Artista multidiciplinaria, quien creció en Juncos Puerto Rico.

En 2017 completó un Bachillerato en Artes Plásticas, (BFA) con concentración en escultura y un menor en pintura de la Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico. Cursó estudios conducentes a una Maestría en Artes Plásticas (MFA) con concentración en Cerámica en la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, recinto de San Germán, de cual se graduó en 2025.

En 2021 el Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña adquiere la obra La escritura gangrenada. Desde 2012 ha participado de varias exhibiciones colectivas tanto en museos, galerías y espacios alternativos, dentro y fuera de Puerto Rico. Es cofundadora de Taller Malaquita, espacio de investigación multidisciplinario de las artes plásticas y visuales dirigido por mujeres artistas. En 2022 tuvo su primera muestra individual titulada “MACHIHEMBRAO: laboratorio de cuerpos” donde explora la dualidad que puede habitar un solo cuerpo y en 2023 su segunda muestra en el Museo de los Santos titulada “HABITAR EL FUEGO: Ánima Sola”. Para el 2025 abre su tercera muestra individual, Entre la tierra y la memoria en el espacio Unknown Society. Actualmente es profesora en los Departamentos de Escultura y Pintura en la Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico. 

Education

2025

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Concentration in Ceramics, Minor in Photography

Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, San Germán Campus

San Germán, Puerto Rico

2017

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

Concentration in Sculpture, Minor in Painting

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Solo Exhibitions

2025

ENTRE LA TIERRA Y LA MEMORIA

Unknown Society

Bayamón, Puerto Rico

2023

HABITAR EL FUEGO: Anima Sola

Museum of Saints and National Art

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2022

MACHIEHEMBRAO: laboratorio de cuerpos

Reunión

San Juan, Puerto RicoGroup Exhibitions

2026

 La Quema

Nuestro Barrio, Universidad de Sagrado Corazón

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Our Soil: beyond materiality

Museo de Suelos del Caribe y Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts

St. Frederiksted, St. Croix

 9th Ceramics Fleet

Plaza San Morel, Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Material

Galeria Surco

Bayamon, Puerto Rico

 Pasando Factura

I.A.M. Art,

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2025

 El Altar Puertorriqueño

Museum of Saints and National Art

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Multiplicidades: Group Exhibition and Ceramics Market

Unknown Society

Bayamón, Puerto Rico

 Por Amor a la Liga 6 (Benefit Auction)

Liga de Arte de San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Contemporary Vision of Puerto Rico

CSB Fine Arts

DUMBO, New York, USA

 De la Clase a la Galería

Museo Galería de Lajas

Lajas, Puerto Rico Pop-up Exhibition

Souvenir 154

Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Group Exhibition

I.am.art

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Arte con Orgullo

Ateneo Puertorriqueño

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Puerto Rican Women in the Arts

Liga de Arte de San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 8th Ceramics Fleet

Plaza San Morel, Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Puerto Rican Women in the Arts

El Schomburg

Chicago, Illinois, USA

2024

 Raíces y Resonancias: Narratives and Peripheries

Galería Joaquín Parrilla, Casa Pueblo

Adjuntas, Puerto Rico

 Por Amor a la Liga 5 (Benefit Auction)

Liga de Arte de San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Perspectivas Plásticas

Unknown Society

Bayamón, Puerto Rico

 7th Ceramics Fleet

Popular Center

San Juan, Puerto Rico2023

 Por Amor a la Liga 4 (Benefit Auction)

Liga de Arte de San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Ceramists’ Gathering

Plaza Las Américas

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Small Favors

The Clay Studio

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

2022

 Legados

Institute of Puerto Rican Culture

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 6th Ceramics Fleet

Plaza San Morel, Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Barro Danzante

Ballet de San Juan, Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2021

 Ceramics Fleet

Plaza San Morel, Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Ceramists’ Gathering (Virtual Exhibition)

