EDUCATION

2000 Master of Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude (Studio Art), The City College of the City University of New York, NYC  

HONORS AND AWARDS
Franklin Furnace Fund For Performance Art, NYC
2004 Studio Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Puffin Foundation Grant, NJ
Longwood Arts Project Cyber Residency, Longwood Arts Project/The Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY
Lambent Fellowship in the Arts, Tides Foundation, NYC

2003 Artist Alliance Inc.’s Lower East Side Rotating Studio Residency Program
Artists Alliance INC, NYC

2002 Independent Project Grants Program, Artists Space, NYC
Artist in Residence Fellowship, The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2001-2002 The National Studio Program, P.S.1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY
International Cultural Collaborations Project, Snug Harbor, Trace Foundation and Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Art Center, NYC
Special Editions Fellowship, The Lower East Side Printshop, NYC
Artist in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

1998-2000 Future Faculty Fellowship, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

1997 Artists-in-Residence Workspace Program, Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Arts Center, NYC
Rita Margrath Scholarship, Potters for Peace, Managua, Nicaragua
Albert P. D’Andrea Award for Excellence in Art & Scholarship, The City College of the City University of New York, NYC

1995 Connors Award, The City College of the City University of New York, NYC

SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES

2004 The Passerby Museum, Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City
Rehearsed, Hostos Community College, Longwood Art Project/The Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY

2001 Cavum Gloriosum, Dixon Place, NYC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
2005 Madrid Abierto, Madrid, Spain

2004 Good Enough to Eat, performance presented at Rita McBride’s Arena at Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Re:source [performances] , Art In General, NYC
Jamaica Flux , Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
Cabaret del Barrio Survival of the Fittest , Heckster Theatre, Museo del Barrio, NYC
No Lo Llames Performance/Don’t Call It Performance , Museo del Barrio, NYC and Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
CultureFest , (Amigo Express, an intervention presented at LMCC’s booth), NYC
Republican Like Me , Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, NY
S.O.S (Straight Off the Street): Moment (in collaboration with Mel Chin), Longwood Art Gallery/Project Room, Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY
The Peekskill Project , Peekskill, NY
A.S.A.P. , Daimler Chrysler Building, Mexico City
Freedom Salon , Deitch Projects, NYC (in collaboration with Mel Chin)
The Passerby Museum , Museo de Ciencias y Arte (MUCA/Roma), Mexico City
EA50 , Here Arts Center, NY
Super Salon , Samson Projects, Boston, MA


e-Bay-Buy or Sell or Buy , Pace Digital Galley, Pace University, NYC

2003 Immigration and Expectations, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Insert, Cuchifritos, NYC
In Practice , The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Recuento de mis 15 , Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
CultureFest , (Not For Sale, an intervention presented at LMCC’s booth), NYC
The Caribbean Abroad, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Recession 2003, $99 Show , Cynthia Broan Gallery, NYC
Orden Del Día , Museo de Arte Moderno, Dominican Republic
White Box Annual Benefit Auction, White Box Gallery, NYC
Trienal del Tile Cerámico , Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Press , Southwest School of Arts and Crafts,” San Antonio, Texas

One Fine Day , Block Gallery, Sydney, Australia   The S-Files , Museo del Barrio, NYC
Looking In, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC
Live from Downtown/Live Performance , Downtown Community Television (DCTV), NYC
  Hot Festival , Dixon Place, NYC
The Love a Commuter Project 2002 , 149th Street and Grand Concourse subway station, Bronx, NY
Cultural Collaborations: Observations in Time and Space , Henry Street Settlent/Abrons Art Center, NYC

2001 Peppermint, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Mini Prints Portfolio , Lower East Side Printshop, NYC
IV Caribbean Biennial , Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Días Hábiles , Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Spunky , Exit Art, NYC
AIM 21 , The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY 
Crossing the Line , The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Lecture Lounge Vol. I and II , P.S1/The Clocktower Gallery, NYC
P.S.1/Clocktower National/International Studio Program Exhibition , P.S.1/The Clocktower Gallery, NYC  Recuerdos de Mis 15 , P.S.1/The Clocktower Gallery, NYC
The Land Columbus Loved Best , Dixon Place, NYC
The Love a Commuter Project 1999, Times Square Subway Station, NYC
 
2000 Super Merengue, Dixon Place, NYC
  Donors’ Performance Night , Dixon Place, NYC
 
B.U.M.F. Expo , Jersey City Art Tour 2000, Jersey City, NJ
Avant-Garde-Arama-Thon , P.S.122 Performance Space, NYC
1999 The Y2K Solutions, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland and Mason Gross School of the Arts Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

VIDEO SCREENINGS
2003 Espacios a la Experimentación II, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, Costa Rica
Video-Performance , Remote Lounge, New York, NY

2002 PerfoPuerto/Festival Lationoamericano de Arte de Performance, Valparaiso, Chile

2001 AccessZone 02, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

ARTIST PRESENTATIONS
2004 Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
La Esmeralda, Mexico City
Here Arts Center, NYC
Educational Alliance, NYC
Pace University, NYC
Sculpture Center, NYC
Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

