Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)

Please join us for a public, in-person reception to celebrate the opening ofEros Rising: Visions of the Erotic in Latin American Artfrom 5 to 8 PM on June 16. News ISLAA Jun 16, 2022 → Sep 30, 2022 EROS RISING: VISIONS OF THE EROTIC IN LATIN AMERICAN ART Featuring works by Artur Barrio, Oscar Bony, Carmelo Carrá, Feliciano Centurión, David Lamelas, Carlos Motta, Wynnie Mynerva, La Chola Poblete, Tadáskía, and Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Eros Rising: Visions of the Erotic in Latin American Art e

Open Call for Summer 2023 Writer in Residence at ISLAA News

ISLAA's on-site reading room will reopen in the fall News ISLAA

Bernardo Mosqueira will join ISLAA as the inaugural chief curator News Oct 12, 2022 → Dec 2, 2023 PAINTING SITUATIONS: SIGFREDO CHACÓN AND LILIANA PORTER ISLAA is delighted to congratulate the University of Florida on its exhibition and related public programming, Painting Situations: Sigfredo Chacón and Liliana Porter. These projects developed from a graduate seminar at the University of Florida supported by ISLAA through our Artist Seminar Initiative, an education and curatorial program that f

Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) Library and Archives. Photo by Olympia Shannon News Jan 1, 2025 → Dec 31, 2025 ISLAA 2025: YEAR IN REVIEW Explore ISLAA 2025 Year in Review, reflecting sustained growth across exhibitions, research, archives, and scholarly collaboration. News Apr 26, 2025 → Aug 16, 2025 SPOTLIGHT: LOTTY ROSENFELD Part of ISLAA's Spotlight series, this presentation highlighted Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld's 1979 action Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento. E

Grantees announced! The grantees were chosen by a selection committee to further the study of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx art and visual culture. News Aug 12, 2023 → Sep 2, 2023 WATCH ONLINE—"270" FILM SERIES Explore intimate portraits of contemporary artists Event Oct 12, 2022 → Dec 2, 2023 PAINTING SITUATIONS: SIGFREDO CHACÓN AND LILIANA PORTER ISLAA is delighted to congratulate the University of Florida on its exhibition and related public programming, Painting Situations: Sigfredo

Bernardo Mosqueira is named the inaugural ISLAA Curatorial Fellow in partnership with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. News Aug 19, 2021 → Oct 30, 2021 "FROM SURFACE TO SPACE": MAX BILL AND CONCRETE SCULPTURE IN BUENOS AIRES “From Surface to Space”: Max Bill and Concrete Sculpture in Buenos Aires, curated by Francesca Ferrari, explored concurrent experiments in Concrete sculpture amid the formative, transnational creative dialogue between the Swiss artist Max Bill and the Argentine avant-gard

News Poster House Jan 1, 2025 → Dec 31, 2025 ISLAA 2025: YEAR IN REVIEW Explore ISLAA 2025 Year in Review, reflecting sustained growth across exhibitions, research, archives, and scholarly collaboration. News Apr 26, 2025 → Dec 20, 2025 SPOTLIGHT: LEA LUBLIN Part of ISLAA's Spotlight series, this presentation features a work by French Argentine artist Lea Lublin. Exhibition ISLAA Aug 22, 2025 → Nov 10, 2025 ULISES BEISSO: MI MUNDO PRIVADO Organized in partnership with ISLAA, this major exhibitio

Celebrating the release of Andrea Giunta’s bookThe Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America, this event features a conversation with artists featured in the publication, including Mónica Mayer and Rosana Paulino, moderated by author Andrea Giunta. Event Online Oct 12, 2022 → Dec 2, 2023 PAINTING SITUATIONS: SIGFREDO CHACÓN AND LILIANA PORTER ISLAA is delighted to congratulate the University of Florida on its exhibition and related public programming, Painting S

South and About! is a student-organized research workshop on the arts from Latin America and the Caribbean, supported by ISLAA. Event Online Aug 19, 2021 → Oct 30, 2021 "FROM SURFACE TO SPACE": MAX BILL AND CONCRETE SCULPTURE IN BUENOS AIRES “From Surface to Space”: Max Bill and Concrete Sculpture in Buenos Aires, curated by Francesca Ferrari, explored concurrent experiments in Concrete sculpture amid the formative, transnational creative dialogue between the Swiss artist Max Bill and the Argent

