MARÍA SEMIDEY


Semi is a Puerto Rican graphic designer working as a Coordinator and Lead Artist at Bad Dog Print; a Researcher and Designer for the NYC Council District 35; and a Freelance Designer. She is currently based in Brooklyn, NY and San Juan, PR.



EXPERIENCE

Researcher and Designer, NYC Council
District 35 Participatory Budgeting Team
Coordinator & Lead Artist, Bad Dog Print
Freelance Graphic Designer
Print Lab Technician, Pratt Institute 
Book Designer, Lady Lee Andrews 
Graphic Design Intern, Frank 151
Educator, Estudio de Arte Berta Melendez[24 - 25]

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EDUCATION

B.F.A Communications Design, with minors in
The Book and Photography, Pratt Institute, BK, NY
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EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS

Pratt Student Design Marketplace
KB x Doch Magazine [Group], KB Gallery
Pratt’s Holiday Print Sale
Bad Dog’s Interdisciplinary Print Sale
Shadows & Silhouettes [Group] Steuben Gallery
Horsemarket [Group], Steuben Gallery
Brooklyn Art Book Fair
Printed Matter East Village Zine Fair
Pratt Student Design Marketplace
Devocion Violenta [Solo], Ojo de Tigre[25]
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EMAIL



01  ÌNDICE TAINO BORICUA: DE LAS TIERRAS DEL VALIENTE SEÑOR


Curated dictionary with Taíno-Puerto Rican words defined by Coll y Coste, and selected from José Marcano’s “Vocabulario Indo-Antillano.”

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Nov 2024
Book


02  EN LA PIEL


A 5-color RISO fold-out poster of the Taíno deity, Atabeyra, exploring the relationship betweeen cultural pride and tattooing.

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Mar 2025
Poster


03  PETRO


A visual report on petroglyphs from El Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Caguana, in Utuado, PR.

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Feb 2025
Book


04  LONGING FOR CONNECTION


A preliminary thesis book that explores the sequencing, narrative, and visual language of what will eventually become my Final Thesis Book. 

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Dec 2024
Book


05  DULCE Y SALADO


A riso print of my photograph “Dulce y salado” using Yellow, Federal Blue, Burgundy Red, and Black.

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Nov 2024
Print


06  BIOMIMETISMO: LA CUERPA


An experimental photobook that offers a tactile and visual experience to demonstrate how the figure immitates the natural.

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Apr 2024
Photobook


07  PETROGLYPH POSTCARD


What appears to be a simple postcard, carries an extensive analysis on the practive rock carving with two self-carved petrgolpyhs.

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Oct 2024
Print


08  BOSIBA


A totally fictional, non-diruptive, speculative alphabet and typeface based on Taíno petroglyphs.

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Dec 2024
Typeface


09  BOSIBA PROPOSAL


A proposal research poster for what is now Bosiba, that argues against Dr. Yarey Meléndez‘ “Naguaké Taíno Pictographic Alphabet” (2005).

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Oct 2024
Print


10  DOCUMENTACIÓN DE MEMORIAS


A collection of writen reflections that arise from looking at photographs from my grandmothers’ houses today and archival family pictures.

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Dec 2024
Photobook



11  EXHIBITIONS: VISUAL LANGUAGE


A variety of branding and promotion designed for different group shows.

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Oct 2024
Print


12  AL FINAL


An unbound printmade photobook made with unconventional practices such as metal type setting, polymer plate printing, and laser cutting.

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Mar 2024
Artist Book


13  THE EXPERIENCE OF SELF


An extensive book that looks at identity as an experience rathen than an idea.

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Dec 2023
Book


14  LA CALLE HABLA


An accordion-style photobook with a selection of iPhone photography capturing political singage and street art in Puerto Rico.

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Sep 2024
Artist Book


15  LANGUAGE


An International Typographic Style poster exploring a potential thesis topic: Language.

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Oct 2024
Print


16  SURVEILANCE FILM STRIP


A 168-feet-long curatiorial artist book that gathers stills from found surveilance footage and presents them as a film strip.

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Nov 2024
Artist Book


17  UNTITLED


An oversized book made of hand-dyed rice paper sheets.

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Dec 2023
Artist Book