El Museo del Barrio New York

This exhibition explores the layered meanings and interpretations of the real as it is represented in photography and video art. Drawing on the presentation of the landscape, the human figure, the world of architecture, various objects and natural phenomena, these images explore alternative realitie...

The exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World is the culmination of nearly a decade of collaborative research and scholarship organized by El Museo del Barrio in conjunction with the Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Presenting work at the three museums and accompanied by a...

Curated by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs Drawing on rarely-seen works from El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection and select loans from the New York area, Testimonios examines potent works by non-traditionally trained makers. This exhibition celebrates and witnesses mankind&rs...

Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Curator Drawn from El Museo del Barrio's wide-ranging Permanent Collection, this exhibition features works that explore the vast diversity and complexity of the Caribbean basin, as an accompaniment to El Museo’s upcoming exhibition, Caribbean: Crossroads of the W...

Times of crisis are also times in which life extends into the streets. The artists in this exhibition have created gestures that address social interaction, economic reaction, and the street as stage or object worthy of aesthetic intervention.FEATURINGCOCO144 / Roberto GualtieriAlexis DuqueGerard El...

DUE TO A FORECAST OF RAIN, THIS PROGRAM IS NOW SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 FROM 2PM TO 6PM. SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. The artists have been invited to install their nomadic urban dolmen on the site of this garden, newly renovated by the city, and formerly functioning as a commun...

The artist works with plastics recovered from various local rivers to create temporary, site-specific sculptures that vary in scale according to location.   El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 @ NYRPThis series of performances and temporary, site-specific installations draws from our exhi...

Many of the artist's works bridge private rituals with the movement of the street environment. In this garden, the artist will be performing another of his Sound Protest works, in which he uses a boombox and a series of photographs to call attention to current issues around the environment and the s...

The artists featured at Lehman College Art Gallery share an affinity for illustration and the narrative force of images. The exhibition itself becomes a picturesque walk through the city, a catalogue of people, objects, out-fits, daily and imaginary cityscapes. The urban environment is the setting f...

The artist will create a temporary, site specific installation using found wood and other organic materials in or near the garden. Each of her works made with found objects relates to the space in which the objects were found. She will adapt the scale and content of the work according to the content...

We Will Survive performance In partnership with the New York Restoration Project, this is a second portion of a performance that was initiated in June at Socrates Sculpture Park. In Long Island City, the artists gathered discarded objects in order to classify and document them as a part of a proces...

This exhibition focuses more specifically on local graffiti writers and their newer "canvases," focusing on artists of various generations and their contemporary contributions to street aesthetics. Their art explores the re-use of objects including street signs, cardboard, objects caught in the ocea...

DUE TO RAIN, THIS EVENT, ORGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 HAS NOW BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. This series of performances and temporary, site-specific installations draws from our exhibition, El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011. Capturing the unique energy of innovati...

Art performed at this venue deals with the idea of the street as a square. Throughout the world, in small cities and large, the square is the place where things happen—Social encounters, political events, and economic exchanges are part of the everyday life. . . This group of artists illustrat...

This show features imagery by a number of artists that share an affinity for illustration and the narrative force of images. Thinking of the exhibition as a picturesque walk through the city, it conceptualizes the street as a kind of visual library; an opportunity to sample people, objects, costumes...

Curated by Elvis Fuentes, Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, and Trinidad Fombella, El Museo del Barrio; and guest curator Juanita Bermúdez, Biennial of the Central American Isthmus El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 is El Museo del Barrio's sixth biennial of the most innovative, cutting-e...

This window exhibition, accessible to the public 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, presents a selection of painters and sculptors invested in abstraction but also interested in the narrative form; a sampling of both tendencies reveals the breadth of approaches to exploring space or developing narrative...

Organized by Daros Latinamerica, Zurich, curated by Hans-Michael Herzog and Katrin Steffen Part of El Museo's FOCOS series, which highlights groundbreaking, mature, yet under-recognized artists, this traveling retrospective highlights the extensive work of Uruguayan conceptual artist Luis Camnitzer...

This installation in the Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries, drawn from our Permanent Collection, features works with an urban sensibility that deploy pared-down building blocks of shape, color, and form to express revealing worldviews.

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 Rep...