Life
James De La Vega was born in East Harlem, the son of Jaime De La Vega and Elsie Matos, and studied at York Preparatory School and later at Cornell University, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1994. He is a former teacher. For five years, he had a store on St. Mark’s Place in the East Village that he named the De La Vega Museum. The store closed in 2010 and he has since opened a CafePress online shop.
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