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- Angel Otero. B. 1981, Santurce, Puerto Rico. Lives and works in New York. Untitled, 2019. Lehmann Maupin. Fish Rain, 2021.
- Glendalys Medina. B. 1979, Puerto Rico. Lives and works in New York. COLOR STUDY 7.16.21, 2021. Davidson. Glendalys Medina wants to rewire your brain.
- Guadalupe Maravilla. B. 1976, El Salvador. Lives and works in Brooklyn and Richmond, Virginia. Disease Thrower #10, 2020. P.P.O.W.
- Joiri Minaya. B. 1990, New York. Lives and works in New York. Emergence I, 2021. The Hole. Continuum, 2020. Jenkins Johnson Gallery. Throughout the early 20th century, Caribbean women were exoticized and fetishized in advertising images across America and Europe, positioned as playthings for vacationing white men.
- Doris Salcedo
- Vik Muniz
- Jose Alejandro Restrepo
- Zilia Sánchez
- Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara
- Tania Bruguera
- Paz Errázuriz
- Mónica Mayer
- Luis Esquivel
- Marta Minujín
The starting point of Doris Salcedo’s art is the personal histories of political victims in her native Colombia. Salcedo creates understated sculptures and installations with complex themes related to genocide, trauma, racism, and colonialism. Salcedo’s media include everyday objects such as household furniture, hair, and clothing. Since 1988, she ...
Our next contemporary Latin American artist is Vik Muniz, a famous Brazilian artist and photographer. Initially a sculptor, he now focuses on photography and mixed media. His art shines a spotlight on the effects of globalization and economic inequality. Muniz is known for repurposing everyday materials to create intricate and heavily layered recre...
José Alejandro Restrepois a contemporary Latin American artist with more than 30 years producing electronic arts. His training and interests encompass the visual and performing arts, installation, photography, performance, and editorial production. Restrepo’s work attempts to dismantle the ideology of the system. It touches on religious themes, suc...
Zilia Sánchez Dominguezis a Puerto Rico-based Cuban artist. Her career began in set design and abstract painting for radical theater groups in Cuba prior to the Cuban revolution. Her work was part of the influential exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-85 at the Brooklyn Museum in 2018. In the 1960s, Sánchez reinvented hard-edged, geo...
21st century contemporary Latin American artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is an emerging Cuban performance artist and dissident known for his public performances that openly criticize the Cuban government. A self-taught artist, Alcántara hails from El Cerro, one of Havana’s poorest neighborhoods. Cuban authorities have detained him over 20 times ...
Political and social justice are at the core of female Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s performances, events, community projects, and exhibitions. She addresses oppressive systems and gives voice to the voiceless through her work. She has been both awarded and arrested for her presentations. In 2014, the Cuban government arrested her for attempting to...
Some contemporary Latin American artists are celebrated photographers. In the 1970s, photographer Paz Errázuriz dared to document communities that were being marginalized in Chile under the Pinochet-led dictatorship. She photographed marginalized and oppressed communities including sex workers, psychiatric patients, and circus performers. Ignoring ...
Mónica Mayer is a feminist Mexican artist, activist, and art critic whose work encompasses performance art, graphic design, drawing, photography, and art theory. Art school piqued her interest in feminist activism, when she heard a group of male students state “that women were less creative than men because [they] gave birth.” In 1978, she moved to...
Mexican artist Luis Esquivel is known for his unique neon artwork. Often inspired by electronic music, Luis fuses graphic art, textile design, and technology to form eye-catching and disruptive installations. Striking neon color gradients and geometric shapes characterize Esquivel’s emerging hyper-modern style. Breaking the mold of traditional mode...
Argentinian artist Marta Minujín spent the 1960s ensconced by the Pop art movement, and she occasionally collaborated with Andy Warhol. In stark contrast to Warhol’s work, Minujín’s plush sculptures and public performances invited active participation and physical contact. In the 1960s, she began to transform multicolored mattresses into bulging fo...
- Diego Velázquez. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez. baptized June 6, 1599 (Seville, Spain) Died. August 6, 1660 (Madrid, Spain) Notable Artwork.
- Francisco Goya. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. March 30, 1746 (Fuendetodos, Aragon, Spain) Died. April 16, 1828 (Bordeaux, France) Notable Artwork.
- Joaquín Sorolla. Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. February 27, 1863 (Valencia, Spain) Died. August 10, 1923 (Cercedilla, Spain) Notable Artwork. Walk on the Beach, Sad Inheritance.
- Pablo Picasso. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
Nov 18, 2019 · Lam’s famous painting La Jungla (“The Jungle”) (1943) combines Cubist forms with visual references to mythology, cosmology, and Santería. Lam died in 1982. A transcultural aesthetic scholar, juxtaposing styles and influences from various global traditions, Lam is perhaps the most syncretic artist of the 20th century.
20 Latino Artiststo Watch. 20 Latino Artists. to Watch. By Jenny Chang-Rodriguez and Katty Huertas. September 15, 2021. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the styles and ...
4. Celia Cruz. Celia Cruz was born in Cuba in 1925, and became known as the Queen of Salsa. Her unique voice, expressive singing, and bold style made her recognizable around the world, and helped her win several international music awards. Celia Cruz was a music ambassador, bringing Latin Music to new US Audiences.
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Sep 25, 2023 · Federico Herrero. Sem título, 2019. Galeria Luisa Strina. US$50,000–US$75,000. Influenced by Costa Rica’s rich cultural and natural environment, Federico Herrero ’s kaleidoscopic and expansive practice, which includes painting, installations, and public works, invites viewers to revel in the presence of color.
