Valeria Nahyr Quiñones Torres
Valeria Nahyr Quiñones Torres (b. 1999, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico) is a painter based in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. She works with oil pastels, acrylic, markers, and oil on canvas and paper.
Her paintings grow from the quiet of self-examination through inner inquiry, socio-economic tension, spiritual transformation, and dream-based symbolism. Encouraged by her grandmother, she has painted since childhood, and that early intimacy shaped her interaction with art at a young age. Her work is identified for spiritual and dreamlike compositions that emerge from symbolism carried in dream combined with experience as a puertorican, involving socio-economical matters in some of her recent works. She constructs environments that feel mythic and fable-like accompanied by a bold chromatic and vibran Caribbean palette.
Her studio process favors layered grounds, decisive multidirectional lines, and matte passages that heighten contrast and spatial rhythm. Nahyr’s work is shaped by landscape elements, abstraction, figuration, movement and bold chromatic fields. Recurring strands include deforming structures and figures, creating scenes that can sometime convey movement. Recent bodies of work focus on coastal topographies, now with a Biology degree from University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, she merges her academic knowledge in her works. Her examination of internal guidance through natural guidance reflects vitality, the dialogue between conflict and resolution, merging cultural aspects of her puertorrican coastal living, and the dynamic nature of the creative soul.
Nahyr has exhibited at MUSA in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; some of her works and prints are held in the collection of Galería Barbershop in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; she has participated in Exposición Anual 2025 in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; had a live art event at Fall Soirée at Bela Mar in Isabela, Puerto Rico; exhibited at Quinto Orden Fest as part of the finalist board for the “Barrio Adentro” edition contest at MADMI in San Juan Puerto Rico.