2020

 Intervenidas

Museum of the Americas

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2019

 C02

Liga de Arte de San Juan & Anexo Proyecto

San Juan, Puerto Rico Los Males Quita

Taller Malaquita

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 C01

Vicenza Espacio Creativo & Anexo Proyecto

Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

 Artefacto

Instituto de Subcultura

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2018

 National Art Exhibition of Puerto Rico

Former Spanish Naval Arsenal

Institute of Puerto Rican Culture

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 MECA – Caribbean Art Fair

Former Spanish Naval Arsenal

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Correspondencia

Taller Malaquita & El Lobi

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2017

 Graduating Class Exhibition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

Former Spanish Naval Arsenal

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Opening of Taller Malaquita

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Cuerpo Presente, 18th Annual Sculpture Department Exhibition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

Lorenzo Homar Gallery

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2016 Colectivo, School of Architecture

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2015

 De los talleres, Annual Painting Department Exhibition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

Lorenzo Homar Gallery

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Con Tacto, 17th Annual Sculpture Department Exhibition & Competition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

Lorenzo Homar Gallery

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Annual Exhibition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

Lorenzo Homar Gallery

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2014

 Acciones en la Capilla (Performance Exhibition)

Antiguo Arsenal de la Puntilla

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Abierto a Todo, 16th Annual Sculpture Department Exhibition &

Competition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

Lorenzo Homar Gallery

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Sin Fondo, Annual Exhibition

Corralón de San José

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

2013

 Dentro y Fuera, 15th Annual Sculpture Department Exhibition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

Museum of San Juan

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico Opuesto

Galería Guatíbiri

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2012

 Annual Painting Department Exhibition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

Lorenzo Homar Gallery

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Teaching Experience

2019–Present

 Professor, Department of Sculpture and Department of Painting

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2026

 Workshop: Research on Local Clays

Organized by the Center for the Study of Figurative Ceramics, Pitirre

Project, and Maxwell Hanrahan Foundation

Constructo

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2025

 Graduate-Level Professor, Department of Art

Interamerican University of Puerto Rico

San Germán, Puerto Rico

2023–Present

 Portfolio Review Committee & First-Year Seminar Committee

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2024–Present

 Painting Seminar Evaluation Committee

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico2021–2022

2020

2020

2018–2019

2018

2017

       Representative, Sculpture Department, Academic Council

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Course Design: CLAY: Alternative Firing Techniques and Surface

Finishes

Department of Sculpture

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Sculpture Instructor for Children

Liga de Arte de San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Instructor, Basic Sculpture, Basic & Intermediate Sculptural Ceramics,

and Metal Sculpture/Welding

Extension Program

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Sculpture Workshop Instructor

Escuela Central de Artes Visuales

Museum of Contemporary Art

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Drawing Instructor for Children

Liga de Arte de San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Preschool Art Teacher

Colegio Mi Primera Enseñanza

Las Piedras, Puerto Rico2012–2015

 Educator and Recreation Leader, Special Summer Camp

Juncos, Puerto Rico

Professional Experience

2016–Present

 Co-founder and Artist, Taller Malaquita

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2025

 Installation Assistant for “La lluvia, la casa y el río invisible” by Dhara

Rivera

ArteYunque, Portal del Yunque

Río Grande, Puerto Rico

 Installation Assistant for “Violencia al filo” by Dhara Rivera

Liga de Arte de San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Exhibition Design, Annual Exhibition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Exhibition Design, Collective Exhibition (EAPD)

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Artist Talk: Emerging Artist, Work and Trajectory

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Artist Conversation with Angélica Rivera

Unknown Society

Bayamón, Puerto Rico

2024

 Panel Discussion: Perspectivas Plásticas

Unknown Society

Bayamón, Puerto Rico Exhibition Design and Installation, Perspectivas Plásticas

Unknown Society

Bayamón, Puerto Rico

 Exhibition Design, 2024 Graduating Class Exhibition (EAPD)

Museum of San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Juror, Student Competition

Liga de Arte de San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Design and Fabrication of Awards, TRUE COLOR FEST Theater Festival

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2023

 Installation and Collaboration, “La silla nuestra de cada día” by Toni

Hambleton

Reunión

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Ceramic Production Collaboration with Beatriz Santiago for the exhibition

OTTILIA

CRAC Alsace

Altkirch, France

 Panelist, “Arte/Evolución” with Henrik Tomassini and Maribel Canales

Museum of Saints

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Furniture Design and Fabrication for “Lo que trajeron las aguas” by

