
BIOGRAPHY
José Parlá was born in 1973 to Cuban parents in Miami, Florida and lives and works out of Brooklyn, New York. He studied painting at Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia; the New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida; and Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida. Solo exhibitions of Parlá’s work have been organized at institutions such as The Bronx Museum, New York (2022); Gana Art Center, Seoul (2022); Hong Kong Contemporary Art (HOCA) Foundation, Hong Kong (2019); Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (2018); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2017); Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas (2016); High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2015); amongst others. Public arts projects include permanent large scale commissions including Far Rockaway Writer’s Library, a collaboration between Snøhetta and Parlá, New York (2023); Amistad América, University of Texas, Austin (2018); One Union of the Senses, ONE World Trade Center, New York (2015); Nature of Language, in collaboration with Snøhetta, Hunt Library at North Carolina State University, Raleigh (2013); Diary of Brooklyn, Barclays Center, New York (2012). Parlá’s work is in several public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami; The British Museum, London; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; El Espacio, Miami; POLA Museum of Art, Japan; The Neuberger Museum of Art, New York; and The National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana. Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery will present José Parla’s next solo exhibition in Luxembourg in June 2024. The artist will also have a solo exhibition at PAMM, Pérez Art Museum Miami in November 2024.
EXHIBITIONS

Zidoun-Bossuyt Paris is delighted to present Perspective, a collective exhibition showcasing the works of Noel W. Anderson, Layo Bright, Feipel & Bechameil, Kim Dacres, Louis Granet, Alteronce Gumby, Eddy Kamuanga, José Parlá, and Olivier Souffrant, from February 8 to April 5, 2025.
Exhibition Paris 8 February - 5 April 2025