Raul Ayala
Raul Ayala is a visual artist and educator focused on mural production, drawing, and public art. His work attempts to question normative historical parameters and coloniality through a juxtaposition of a broad spectrum of primary sources, usually aiming for a collaborative and co-creative process. Ayala was the recipient of the 2014 NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artist, the 2015 Create Change Commissions Artist award of The Laundromat Project, the 2016 Rauschenberg Residency, the 2020 Skidmore Storyteller Institute Residency and the 2021 FORGE NYC Mentoring Program. Ayala finished his MFA on 2020 with a full merit scholarship in the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
