Jonathan Carela is a Dominican interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. His work is informed by personal and shared experiences in the quotidian Dominican landscapes, both urban and rural, mimicking aspects of these environments.

His artistic practice serves as a ground for self-discovery through questioning human behavior and social structures within the Caribbean. He reimagines environments and social interactions anchored in a discursive exploration of contemporary socio-economical, racial, and identity issues.

Exploring the inherent discomfort of these subject matters, he tears them down in search of resistance and freedom through thought-provoking representations of reappropriated spaces for collective joy and celebration.

Carela’s work has been exhibited across the Dominican Republic, New York and Miami; his work was also recently shown at (RCAH) Michigan State University’s “Unbound” exhibition created by The Diaspora Solidarities Lab.