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ABOUT THE ARTISTGabriela Esquivel is a Costa Rican-American artist that creates art with sound and color. She creates projects combining her talents as a singer and visual artist. She has participated in several art fairs and exhibitions in Italy, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Miami, and more. Botello Gallery in Old San Juan Puerto Rico sells her work since 2005. |
EDUCATION
2021-2024 M.M. Music Business and Production, Florida International University, Miami, USA
2019-2021 B.M. Music Production and Commercial Music Composition,
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
2011- 2015 B.A. in Humanistic Studies, minor in Vocal Performance,
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
2005-2011 B.A. in Sculpture, minor in Film and Fashion Design, School of Fine Arts of
Puerto Rico
2000-2004 Studies in Business Administration and Music, University of Costa Rica
1999 Painting and Voice lessons, Migros Klubschule, Switzerland
1999 Goethe Institute, Germany
AWARDS AND CERTIFICATES
2025 Miami Beach Hispanic Heritage Month Award - Arts and Entertainment
2025 Miami Dade Department of Cultural Affairs Community Grant
2022 Official Costa Rican Cultural Ambassador - “Essential Costa Rica”
2021 Undergraduate Researcher of the Year – FAU College of Arts and Letters
2021 FAU Undergraduate Researcher of the Year Grant
2018-2019 CIP Grant – Broward County Cultural Division, Fort Lauderdale, USA
2020 CIP Grant – Broward County Cultural Division, Fort Lauderdale, USA
2019 Self-Published Author – Gema, the Curious Butterfly
2015 X Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
2015-2016 Art Basel, Miami, USA
2005 The Dean’s List, USA
INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2025 Live Painting at "Savor the Sounds", City of Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA
2024 Live Painting at Key Biscayne Farmers Market, Key Biscayne, Florida, USA
2024 "Open House Exhibition", Botello Art Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2024 "Sound and Color at Nuria Camino’s recital", FIU, Miami, Florida, USA
2024 "PROCOMER event", Chamber of Commerce, Miami, FL, USA
2023 "Costa Rica in Sound and Color at FIU CIBER", MMC Campus, Miami, FL
2022 "Los Colores de Miami Exhibition", Consulado General de México, Florida, USA
2022 "Los Colores de Miami Exhibition", Consulado General de Colombia, Florida, USA
2022 "Los Colores de Miami Exhibition", MIFA Gallery, Florida, USA
2022 "Sister Cities - Friendship Month Exhibition", Fort Lauderdale City Hall, USA
2022 "Inner Heavens", Graham Center Student Art Gallery, FIU, Miami, FL
2022 "Artist Reunion Show", Plunge Beach Resort, Laudedale by the Sea, FL
2022 "HOME", GalleryOne DoubleTree by Hilton, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2022 "Gema, the Curious Butterfly" at Action for Literacy Day, Joseph Carter Park, FL
2021 "Costa Rica in Sound and Color", Plunge Beach Resort, Lauderdale by the Sea, FL
2020 Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2020 "Gema, the Curious Butterfly", Butterfly Festival, Coconut Creek, Florida
2019 "Gema at Barnes and Noble", Book Store in Plantation, Florida, USA
2019 "Spectrum" Exhibition, Studio 18, Pembroke Pines, FL
2019 "Art Fort Lauderdale Art Fair", Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2019 "Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo", Fort Lauderdale, FL
2019 Live Painting at "Jazz in the Pines", Frank Art Gallery, Pembroke Pines, FL
2018 "Soul and Mysticism", Solo Show at Artserve, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2018 "Garden of Freedom Exhibition", 33rd St Wine Bar, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2018 Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2018 "Art at the Convention Center", Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo
