Layqa Nuna Yawar (b. 1984, Cuenca, Ecuador) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in unceded Lenni-Lenape land, current day Newark, NJ. His work explores migration, decolonization, public space, and reclaiming histories. His name reflects Kichwa-Kañari heritage reclamation. Known for large-scale public art transforming architecture into platforms for marginalized histories.

In 2023, he completed a 350-foot mural at Newark Liberty Airport Terminal A, centering migrant labor and everyday workers, reframing transit spaces as memory. Commissioned by MoMA PS1, Public Art Fund, UN WFP, and Monument Lab. He received the Moving Walls Fellowship, Newark Museum Artistic Impact Award, and Visual Arts Center Art Change Maker Award.
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Home in Newark is shaped through ritual, care, and aesthetic practice. It emerges through domestic objects, personal altars, decorated rooms, and shared spaces where memory and identity are lived and renewed. Home decor and interior goods stores extend this practice, offering materials that help construct environments of refuge and belonging. Art, studios, community spaces, and informal gathering sites also function as extensions of home-making, where cultural expression, collaboration, and care are continuously produced.

Candles, textiles, furniture accents, and decorative objects circulate as tools of atmosphere and meaning. They reflect how households and shared environments alike build spaces of comfort, spirituality, and cultural continuity, particularly within Black and Brown domestic traditions.

*This piece is a detail of a larger series of murals titled "Histerical Realism: Abya Yala", permanently on view at the Newark Public Library's NJ Hispanic Research & Information Center.

• Andy Furniture (aka Furniture King)
  83 Market St.

• Equal Space ES89 Sharespace & Incubator
  89 Market St.
  equalspace.co

• Index Art Center
  89 Market St.

• Newark Museum Shop
  49 Washington St.
  shopnewarkmuseumart.org

• Tansy
  33 Washington St.
  shoptansy.com