José Morbán

José Morbán (b.1987 Dominican Republic) is a visual artist who lives and works in Santo Domingo. He works from found photographs, documents and other memorabilia to try to make sense of the history of the place now called the Dominican Republic, as well as the Caribbean. He creates fictions from these documentations as a way to revise our collective memory and the figures who shape it. He is a graduate of the School of Design at Altos de Chavón in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Recent exhibitions include Trópico es Político: Arte Caribeño Bajo el Régimen de la Economía del Visitante, MAC, Puerto Rico; Pal Patio at Calderón Gallery, New York; El padre es de cristal, la madre de oro, Centro Cultural de España, Santo Domingo; one month after being known in that island at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, Basel. He was an artist in residency at Corsicana Artists & Writers Residency, Corsicana, TX (2023); Pagoda Imaginaria, Ciudad de Guatemala (2022); and Art Omi, Ghent, NY (2021). His work is part of the collections of JP Morgan Chase, Centro Eduardo León Jiménes, and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. He is a member of ONTO (@ontopub), an artists’ publication based in Santo Domingo with a satellite in New York.