2018 Art and Soul, Business for the Arts of Broward, Hilton, Fort Lauderdale
2018 Pop up Exhibition, The Frank Contemporaries, Pembroke Pines, Florida
2018 Art Fort Lauderdale Fair, Florida
2018 The Studio in the Living Room, W Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2018 Las Olas Art Fair, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2018 "Live Painting at Light Up the Galt", Fort Lauderdale, FL
2018 "Live painting at Jazz at the Pines", The Frank Contemporaries, Pembroke Pines, FL
2017 Galeria Rancho Santana, Tola/Rivas, Nicaragua
2017 "Imagining the Sublime", Village Design Art Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2017 Village Design Art Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2017 Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2016 ArtBox.Gallery, Art Basel, Miami, Florida
2016 Galeria Rancho Santana, Tola/Rivas, Nicaragua
2016 Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2015 Contemporary Art Projects, Art Basel, Miami, Florida
2015 Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
2014 Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2014 "From the Mystical to the Abstract", Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
2011 "Spiritual Cell Performance", National Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2009 "Thanatos and Narciso", Performance with Ballet Concierto of Puerto Rico
2004 "At the Bank", Lafise Bank, San José, Costa Rica 2003 "At the Bank", Lafise Bank, Costa Rica
MUSIC
2023 "GrammyU Mixtape, New Year It's Poppin, Spotify Playlist, Recording Academy Grammys -
Grammys on Spotify
2023 FIU National Anthem Singer - Women's Basketball Game, FIU vs FAU, Ocean Bank
Convocation Center, Miami, Florida, USA
2022 FIU National Anthem Singer - Graduation Ceremony, Ocean Bank Convocation Center,
Miami, Florida, USA
2022 "Voces del Periodismo Awards" - featured artist singing songs from Costa Rica and Ecuador,
FIU Wolfe University Center, BBC Campus, Miami, Florida, USA
2022 FIU National Anthem Singer - Men's Basketball Game, Ocean Bank Convocation Center,
Miami, Florida, USA
2022 FIU Miami Guitar Orchestra, featured artist singing songs from Costa Rica and Ecuador,
Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music and Performing Arts, Miami, FL, USA
2022 FIU National Anthem Singer - Graduation Ceremony, Ocean Bank Convocation Center,
Miami, Florida, USA
2022 "The Summit: cello composition ft. cellist Itzel Manon", Student Art Gallery, FIU Graham Center,
Miami, FL, USA
2022 FAU Composers Concert ft. cellist Dr. Jason Calloway, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2022 FIU Big Band Concert, Wertheim School of Music Theater, Miami, Florida
2021 Music Videos Drop, Plunge Beach Resort, Lauderdale by the Sea, FL
2020 Costa Rican composer's presentation, Composition studio of composer Kevin Wilt, Florida
2020 “The Summit”, online multimedia project with cellist Brent Charran, Florida
2019 Official drop of Gema: song of children’s book Gema, the Curious Butterfly. Available in
English and Spanish on all social media platforms.
2018 “Butterflies for Puerto Rico”, online international musical-artistic-social project,
Puerto Rico - Florida
MUSEUMS, MURALS, AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2018 “Ride Over the Rainbow”, street-mural, MASS District, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2018 “The Tarpon’s Dance”, Little Library Project at Hardy Park, City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2018 “Genii Loci”, Artist Assistant of 1.2 mile long “road tattoo”, street mural at Rosemary Av.
