Las Nietas de Nonó

Las Nietas de Nonó (1979/1982, Carolina, Puerto Rico) is an artistic performative duo composed by afro-diasporic siblings Mapenzi Chibale and Mulowayi Iyaye. In their creative process, they evoke ancestral memory through personal archives and incorporate performance, found objects, organic materials, ecology, fiction, video, and installation.

They have received the Latinx Artist Fellowship from the US Latinx Art Forum (2022); the Rome Prize in Visual Art from the American Academy in Rome (2022); the United States Artist Fellowship (2018); The Art of Change from the Ford Foundation (2017); and the Global Arts Fund from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (2017 & 2020). Her first solo exhibition has been recently presented at Artists Space, New York (2022). Their work has been commissioned by institutions such as Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and Whitney Biennial, amongst others. In 2019, they co-founded Parceleras Afrocaribeñas, an organization run by Black womxn, where spaces for environmental and racial justice are created in the face of industrial developments that threaten their barrio of San Antón, in Carolina, Puerto Rico.