to historiographical marks in Caribbean society. Her works have been exhibited in group and individual exhibitions in places such as: Cape Fear Studios & Gallery (Fayetteville, NC),Diamante Arts Cultural Center (Raleigh, NC) Boomer Gallery (Tower Bridge, London), AHA FINE ART Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) Espacio Emergente (Bayamón, PR) , José Tous Soto Gallery in El Capitolio (San Juan, PR), Epifanio Fano Irizarry Room (Ponce, PR), Casa Escuté Carolina Museum (PR), among others. In the same way, she has large-format works (mural) in Puerto Rico as well as abroad. In Puerto Rico, she has murals in the municipalities of Ponce, San Juan, Morovis, Coamo and Arecibo; Abroad: in Manoguayabo in the Dominican Republic and in North Carolina in the United States, among others.