Palm Beach, Florida
2017 “Open Canvas Project”, Murals in Andrews Av. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2015 “La Campechada dedicated to Rafael Ríos Rey”, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, PR
2014 “La Campechada dedicated to Myrna Báez”, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, PR
2013 “La Campechada dedicated to Rafael Tufiño” , Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, PR
LITERATURE AND REVIEWS
SEPT, 2025 "An Inspired Chat with Gabriela Esquivel, Bold Journey Magazine, USA
JAN, 2023 "GrammyU Mixtape, New Year It's Poppin, Spotify Playlist, Recording Academy,
Grammys on Spotify
NOV, 2022 "Wonderful Fusion Between Visual Arts and Music", Doral Arts and Beyond, Radio Interview
at Doral Voice, Miami, Florida, USA
SEP, 2022 "Embajadores Marca País, los representantes de llevar el talento costarricense a nivel
mundial", Periódico La República, Costa Rica
AUG, 2022 FAU Alumni Spotlight, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Boca Raton, Florida
APR, 2022 Stories and Insights, "Meet Gabriela Esquivel", CanvasRebel Magazine, Miami, Florida
DEC 2021 “El Chinamo”, Costa Rica TV Show, Teletica Canal 7, San Jose, Costa Rica
NOV, 2021 Meet Gabriela Esquivel, Open Radio Costa Rica, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
NOV, 2018 "Meet Gabriela Esquivel in Fort Lauderdale", Voyage Miami Magazine, Miami, Florida
DEC, 2017 Midtown Miami Magazine, “The sublime state of painter Gabriela Esquivel”, Miami, Florida
SEPT, 2017 Go Riverwalk Magazine, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
DEC, 2015 Contemporary Art Projects USA Catalogue, Spectrum, Miami
NOV, 2015 “Artistas en Florencia”, Periódico Índice, Puerto Rico
NOV, 2015 “Arte, conciencia y alegría en la Campechada 2015, UPR-Dialogo, Universidad de Puerto Rico
NOV, 2015 “Reconocen su trabajo artístico”, El Nuevo Día, Flash y Cultura, Puerto Rico
OCT, 2015 Florence Biennale Catalogue, Italy
ENE, 2014 “Las Zonas Limítrofes y espirituales en la pintura de Gabriela Esquivel”,Puerto Rico Art News
SEP, 2013 Galenus Magazine, Puerto Rico
JUL, 2009 El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico
FEB, 2005 Imagen, San José Costa Rica
PERMANENT ART COLLECTIONS
New York Private Collection, USA
Fort Lauderdale Private Collection, USA
Costa Rican Private Collections, Costa Rica
New Jersey Private Collection, USA
California Private Collection, USA
Puerto Rican Private Collections, Puerto Rico
W Hotel Paintings Collection – Fort Lauderdale, USA
Puerto Rican Painting Collection” Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
Latin American Art Collection, Galenus Magazine, Puerto Rico
2021-2024 M.M. Music Business and Production, Florida International University, Miami, USA
2019-2021 B.M. Music Production and Commercial Music Composition,
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
2011- 2015 B.A. in Humanistic Studies, minor in Vocal Performance,
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
2005-2011 B.A. in Sculpture, minor in Film and Fashion Design, School of Fine Arts of
Puerto Rico
2000-2004 Studies in Business Administration and Music, University of Costa Rica
1999 Painting and Voice lessons, Migros Klubschule, Switzerland
1999 Goethe Institute, Germany
AWARDS AND CERTIFICATES
2025 Miami Beach Hispanic Heritage Month Award - Arts and Entertainment
2025 Miami Dade Department of Cultural Affairs Community Grant
2022 Official Costa Rican Cultural Ambassador - “Essential Costa Rica”
2021 Undergraduate Researcher of the Year – FAU College of Arts and Letters
2021 FAU Undergraduate Researcher of the Year Grant
2018-2019 CIP Grant – Broward County Cultural Division, Fort Lauderdale, USA
2020 CIP Grant – Broward County Cultural Division, Fort Lauderdale, USA
2019 Self-Published Author – Gema, the Curious Butterfly
2015 X Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
2015-2016 Art Basel, Miami, USA
2005 The Dean’s List, USA
INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2025 Live Painting at "Savor the Sounds", City of Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA
2024 Live Painting at Key Biscayne Farmers Market, Key Biscayne, Florida, USA
2024 "Open House Exhibition", Botello Art Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2024 "Sound and Color at Nuria Camino’s recital", FIU, Miami, Florida, USA
2024 "PROCOMER event", Chamber of Commerce, Miami, FL, USA
2023 "Costa Rica in Sound and Color at FIU CIBER", MMC Campus, Miami, FL
2022 "Los Colores de Miami Exhibition", Consulado General de México, Florida, USA
