4 I AM

50"x40’" Oil on Canvas 2024 "4 I am refers both to the multiplication of the self and to the hour when sleep refuses to arrive. Set within parasomnia, the body becomes both refuge and site of exposure, suspended among fragments of memory, desire, and distraction that extend the self. As wakefulness stretches on, a nearly no-signal television playing Courage the Cowardly Dog mirrors nocturnal fears, while the room shifts from a physical space into an imagined one shaped by anxiety and overthinking. Parasomnia series." Pedro Tronocoso (b. 1996, Dominican Republic) is a New York–based artist whose work layers erased narratives into dreamlike spaces where blurred identities confront colonial impact. In the fragile space between ancestry and autonomy, his work asks: how much of our heritage are we willing to negotiate or rebuild? He earned his BFA in Illustration at Parsons School of Design after formative studies at Altos de Chavón, La Escuela de Diseño (DR), and holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art. His work has been shown at the 29th and 31st Dominican Biennials, NADA, Art Central Hong Kong, ComplexCon, and the AXA Art Prize, with additional exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, and Beijing. His practice has been profiled in Blanc Magazine, Whitewall, Artlyst, New American Paintings, among others.