Nitzayra Leonor Canales

Reunión

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2022

 Assistant in Design and Installation, “Yo híbrido, Tú hibridas” by Dhara

Rivera

Reunión

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Studio Assistant to Mónica Rodríguez (mold-making and casting) for

Fuerza NaturalGalería Km 0.2, Santurce

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2021

 Design and Fabrication of Altar for the Permanent Work

“Del dolor y la rabia nace resistencia y rebeldía” by Elizabeth Barreto

Museum of the Americas

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Curatorship and Exhibition Design, “Transparencia del Silencio” by

Laurie de Jesús Lagares

Museo La Casa del Libro

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2017–2020

 Collection Maintenance

Museum of the Americas

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2020

 Artist Assistant to Ernesto Pujol

Rubber mold-making and resin casting for the Education Program

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2019

 Artwork Handling, Condition Reporting, and Packing

“Los 50 años de la Liga”

Museo de San Juan, Museo de Las Américas, and Liga de Arte de San

Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Installation, Retrospective Exhibition “Espejo de la humanidad” by José

R. Alicea

Museo de Las Américas

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Production Assistant, Day of the Dead Altar by Elizabeth Barreto

Museo de Las Américas

San Juan, Puerto Rico Conservation Assistant

Museo de Las Américas

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2014–2018

 Gallery Guide and Museum Attendant

Museo de Las Américas

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2017

 Panelist, “De Artistas por Artistas: Espacio Generado por Artistas”

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Sculpture Teaching Assistant, Summer Camp

Liga de Arte de San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2015–2017

 Volunteer, Glaze Preparation and Kiln Coordination

Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Sculptural Ceramics and Wheel

Throwing Courses

Professor Dhara Rivera

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2016

 Artist Assistant to Beatriz Santiago

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Assistant to Artist and Curator Vanessa Hernández

Film: “Prótesis”

Cataño, Puerto Rico

 Installation Assistant, “Inapropiado: Retrospectiva de Sobre la mesa, Y no

había luz y otros” by Debora Hunt

El Lobi

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Installation Assistant, “32 con 8” by Adán Vallecillo

El Lobi

San Juan, Puerto Rico Installation and Deinstallation Assistant, “Imalabra” by Antonio

Martorell

Museo de Las Américas

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2014

 Installation Assistant to Artist and Curator Vanessa Hernández (Solo

Exhibition)

Área Lugar de Proyectos

Caguas, Puerto Rico

 Volunteer and Participant, El Gran Sopón (Collective Action Project)

Led by Vanessa Hernández

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Installation Assistant to Dhara Rivera

“Palingeria” from the series Quiebrasombras

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Grants, Awards, and Recognitions

2026

 De Puerto Rico a Penland

Art Residence/Fellowship

Penland, North Carolina US

2025

 “Cerámica para todos” Grant

Workshop: Geometría Expandida with ceramic artist Cody Hoyt

Pitirre Proyecto, Estudio 154, Souvenir 154, Estudio Córdova, Liga de

Arte

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2024

 Academic Excellence, Honors Program

Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, San Germán Campus “Cerámica para todos” Grant

Ceramic Furniture Workshop with ceramic artist Kelsie Rudolph

Pitirre Proyecto, Estudio 154, Souvenir 154, Estudio Córdova

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2023

 Academic Excellence, Honors Program

Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, San Germán Campus

2020

 Emergency Fund Grant for Visual Artists in Puerto Rico

Beta Local

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2017

 Special Award, Department of Sculpture

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2015

 Honorable Mention

Transmutación

 Honorable Mention

Muestrario

 Honorable Mention

¿Quién sostiene a quién?