2022 "Los Colores de Miami Exhibition", Consulado General de Colombia, Florida, USA
2022 "Los Colores de Miami Exhibition", MIFA Gallery, Florida, USA
2022 "Sister Cities - Friendship Month Exhibition", Fort Lauderdale City Hall, USA
2022 "Inner Heavens", Graham Center Student Art Gallery, FIU, Miami, FL
2022 "Artist Reunion Show", Plunge Beach Resort, Laudedale by the Sea, FL
2022 "HOME", GalleryOne DoubleTree by Hilton, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2022 "Gema, the Curious Butterfly" at Action for Literacy Day, Joseph Carter Park, FL
2021 "Costa Rica in Sound and Color", Plunge Beach Resort, Lauderdale by the Sea, FL
2020 Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2020 "Gema, the Curious Butterfly", Butterfly Festival, Coconut Creek, Florida
2019 "Gema at Barnes and Noble", Book Store in Plantation, Florida, USA
2019 "Spectrum" Exhibition, Studio 18, Pembroke Pines, FL
2019 "Art Fort Lauderdale Art Fair", Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2019 "Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo", Fort Lauderdale, FL
2019 Live Painting at "Jazz in the Pines", Frank Art Gallery, Pembroke Pines, FL
2018 "Soul and Mysticism", Solo Show at Artserve, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2018 "Garden of Freedom Exhibition", 33rd St Wine Bar, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2018 Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2018 "Art at the Convention Center", Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo
2018 Art and Soul, Business for the Arts of Broward, Hilton, Fort Lauderdale
2018 Pop up Exhibition, The Frank Contemporaries, Pembroke Pines, Florida
2018 Art Fort Lauderdale Fair, Florida
2018 The Studio in the Living Room, W Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2018 Las Olas Art Fair, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2018 "Live Painting at Light Up the Galt", Fort Lauderdale, FL
2018 "Live painting at Jazz at the Pines", The Frank Contemporaries, Pembroke Pines, FL
2017 Galeria Rancho Santana, Tola/Rivas, Nicaragua
2017 "Imagining the Sublime", Village Design Art Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2017 Village Design Art Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2017 Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2016 ArtBox.Gallery, Art Basel, Miami, Florida
2016 Galeria Rancho Santana, Tola/Rivas, Nicaragua
2016 Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2015 Contemporary Art Projects, Art Basel, Miami, Florida
2015 Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
2014 Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2014 "From the Mystical to the Abstract", Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
2011 "Spiritual Cell Performance", National Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2009 "Thanatos and Narciso", Performance with Ballet Concierto of Puerto Rico
2004 "At the Bank", Lafise Bank, San José, Costa Rica 2003 "At the Bank", Lafise Bank, Costa Rica
MUSIC
2023 "GrammyU Mixtape, New Year It's Poppin, Spotify Playlist, Recording Academy Grammys -
Grammys on Spotify
2023 FIU National Anthem Singer - Women's Basketball Game, FIU vs FAU, Ocean Bank
Convocation Center, Miami, Florida, USA
2022 FIU National Anthem Singer - Graduation Ceremony, Ocean Bank Convocation Center,
Miami, Florida, USA
2022 "Voces del Periodismo Awards" - featured artist singing songs from Costa Rica and Ecuador,
FIU Wolfe University Center, BBC Campus, Miami, Florida, USA
2022 FIU National Anthem Singer - Men's Basketball Game, Ocean Bank Convocation Center,
Miami, Florida, USA
2022 FIU Miami Guitar Orchestra, featured artist singing songs from Costa Rica and Ecuador,
Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music and Performing Arts, Miami, FL, USA
2022 FIU National Anthem Singer - Graduation Ceremony, Ocean Bank Convocation Center,
Miami, Florida, USA
2022 "The Summit: cello composition ft. cellist Itzel Manon", Student Art Gallery, FIU Graham Center,
Miami, FL, USA
2022 FAU Composers Concert ft. cellist Dr. Jason Calloway, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2022 FIU Big Band Concert, Wertheim School of Music Theater, Miami, Florida
2021 Music Videos Drop, Plunge Beach Resort, Lauderdale by the Sea, FL
2020 Costa Rican composer's presentation, Composition studio of composer Kevin Wilt, Florida
2020 “The Summit”, online multimedia project with cellist Brent Charran, Florida
2019 Official drop of Gema: song of children’s book Gema, the Curious Butterfly. Available in
English and Spanish on all social media platforms.
