Past exhibitions

Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Las Galerias
Curated by Rita Gonzalez, LACMA; Howard Fox, LACMA; and Chon Noriega, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Chicano Studies Research Center of the University of California, Los Angeles. Phantom Sightings is the first exhibition to focus o...
Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Las Galerias
Curated by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio. This landmark exhibition examines pioneering Caribbean and Latin American artists who lived in New York City before World War II and shaped the American avant-garde. Between 1900 and 1942, New York City was the site o...
Arte ≠ Vida
September 2009 - January 2010
Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Curated by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio. Arte ≠ Vida surveys, for the first time, the vast range of performative actions created over the last four decades by Latinos working in the United States, as well as artists working in the Dominican Republic, Cuba,...
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Las Galerias
Curated by Elvis Fuentes, Curator, El Museo del Barrio, and E. Carmen Ramos, The Newark Museum; with Rodolfo Kronfle Chambers, Ecuador. The (S) Files highlights the most innovative, cutting-edge art being produced by emerging Latino and Latin American artists currently living and working in the gre...
The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos)
Friday, February 23, 2007
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Curated by Laurel Reuter; organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art Works by 13 contemporary artists of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, and Venezuela respond to the "desaparecidos"—the tens of thousands of persons who were illegally kidnapped, tortured, killed and "vanished" in...
¡Merengue! Visual Rhythms / Ritmos Visuales
Friday, September 29, 2006
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Curated by Sara Hermann; organized by Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Santiago, República Dominicana Through more than 50 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures by 36 artists, as well as through popular graphics, videos, photographs, and an illustrated timeline, this exhibiti...
This Skin I'm In: Contemporary Dominican Art from El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection
Friday, September 29, 2006
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Curated by Deborah Cullen Recent acquisitions of contemporary works by Dominican artists focused on New York-based practitioners, while including select artists from the island. This constellation―the first core collection of contemporary Dominican art in any U.S. museum―explores the idea of sk...