2003 Rutgers University, Newark NJ
Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ

2002 Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont

2001 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Instituto de Arte y Cultura (ICA), Santiago, Dominican Republic
Museo de Arte Moderno, Dominican Republic
Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago, Santiago, Dominican Republic

SELECTED PUBLISHED ARTICLES
“Code Red,” Tart, Canada, (February, 2004), 7.
“Fefita al Oleo,” Listín Diario, Dominican Republic (September, 2000).
“A Fuetazo Limpio,” El Listín Diario, Dominican Republic (July 25, 2000), “El Cibao” 5.
“San Expedito se Muda a Manhattan,” El Listín Diario, Dominican Republic (June 8, 2000), “ El Cibao” 6.
“Open Wounds,” Ceramics Technical, Australia, no. 9 (November 1999): 45-47.
“Wedging Politics: Traveling the Nicaraguan Pottery Road, The Studio Potter, USA Vol. 27, no. 2 (June 1999): 94-97.
“Post-Sandino, Pre-Columbian Pottery,” Ceramics Technical, Australia, no.8 (May 1999) 41-45.
“The Matriarchal Hand,” Contact, Canada, no. 113 (Summer 1998) 32-34.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mayer, Mónica, “El Museo Peatonal,” Visual Arts Section, El Universal, Mexico City, Mexico (September 10, 2004)
Camil, Pia, “El Museo Peatonal,” Chilango. Mexico City, Mexico, (October, 2004)
Pacho, “Museo Peatonal,” Ruidos de la Calle in the Culture Section, La Reforma, Mexico City, Mexico (August 27, 2004)
López, Pancho. “Notas desde El Museo Peatonal,” La Crónica, Mexico City, Mexico  (September 5, 2004)
Leñero, Isabel. “Artes Visuales—MUCA Roma,” Proceso, Mexico City, Mexico (August 26, 2004)
Ceballos, Miguel Angel. “Museo Peatonal,” Culture Section, El Universal, Mexico (August 20, 2004)
Núñez, Erika, “Crean museo de peatones,” Culture Section, El Milenio, Mexico City, Mexico (August 25, 2004)
Blanco, Sergio R. “Toman ‘arte’ de la calle,” Culture Section, La Reforma, Mexico City, Mexico (August 25, 2004)
Mandell, Meredith, “ Artist Cooks Up Hot Performance,” The Bronx Beat (February 9, 2004)
Vega, María, “ Las Travesuras Artísticas de Dumit Estévez,” El Diario (February 13, 2004)
Cotter, Holand, “Art in Review,” The New York Times (February 27, 2004)
Gennocchio, Benjamin, “Images of Tropical Lands, Issues of Caribbean Identities,” The New York Times (December 21, 2003)
Martínez, Arturo, “Caribbean artists show their visions of America,”
The Star Ledger (November 30, 2003)
Walter, Robinson, Artnet (January 1, 2003)
Amado, María del Carmen, “Nueva Bienal en el Museo de El Barrio,” Hoy, (October 29, 2002)
Vega, María “Abre Bienal del Museo del Barrio,” El Diario (October 24, 2002)
The S- Files , El Museo del Barrio, NYC (October 2002) [Catalogue]
“Latin American Biennial In New York,” Artnet News, (October 10, 2002)
“El Museo Peatonal Reabre en Enero,” El Caribe, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (December 12, 2002)
Baptísta, Greyza, “Bienal de Arte Joven en el Museo del Barrio,” Hoy,
NYC (November 1, 2002)
Mitra , Kalita S. “With Touch of Color, Artists Help Revive Downtown Block,” Newsday, NYC, (October 9, 2002)
Laster, Paul “bkyn 2.0, An Online Journal of the Arts,” wwww.bkyn.com
P.S.1/MoMA National and International Studio Program, NYC (Summer, 2002) [Catalogue]
Available in Large Print, The Lower East Side Printshop, NYC (June, 2002) [Catalogue]
Zayas, Antonio, “The 4 th Caribbean Bienial in Santo Domingo,” Artnexus no.44/volume 2
Martínez, Labares, Vivian “Viaje al centro de La Quisqueya: festival de Santo Domingo,” Conjunto: Revista de Teatro Latinoamericano # 123, Habana, Cuba (November 2001)
Decena, Noris, “Arte por Doquier,” El Listín Diario, Dominican Republic (November 17, 2001)
“El Museo del Hombre Exhíbe Días Hábiles,” El Listín Diario, Dominican Republic (September 14, 2001), “La Vida Section” 4.
AIM 21 , The Bronx Museum of the Arts,” Bronx, NY (July 2001) [Catalogue].
Medína, Grisbel, “La Fundación Guaguarey Busca Unidad de los Artesanos del Higüerito,” El Listín Diario, Dominican Republic (August 28, 2000), “ El Cibao” 10.
Medína, Grisbel, “Dumit Estévez,” El Listín Diario, Dominican Republic (August 24, 2000), “El Cibao” 5.