2018 “Butterflies for Puerto Rico”, online international musical-artistic-social project,
Puerto Rico - Florida
MUSEUMS, MURALS, AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2018 “Ride Over the Rainbow”, street-mural, MASS District, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2018 “The Tarpon’s Dance”, Little Library Project at Hardy Park, City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2018 “Genii Loci”, Artist Assistant of 1.2 mile long “road tattoo”, street mural at Rosemary Av.
Palm Beach, Florida
2017 “Open Canvas Project”, Murals in Andrews Av. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2015 “La Campechada dedicated to Rafael Ríos Rey”, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, PR
2014 “La Campechada dedicated to Myrna Báez”, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, PR
2013 “La Campechada dedicated to Rafael Tufiño” , Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, PR
LITERATURE AND REVIEWS
SEPT, 2025 "An Inspired Chat with Gabriela Esquivel, Bold Journey Magazine, USA
JAN, 2023 "GrammyU Mixtape, New Year It's Poppin, Spotify Playlist, Recording Academy,
Grammys on Spotify
NOV, 2022 "Wonderful Fusion Between Visual Arts and Music", Doral Arts and Beyond, Radio Interview
at Doral Voice, Miami, Florida, USA
SEP, 2022 "Embajadores Marca País, los representantes de llevar el talento costarricense a nivel
mundial", Periódico La República, Costa Rica
AUG, 2022 FAU Alumni Spotlight, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Boca Raton, Florida
APR, 2022 Stories and Insights, "Meet Gabriela Esquivel", CanvasRebel Magazine, Miami, Florida
DEC 2021 “El Chinamo”, Costa Rica TV Show, Teletica Canal 7, San Jose, Costa Rica
NOV, 2021 Meet Gabriela Esquivel, Open Radio Costa Rica, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
NOV, 2018 "Meet Gabriela Esquivel in Fort Lauderdale", Voyage Miami Magazine, Miami, Florida
DEC, 2017 Midtown Miami Magazine, “The sublime state of painter Gabriela Esquivel”, Miami, Florida
SEPT, 2017 Go Riverwalk Magazine, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
DEC, 2015 Contemporary Art Projects USA Catalogue, Spectrum, Miami
NOV, 2015 “Artistas en Florencia”, Periódico Índice, Puerto Rico
NOV, 2015 “Arte, conciencia y alegría en la Campechada 2015, UPR-Dialogo, Universidad de Puerto Rico
NOV, 2015 “Reconocen su trabajo artístico”, El Nuevo Día, Flash y Cultura, Puerto Rico
OCT, 2015 Florence Biennale Catalogue, Italy
ENE, 2014 “Las Zonas Limítrofes y espirituales en la pintura de Gabriela Esquivel”,Puerto Rico Art News
SEP, 2013 Galenus Magazine, Puerto Rico
JUL, 2009 El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico
FEB, 2005 Imagen, San José Costa Rica
PERMANENT ART COLLECTIONS
New York Private Collection, USA
Fort Lauderdale Private Collection, USA
Costa Rican Private Collections, Costa Rica
New Jersey Private Collection, USA
California Private Collection, USA
Puerto Rican Private Collections, Puerto Rico
W Hotel Paintings Collection – Fort Lauderdale, USA
Puerto Rican Painting Collection” Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
Latin American Art Collection, Galenus Magazine, Puerto Rico