BIO
Allyssa Dezaldivar (b. 1999, Redlands, CA) lives and works in New York City. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Arkansas School of Art. Her work has been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2024), Crystal Bridges Museum (2024), and Midnight Gallery (2024), amongst others.
Allyssa Dezaldivar (b. 1999, Redlands, CA) lives and works in New York City. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Arkansas School of Art. Her work has been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2024), Crystal Bridges Museum (2024), and Midnight Gallery (2024), amongst others.
STATEMENT
Allyssa Dezaldivar, or Harbour, is New York City based ceramic artist whose practice examines the tension between presence and absence. Informed from her Pacific Islander heritage and art history, she mobilizes pattern, organics forms, and symbols to develop a contemporary visual language centered on tradition, world building, and transiency.
Allyssa Dezaldivar, or Harbour, is New York City based ceramic artist whose practice examines the tension between presence and absence. Informed from her Pacific Islander heritage and art history, she mobilizes pattern, organics forms, and symbols to develop a contemporary visual language centered on tradition, world building, and transiency.
Working across figural ceramics and immersive performance installations, Harbour synthesizes fragments of her dreams with her everyday surroundings to address the relationship between time and memory. Through this approach, her work positions herself as both the participant and the witness, bridging personal conflict with the collective experience of the city.
inquiries: dezaldivaral@gmail.com
Exhibitions
2025 Spring Fever, Hill Avenue, Fayetteville, AR
2024 Art Work: Artist Working at The Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
2024 Lush: A Group Exhibition, Midnight Gallery, Bentonville, AR
2024 Whims: A Solo Ceramic Exhibition, pH Gallery, West Fork, AR
2024 Ode: BFA Capstone Exhibition, Studio and Design Center, Fayetteville, AR
2024 Departure, Hill Avenue, Fayetteville, AR
2023 Valued: An Assembly Biennial hosted by Interform Atelier, Perridon Supply
2023 Art Lodge: Ammplify Festival, Mount Sequoyah, Fayetteville, AR
2023 Exposed: Lamp Show 2.0, 21C Museum Hotel, Bentonville, AR
2023 Decaying Vessels: A Solo Ceramics Show, pH Gallery, West Fork, AR
2023 One Foot in Front of The Other: UARK NCECA Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH
2022 Advanced Ceramic Exhibition, School of Art and Design Center, AR
2022 Rock-A-Thon: Local Artists Market, The Colored Door, Conway, AR
2022 Spoiled: Advanced Ceramics Exhibition, The Creamery, Rogers, AR
2021 Recollective Collective: A Studio Exhibition, Fayetteville, AR
2021 Ceramic Studio Exhibition, School of Art and Design Center, Fayetteville, AR
2021 Holcomb House: Music in the Trees, Holcomb House, Springdale, AR
2021 Quicktown Night Market, Crimson and Clover Grounds, Fayetteville, AR
2020 Weekend at Bernie’s, Oakland House, Fayetteville, AR
2019 Printmaking Exhibition, NWACC, Bentonville, AR
2019 Ceramic Studio Exhibition, NWACC, Bentonville, AR
Lectures and Demos
2024 Studio Demo: Ceramics with Allyssa DeZaldivar, Crystal Bridges Museum
2023 Decaying Vessels: Artist Talk, pH Gallery, West Fork, AR
2021 Through the Lens: A Panel of Women Photographers Panelist, NWACC
Awards and Honors
2024 Windgate Accelerator Grant Alternate Runner-Up, UofA, Fayetteville
2023 AMMPLIFY NWA Mentee, Mount Sequoyah Center, Fayetteville, AR
2023 UG Student Support Art Scholarship, School of Art, Fayetteville, AR
2023 Nina J. Erickson Memorial Art Scholarship, Fayetteville, AR
2023 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, UofA, Rome, Italy