Devin Osorio (b. 1993) is a first-generation Dominican American artist from Washington Heights whose multidisciplinary practice draws from Dominican cultural traditions, Afro-diasporic spiritual systems, and textile processes to construct shrine-like paintings and installations. Working across painting, woven palm, hand embroidery, and ceramics. Osorio creates layered environments that function as spaces for memory, devotion, and transformation.

Their work begins through acts of return. Drawing from personal memory, neighborhood histories, and inherited cultural knowledge, Osorio revisits moments connected to shame, survival, tenderness, and self-construction. Plants, animals, glyphs, altar structures, and repeated symbolic motifs become tools for reimagining the self beyond the limitations imposed by gender, migration, religion, and diaspora.

Washington Heights operates throughout the work as both geographic site and psychological landscape. Osorio approaches painting as a method of excavation—collaging together devotional imagery, vernacular symbols, and tactile materials to examine how identity becomes embedded within the body, the home, and the built environment. Embroidered surfaces, woven elements, and sculptural interventions extend beyond the canvas, transforming paintings into physical spaces of offering and reflection.

Influenced by traditions of muralism, assemblage, and narrative figuration, Osorio’s practice exists in conversation with artists such as Pepón Osorio, Faith Ringgold, Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera. Like these artists, they use symbolism and storytelling to position personal experience within larger conversations surrounding Blackness, spirituality, labor, migration, and cultural inheritance across the Americas.