 Con Tacto, Annual Sculpture Department Exhibition & Competition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2015

 Award

Annual Exhibition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico2014

 Honorable Mention

Abierto a Todo, Annual Sculpture Department Exhibition & Competition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Public Collections

 Institute of Puerto Rican Culture

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Private Collections

 Hernández Castrodad Collection

Caguas, Puerto Rico

 Marianne Ramírez

Director, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC)

Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

 Dr. Eduardo Rodríguez Vázquez

Hand Surgeon; Board President, Center for Advanced Studies

Puerto Rico

 Dr. Letticia Reyes

Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico

 Pablo Santiago

San Juan, Puerto RicoLic. Julio Lugo Rivera

Ponce, Puerto Rico

 Dr. Windy Cosmes

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Lic. Bárbara Pérez Santos

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Pont Collection

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Dafne Elvira

Artist

San Juan, Puerto Rico Osvaldo Santiago Arocho

Owner, OsviArte

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Jorge Sierra

Graphic Artist

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Ángel L. Ortiz Agosto

Owner, Cooperativas TuCoop

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Dr. Ileana Muñoz Ladrón

President, School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Yonaira Rivera

Washington, DC, USA

 Prof. Linda Sánchez Pintor

Artist and Educator

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Sharleen Santos

Toa Baja, Puerto Rico

 Prof. Rubén Moreira

Professor of History

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Eduardo Cabrer

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Ángel Méndez

Puerto Rico Ceramics

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Rosario Fernández

Photographer

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Echevarría Family

San Juan, Puerto Rico Aidyl Hernández

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Mireidi Méndez

Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

 Dr. Reynaldo Padilla Teruel

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Publications

2026

 Espejo de Artista: Yamileth Flores

La antropología del cuerpo-territorio

Periódico Claridad (Newspaper)

 Esto es Vida

“Let's Meet Yamileth Flores”

Modo de Vida (Magazine and Web)

2025

 Rodríguez Cotto, Sandra D.

“Yamileth Flores: Between Earth, Memory, and Play as Political Act.”

EyBoricua (Web)

 Rivera-Irizarry, John

“Entre la tierra y la memoria.”

All About Art (Web)

 Torres, Debbie

“Entre la tierra y la memoria.”

DEBAS Art Series (Web)

 “Entre la tierra y la memoria.”

Taller Malaquita (Web)

 Puerto Rican Women in Art (Exhibition Catalogue, Print)

2024

 Rodríguez Cotto, Sandra

“Maestros de maestros, exhiben las perspectivas de su arte.”

En Blanco y Negro con Sandra (Web) Álvarez, Sirio A.

“Premian lo mejor del True Color Fest.”

Pride Society Magazine (Web)

2023

 “Habitar el fuego: Ánima Sola.”

En Blanco y Negro con Sandra (Web)

 “Art Exhibition ‘Habitar el fuego: Ánima Sola.’”

Repeating Island (Web)

2022

 “La escritura gangrenada.”

Google Arts & Culture (Web)

 Legado (Exhibition Catalogue, Print & Web)

 “Nueva exposición en la reubicada sala de proyectos Reunión.”

90 Grados (Web)

 Velázquez Collado, Edwin

“Machihembrado de Yamileth Flores en la Sala de Proyectos REUNIÓN.”

Puerto Rico Art News (Web)

 “Machihembrado: laboratorio de cuerpos de Yamileth Flores.”

AutoGiro (Web)

2019

 González Rodríguez, Mariangel

“Espacio Vicenza.”

Recorrido Cultural en Puerto Rico, Enlazartes (Web)

 Velázquez Collado, Edwin

“Colectiva de arte contemporáneo ‘C01’ en Vicenza Espacio Creativo.”

Puerto Rico Art News (Web) González Rodríguez, Mariangel

“Artefacto, Instituto de Subcultura.”

Recorrido Cultural en Puerto Rico, Enlazarte (Web)

2018

 Martínez, Javier

“Artistas en la Muestra Nacional.”

AutoGiro (Web)

2017

 Graduating Class Exhibition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico (Catalogue, Web)

 “Flash y cultura de Cuerpo Presente.”

El Nuevo Día (March 1, 2017)

2015

 “Certamen de escultura.”

El Nuevo Día (November 2, 2015)

 Annual Exhibition

School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico (Catalogue, Print)

2014

 Torres Arzola, Raquel

“Laudo: XVI Certamen/Exhibición Departamento de Escultura, Escuela

de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico.”

Arte y Pensamiento Contemporáneo (Web