Angurria paints tallest mural in the United States, celebrating Dominican heritage in the Bronx

New York.- Dominican visual artist Néstor Omar García, known as Angurria, has completed a mural more than 260 feet high on the facade of a 29-story public housing tower in New York’s South Bronx, making it the tallest mural in the United States.

Titled “A SEA of People / From Every Shore,” the work covers the Morrisania Air Rights Houses complex at 158th Street and Park Avenue. It surpasses the previous U.S. record held by German artist MadC, whose mural on the Excel Miami tower reaches 245 feet.

The mural features a woman wearing hair rollers, an image inspired by women who visited Angurria’s mother’s beauty salon in Los Alcarrizos, Dominican Republic. The figure is a recurring element in the artist’s work and connects the mural with his acclaimed Doña Patria series, which celebrates Dominican women.

“My mother used to style the hair of the women in the neighborhood with rollers. Today, one of them is looking down on the Bronx from 29 stories high. This isn’t mine: it belongs to every Dominican and Latino family that has built this city,” Angurria said.

With more than 25 years of experience as an art director, illustrator and muralist, Angurria has built an international career centered on Dominican identity and the experiences of Caribbean and Latino communities. His work includes the first Dominican mural in Washington, D.C., created in collaboration with the Dominican Embassy, and a mural in Kingston, Jamaica, celebrating the relationship between the Dominican Republic and Jamaica.

He has also collaborated on the film In the Heights and with filmmaker Ava DuVernay, Major League Baseball, Adidas and Royal Caribbean.

The Bronx project was commissioned by Art Bridge and funded by MAC Cosmetics, with production handled by Monumenta.do, a large-scale public art producer of Grupo EPREI, a Dominican creative company directed by Venus Patricia Díaz and co-founded by Angurria.

The completed mural transforms an everyday image associated with Dominican neighborhoods into a monumental work visible across the Bronx, highlighting the cultural contributions of Dominican and Latino communities to New York City.