Adál Maldonado
Adál Alberto Maldonado (November 1, 1948December 9, 2020), styled as ADÁL, was a photographer who lived and worked in New York City and Puerto Rico. Primarily a portrait photographer, his works focused on the concept of identity. He also worked on musical performances and installations.
Also recorded as Adal Alberto Maldonado · ADAL · Adál Alberto Maldonado · ADÁL
Adál Maldonado
- Born
- 1948 · Utuado.
- Died
- 2020 · San Juan.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer · painter · writer · artist
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Adál Maldonado. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q4678508 · wikipedia · Adál Maldonado
In this article
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1948
Adál Maldonado was born in 1948 at Utuado.
2020
Adál Maldonado died in 2020 at San Juan.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Utuado.
Birth place
San Juan.
Death place
Publications
Maldonado is associated with the Nuyorican movement. Maldonado was born in Utuado, Puerto Rico, on November 1, 1948. His family moved to Trenton, New Jersey, when he was 13, and then to the Bronx when he was 17. Among Maldonado's works is a mixed-media installation and website titled El Puerto Rican Embassy (1994), developed in collaboration with Pedro Pietri. (According to Acosta-Belén and Santiago, the concept is due to Eduardo Figueroa.) For the project, Maldonado and Pietri created a Puerto Rican passport and named ambassadors for Puerto Rico. In another work titled Coconauts in Space (2016–2020) he used NASA archives to re-imagine the 1969 Apollo moon landing with a Puerto Rican protagonist.
*
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Adál Maldonado, revision 1366434416 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 18 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Photography
11,392 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Achuthanand Tanjore RaviPhotographer
- ACME NewspicturesPhotographer
- Ad KoningsPhotographer
- Ada Wills GarsidePhotographer
- Adam BouskaPhotographer
- Adam BroombergPhotographer
- Adam DulębaPhotographer
- Adam FussPhotographer
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Adál Maldonado?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.