Contact: Lauren Van Natten
T. 212 660 7102
lvannatten@elmuseo.org
For Immediate Release

EL MUSEO’S 4^TH BIENAL -
THE (S) FILES / THE SELECTED FILES

NEW YORK, NY – August 2005 – El Museo del Barrio, New York’s premier Latino and Latin American cultural institution, is excited to announce our fall exhibition. El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files / The Selected Files highlights the most cutting-edge art produced by emerging Latino/Latin American artists working in the greater New York area. While celebrating the experimental immediacy of contemporary art, the project offers the excitement of noting rising talents. This selection of innovative works by 40 artists includes traditional media such as painting, drawing, photography and video, but also showcases more experimental work incorporating sound, performative elements, interactive projects and site-specific installations that will extend beyond the galleries into the lobby and courtyard as well as into the students’ taller, or workshop. This 4 th edition of El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files continues El Museo’s commitment to up-and-coming artists: many of the works on display have been chosen from the unsolicited submissions to El Museo’s Artists’ Archive over the past two years. The exhibition has been curated by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio, and Miki Garcia, Executive Director, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. For the first time, the 2005 bienal features an invited guest curator who, spotlighting a specific country or region, will bring artists from their home nation to be represented in the show. This year, guest Marysol Nieves, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, has selected four artists from Puerto Rico for inclusion in the bienal.

A calendar of programs and events complementary to the exhibition as well a 100-page catalogue will be available upon the inauguration of the bienal on September 14. A list of participating artists for El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files / The Selected Files has been made available for the media. Interviews with the artists and curators as well as visits during the installation process may be arranged through our press office. To set up an advance visit of the exhibition to witness the installation, or to request images of works in El Museo’s Bienal, contact Lauren Van Natten by phone at 212 660 7111 or via email at lvannatten@elmuseo.org.

List of Participating Artists

El Museo’s Bienal:The (S) Files / The Selected Files

• Karina Aguilera Skvirsky (1967; Providence, RI)
• Carlos Aponte (1960; New York, NY)
• Michael Paul Britto (1968; New York, NY)
• David Cabrera (1956; Victorville, CA)
• caraballo-farman (1971; Argentina/1966; Canada-Iran)
• Patricia Cazorla (1973; Lima, Perú. Raised in Venezuela)
• David Antonio Cruz (1974; Philadelphia, PA)
• Chio Flores (Lima, Peru)
• Nancy Friedemann (Bogotá, Colombia)
• Graciela Fuentes (1975; Monterrey, NL, Mexico)
• iliana emilia garcia (1970; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
• Richard Garet (1972; Montevideo, Uruguay)
• Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom(1972; Miami, FL/1974; Providence, RI)
• Yasmín Hernández (1975; Brooklyn, NY)
• Cristina Hernández-Botero (1977; Bogotá, Colombia)
• Juan Iribarren (1956; Caracas, Venezuela)
• José Enrique Krapp (1970; El Paso, Texas)
• Michael D. Linares (1979; San Juan, Puerto Rico)
• Nicola López (1975; Santa Fe, NM)
• Adria Marquez (1975; Weehawken, NJ. Raised in Miami, FL)
• Diego Medina Rosas (1969; Guadalajara, Mexico)
• Carlos Motta (1978; Bogotá, Colombia)
• Alfonso Muñoz (1962; Isabela, Puerto Rico)
• Jesús “Bubu” Negrón (1975; Arecibo, Puerto Rico)
• Claudia Peña (1975; Nuevo Leon, Mexico)
• Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (1976; Bronx, New York)
• Fay Ray (1978; Riverside, CA)
• Quintín Rivera-Toro (1978; Caguas, Puerto Rico)
• ChemiRosado Seijo (1973; Vega Alta, Puerto Rico)
• Milton Rosa-Ortiz (1967; Santurce, Puerto Rico)
• Raymond Saá (1972; New Orleans, LA)
• Luis M. Salazar (1974; San Salvador, El Salvador)
• Alessandra Sanguinetti (1968; New York, NY)
• Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (Puerto Rico)
• Erik Shorrock Güzmán (1973; Caguas, Puerto Rico)
• Marisa Tellería-Díez (1963; Managua, Nicaragua)
• Alejandra Villasmil (1972; Maracaibo, Venezuela)
• Patricia Zarate (1962, Cali, Colombia)

Major support for El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files / The Selected Files has been provided by Altria Group, Inc. and Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation. Additional funding has been provided by Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, The Greenwall Foundation, Peter Norton Family Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, Mary McCaffrey and Violy & Company. Media partners for the exhibition are The New York Times Community Affairs Department and Univisión 41/TeleFutura 68.