Gallery Staff

Nadia Estela, Gallery Coordinator
estelan@wpunj.edu

Nadia Liz Estela is Gallery Coordinator at William Paterson University. Estela completed her art education at Rutgers University, Parsons, and received her MFA in Studio Art from Montclair State University. She has exhibited at Montclair Art Museum (NJ), Luo Zhongli Art Museum (Chongqing, China), Koki Arts (Tokyo, Japan), Torpedo Art Center (VA), Project for Empty Space (NJ), Agora Gallery, 601Artspace, and American Medium (NY). She is the recipient of several awards and residencies including the New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship, Newark Creative Catalyst Award, Hayama Artist Residency, the AIR at Project for Empty Space, Chateau Orquevaux, The Vermont Studio Center, Millay Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation, and NYFA. In addition to her fine art practice, Estela is an educator. She was an artist in residence in 2015-2017 for the Newark Arts Integrated into Literature Grant (N.A.I.L) on behalf of the Montclair Art Museum where she promoted fine arts literacy using Visual Thinking Strategies. Her teaching experience includes institutions like the Montclair Art Museum, William Paterson University Galleries, and the Montclair State University, Department of Art and Design. Estela's work weaves abstraction and magical realism into a visual diasporic language that questions borders and memory.