Bodegón Roto (Broken Still Life)

22"30’"
Graphite and mixed media on wood panel
2026

"Bodegón Roto (Broken Still Life) reinterprets the stereotyped Dominican paradise. The body opens as the spiny soursop is pierced by a knife, revealing the scars the Caribbean conceals beneath its beauty. The ornamental armatures, inspired by colonial architecture, sharpen into knives that threaten and cut through history. The moon binds the intimate and the universal, where every rupture carries an echo beyond the Caribbean. Dividing Goddesses series."

Pedro Troncoso (b.1996, Dominican Republic) is a New York–based artist whose work layers erased narratives into dreamlike spaces where blurred identities confront colonial impact. In the fragile space between ancestry and autonomy, his work asks: how much of our heritage are we willing to negotiate or rebuild? He earned his BFA in Illustration at Parsons School of Design after formative studies at Altos de Chavón, La Escuela de Diseño (DR), and holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art. His work has been shown at the 29th and 31st Dominican Biennials, NADA, Art Central Hong Kong, ComplexCon, and the AXA Art Prize, with additional exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, and Beijing. His practice has been profiled in Blanc Magazine, Whitewall, Artlyst, New American Paintings, among others.