ABOUT MANUEL ALEJANDRO MACARRULLA

Manuel Macarrulla is a painter, printmaker, and mask maker whose work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in New York and throughout the U.S. and the Dominican Republic. He studied painting at the University of Pennsylvania under Neil Welliver and Rackstraw Downes and many others. His work with figures in settings relating to his native Dominican Republic, or other real or imagined places, integrates cultural significance and magic realism.

Manuel Macarrulla won The Salmagundy President’s Award for a wood cut, “SCNY Printmaking and Monotype Show, NY, 2019”; he has been a finalist in “Percent for Art’s” Harry Van Arsdale’s mural competition and been awarded their NYC Police Department’s 45th Precinct mural commission (project canceled before execution was carried out); he received two Art Matters, Inc. fellowships; also, two New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowships; he won honoraria for mural designs from the Bronx Council on the Arts and Cityarts Workshop; he won a Universal Folding Box mural commission and formed part of the execution team for the Richard Haas mural at the New York Bar Association, both in 1983; he was a recipient of an Artist in residence grant at Altos de Chavón, DR, 1982; and he was also a studio assistant to Red Grooms, NY, 1979, and Charles Ross, 1984. 

Manuel Macarrulla’s work was exhibited in a “Special Projects” room at P. S. 1, in 1986. His work is also included in numerous private collections. His public collections include the Altos de Chavón Foundation, NY; El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, DR; El Museo del Barrio, NY; The Museum of Modern Art (The Study Collection, under “We’re All in the Same Boat,” an artists’ collective); The Smithsonian Museum of American Art; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY.