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“La Voz del Anonimato/The Voice of Anonymity (Exhibition Review)”
The North American Congress on Latin America Report
2025
The North American Congress on Latin America Report
2025
“Layqa”
State of the Arts NJ by PBS
2023
To celebrate the opening of a new terminal, Newark Airport teamed up with the Public Art Fund and the Port Authority on one of the largest public arts projects since the days of Roosevelt. Among the new works is a colossal mural from Newark-based Indigenous Ecuadorian artist Layqa Nuna Yawar.
State of the Arts
Discover creative personalities and productions in and around New Jersey. Recognized as one of the outstanding arts programs in the country, this award-winning program features stories that range from in-depth profiles of world-renowned artists to visits with emerging dancers and musicians.
State of the Arts NJ by PBS
2023
To celebrate the opening of a new terminal, Newark Airport teamed up with the Public Art Fund and the Port Authority on one of the largest public arts projects since the days of Roosevelt. Among the new works is a colossal mural from Newark-based Indigenous Ecuadorian artist Layqa Nuna Yawar.
State of the Arts
Discover creative personalities and productions in and around New Jersey. Recognized as one of the outstanding arts programs in the country, this award-winning program features stories that range from in-depth profiles of world-renowned artists to visits with emerging dancers and musicians.
“Art Tells New Jersey Stories at Newark’s New Terminal A”
The New York Times
2022
The New York Times
2022
“Artists Make New York: Layqa Nuna Yawar”
MoMA PS1
2022
New Yorkers know: being NOT from NY is sometimes deeply NY. We met Layqa Nuna Yawar, whose new collaborative mural After the Fire is now on view on MoMA PS1’s exterior walls, in New Jersey with a perfect view of the NYC skyline, to talk about what it means to work from the outside:
“Being on the periphery, being on the outside…I think it’s a blessing, actually. It’s another circle to think about my indigeneity not being present, growing up under colonialism…I think that’s why I enjoy New Jersey a lot. Because it’s a representation of that…Art doesn’t happen in the center. It happens in the peripheries.”
Artists Make New York, no matter where they start from.
MoMA PS1
2022
New Yorkers know: being NOT from NY is sometimes deeply NY. We met Layqa Nuna Yawar, whose new collaborative mural After the Fire is now on view on MoMA PS1’s exterior walls, in New Jersey with a perfect view of the NYC skyline, to talk about what it means to work from the outside:
“Being on the periphery, being on the outside…I think it’s a blessing, actually. It’s another circle to think about my indigeneity not being present, growing up under colonialism…I think that’s why I enjoy New Jersey a lot. Because it’s a representation of that…Art doesn’t happen in the center. It happens in the peripheries.”
Artists Make New York, no matter where they start from.
“Studio Snapshot: Layqa Nuna Yawar”
The Newark Museum
2021
Artist Layqa Nuna Yawar discusses his work, how being an immigrant from Ecuador informs his practice, and why he sees Newark as the best place to create art.
The Newark Museum
2021
Artist Layqa Nuna Yawar discusses his work, how being an immigrant from Ecuador informs his practice, and why he sees Newark as the best place to create art.
“Newark Artists, Thriving Amid Crisis and Catharsis”
The New York Times
2020
The New York Times
2020
“Oral history interview with Layqa Nuna Yawar”
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
2020
An interview with Layqa Nuna Yawar conducted 2020 August 18, by Fernanda Espinosa, for the Archives of American Art's Art Pandemic Oral History Project at Yawar's home in Newark, New Jersey.
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
2020
An interview with Layqa Nuna Yawar conducted 2020 August 18, by Fernanda Espinosa, for the Archives of American Art's Art Pandemic Oral History Project at Yawar's home in Newark, New Jersey.
“Refugees and Migrants Tell Their Own Stories Through Photographs”
The New York Times
2018
The New York Times
2018
“Newark artist LNY creates murals around the world and at home”
The Star Ledger
2014
The Star Ledger
2014