South and About! is a student-organized research workshop on the arts from Latin America and the Caribbean, supported by ISLAA. Event

Celebrating the release of Mariola V. Alvarez’s The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Brazilian Modernism, 1954–1964 (March 2023) and Adele Nelson’s Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil (February 2022), this event features introductions by Studies on Latin American Art series editor Alexander Alberro followed by a conversation with the authors, moderated by Roberto Conduru. Event ISLAA

Presented in partnership with Columbia University. Event

A live performance by Naomi Rincón Gallardo to accompany the exhibition of her film The Formaldehyde Trip (2017). Event New Museum

Hosted by the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, this conference explores the entanglements between artistic expression and the movement of people, ideas, and capital across the globe in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries Event Online Oct 12, 2022 → Dec 2, 2023 PAINTING SITUATIONS: SIGFREDO CHACÓN AND LILIANA PORTER ISLAA is delighted to congratulate the University of Florida on its exhibition and related public programming, Painting Situations: Sigfred

Artist, poet, activist and philosopher, Cecilia Vicuña (a long-time resident of New York born in Chile) has been noted for many decades for her work in a wide variety of media and venues. Event

Join us for the opening ofPolitical/Subjective Maps: Anna Bella Geiger, Magali Lara, Lea Lublin, and Margarita Paksaat ISLAA on October 13. News ISLAA Oct 12, 2022 → Dec 2, 2023 PAINTING SITUATIONS: SIGFREDO CHACÓN AND LILIANA PORTER ISLAA is delighted to congratulate the University of Florida on its exhibition and related public programming, Painting Situations: Sigfredo Chacón and Liliana Porter. These projects developed from a graduate seminar at the University of Florida supported by ISLAA t

Event Hunter College Jan 1, 2025 → Dec 31, 2025 ISLAA 2025: YEAR IN REVIEW Explore ISLAA 2025 Year in Review, reflecting sustained growth across exhibitions, research, archives, and scholarly collaboration. News Apr 26, 2025 → Dec 20, 2025 SPOTLIGHT: LEA LUBLIN Part of ISLAA's Spotlight series, this presentation features a work by French Argentine artist Lea Lublin. Exhibition ISLAA Aug 22, 2025 → Nov 10, 2025 ULISES BEISSO: MI MUNDO PRIVADO Organized in partnership with ISLAA, this major exhibi

This lecture is presented as part of the CCS Bard course When Radical Attitudes Become Form: Reinvention and Destruction of Art in 1960s Latin America, led by Mariano López Seoane. The course at CCS Bard is part of the ISLAA Artist Seminar Initiative, which supports seminars for graduate students. Event CCS Bard

This panel celebrated the remarkable career of Cuban-born, New York–based artist Camera Herrera and the thirty-year survey of her work, Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2016–2017. Event

South and About! is a student-organized research workshop on the arts from Latin America and the Caribbean, supported by ISLAA. Event Online

South and About! is a student-organized research workshop on the arts from Latin America and the Caribbean, supported by ISLAA. Event

Celebrate the release of Sean Nesselrode Moncada’s book Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela (August 2023). Event ISLAA Oct 27, 2023 → Jan 26, 2024 VITAL AND VEILED: VALERIE BRATHWAITE AND JOSÉ GABRIEL FERNÁNDEZ Vital and Veiled: Valerie Brathwaite and José Gabriel Fernández, curated by Kaira M. Cabañas and Jesús Fuenmayor, is the second exhibition in the ISLAA Artist Seminar Initiative at the University of Florida. Exhibition UF Galleries Oct 28, 2023 → Feb 10, 2024 REVISIT

“Curandera: The Artist as Healer and Curator”, keynote address by María Magdalena Campos-Pons moderated by Tatiana Flores, ASAP President. Proudly supported by ISLAA. Event Online Sep 22, 2021 → May 14, 2022 ANNOUNCING ISLAA LOANS AND CO-PUBLICATION: “THIS MUST BE THE PLACE: LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN NEW YORK, 1965–1975” The forthcoming oral history book, and its related exhibition, present urgent revisions to existing narratives of New York's art scene in the 1960s–70s. News Nov 3, 2021 → Dec 1

Join us to celebrate the opening of our new space at 142 Franklin Street. News ISLAA