MoMA PS1, Queens, New York
2024 - 2025
After the Fire is a participatory mural project by artists Nanibah Chacon, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and Layqa Nuna Yawar. Initiated in 2020, the collaborative, process-based approach to mural-making began in a series of workshops with local Queens community groups: Transform America, Make the Road, and members of the Shinnecock, Unkechaug, and Matinecock Nations.
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Brownsville, Brooklyn
2023 - 2024
A collaborative mural project commissioned by The New York Foundling for the community of Vital Brookdale in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
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18’h x 350’ w
2021-22
Commissioned by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and Munich Airport NJ, in partnership with Public Art Fund
Between the Future Past celebrates the abundant diversity of Newark, New Jersey, and the New York metropolitan area. Layqa Nuna Yawar has reimagined the format of a historical mural to reflect an ongoing cycle of time that embraces past, present, and future. Drawing on his indigenous heritage and Kichwa language, he sees the mural as “a looped narrative that can be read from right to left and left to right.”
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MoMA PS1, Queens, New York
2021 - 2022
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Newark, New Jersey
2019
A collaborative mural by A Womb of Violet Collective Kelley Prevard and Layqa Nuna Yawar for Four Corners Public Art.
This collaborative mural is located on Halsey Street in Newark’s historic downtown and features two key figures, Gladys Barker Grauer and Breya Knight, and imagery that celebrates their significant contributions to the Newark arts and poetry community, using visual language to provide a sense of intergenerational and communal connection as a unifying force and source of power and healing.
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Riobamba, Ecuador
2021
Futurologiá Puruhá is a new mural for the Festival NUMU in Riobamba, the heart of Ecuador and the Andes. Located at the Polytechnic School of Chimborazo (Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo) ESPOCH Library Building.
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Philadelphia, PA.
2019
“Migrant Imaginary” is a project made by Layqa Nuna Yawar and artist Ricardo Cabret for the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. It consisted of educational workshops that culminated in the design of a mural based on the dreams and visions of immigrant youth for the city.
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14 Jersey Ave. New Brunswick, NJ
2018
A mural made for the Esperanza Neighborhood Project and ColabArts in New Brunswick, NJ. Based on visits and design workshops with the migrant community of the city, this mural reflects on the ties uniting families, the past, the future, diasporic cultures, and celebrates the resilience found during these journeys.
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Newark, New Jersey
2015
a mural for the City of Newark and Mayor Ras Baraka’s Citywide Mural Project at 258 Jelliff Ave.
"I tell you now that the question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the Dream, is the question of my life, and the pursuit of this question, I have found, ultimately answers itself." writes Ta-Nehisi Coates to his son Samori in "Between the World and Me" this mural was inspired by his memoir and message.
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Zamora, Ecuador
2017
"Tsunky Nua" is a mural made for the Indomita Zamora festival, located at the Defensoria del Pueblo building in the city of Zamora, Ecuador. Three Shuar girls from the El Kiim community look and smile at the viewer, the three pose in front of a house and behind barbed wire - faces, river, mountain, jungle, rain.
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September 10th 2025 through February 28th, 2026
Project for Empty Space at 800 Broad St, Newark, NJ.
La voz del Anonimato (The Voice of Anonymity) was the result of a two-year residency and presented artwork centering the voices of contemporary Andean diaspora members from the tri-state area. With this body of work, Layqa was focused on historical invisibility, embodied in his study of unidentified colonial master painters of the Andes, and contemporary invisibility, experienced by immigrant people the world over, particularly those living in the USA during the then-current rise of neo-fascism.
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Acylic paint on fabric, mounted on aluminum
Sarah Roberts Elementary School, Boston, Massachusetts
2025
Sarah Roberts Elementary School, Boston, Massachusetts
2025
A site-specific mural for Arts in Boston and the Board of Education of the city of Boston, installed at Sarah Roberts Elementary School.
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Cochineal, potash alum, citric acid, and gold leaf on wood
Stockton University Gallery, Gallloway, NJ
8 x 11 ft
2024
Stockton University Gallery, Gallloway, NJ
8 x 11 ft
2024
Indigenous Approaches, Sustainable Futures
September 6 - November 10, 2024
Stockton University Gallery, Galloway, NJ
Indigenous Approaches, Sustainable Futures features an onsite installation specially commissioned by Layqa Nuna Yawar
September 6 - November 10, 2024
Stockton University Gallery, Galloway, NJ
Indigenous Approaches, Sustainable Futures features an onsite installation specially commissioned by Layqa Nuna Yawar
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Acrylic on Canvas
8 x 48 ft
2023 - 2025
8 x 48 ft
2023 - 2025
A site-specific mural for Make the Road NY’s headquarters in Corona, Queens. Made in collaboration with Raul Ayala.
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No Lugar Gallery’s Open Studio Residency Program
Sep 13 to Oct 13 2024
Quito, Ecuador
This body of work was exhibited as the closing for a residency program in Quito, Ecuador, and curated by Ruben Diaz. The pieces center on an inquiry into the ramifications of migration for those who leave, those who stay, and those who return.
Sep 13 to Oct 13 2024
Quito, Ecuador
This body of work was exhibited as the closing for a residency program in Quito, Ecuador, and curated by Ruben Diaz. The pieces center on an inquiry into the ramifications of migration for those who leave, those who stay, and those who return.
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A mural collaboration with Jess x Snow. Commissioned and installed for a private collection in New York City.
Acrylic paint on wall
Ford Foundation HQ, New York, NY.
2019
Ford Foundation HQ, New York, NY.
2019
For many migrants, seeds from their homelands are brought to the U. S. by their mothers and grandmothers. Each seed is a time capsule that can be planted in its new home. In these two collaborative murals, migrant artists Jess X. Snow and Layqa Nuna Yawar trace their ancestral roots to the Incan ruins and Andean active volcanoes of Ecuador, and to the fog-covered mountains and rice terraces of southeastern China.
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Acrylic paint and graphite on wall.
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
2021
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
2021
A mural painted at the Morris Museum for “Urban Art New Jersey: On and Off the Streets”.
This is the US golden dollar coin, minted in 2000 and designed by artist Gienna Goodcare after the model Randy L Teton. It depicts a Sacagawea woman and her son. This coin is also widely used in Ecuador due to the dollarization that happened the same year it was minted.
This is the US golden dollar coin, minted in 2000 and designed by artist Gienna Goodcare after the model Randy L Teton. It depicts a Sacagawea woman and her son. This coin is also widely used in Ecuador due to the dollarization that happened the same year it was minted.
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Photography provided by the Newark Museum.
Newark Museum, Newark
9 x 20 x 10 approximately
2014
9 x 20 x 10 approximately
2014
A collaborative site-specific mural and installation created by Mata Ruda, NDA, and Layqa Nuna Yawar for the New Jersey Arts Annual: "Ready or Not" at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey.
"The Native Sun" relates natural cycles like the phases of the moon, sunrise, and sunsets, and geographic maps to the historical and social topography that has shaped the city of Newark from its inception to its current state. Images from its past and present are woven into representations of
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Duelo / Lucha
Acylic paint, assorted fabric, tread, and rope.
Matienschön, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dimensions Variable
2017
Matienschön, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dimensions Variable
2017
This installation is the result of a residency at Matienschön, the visual arts incubator of Club Cultural Matienzo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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