Past exhibitions

Around the Way
beginsMonday, September 20, 2010
endsFriday, October 15, 2010
Macy's Herald Square
Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Trinidad Fombella and organized by Macy's with El Museo del Barrio Featuring the work of young Latino artists, this exhibition explores a variety of themes including the connections between friends and families and their neighborhoods. Photogr...
Nueva York (1613-1945)
beginsFriday, September 17, 2010
endsSunday, January 9, 2011
Las Galerías
Presented in collaboration with the New-York Historical Society This intriguing exhibition reveals the powerful role that Latinos and Spanish-speaking countries have played over three centuries to help shape New York into the most culturally vibrant city in the world. Art work...
Retro/Active: The Work of Rafael Ferrer
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Las Galerias
Curated by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio. In the late 1960s, Puerto Rican-born Rafael Ferrer became internationally renowned for his guerilla art actions in New York and Philadelphia. In the 1970s, he was known for assemblage sculptures, kayaks, an...
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 exhibitio...
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 wa...
VOCES Y VISIONES: Four Decades Through El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection
beginsSaturday, October 17, 2009
endsSunday, December 12, 2010
Las Galerias
Curated by Elvis Fuentes, Curator, El Museo del Barrio The premiere exhibition in our new Carmen Ana Unanue Permanent Collection Galleries celebrates El Museo's 40th anniversary. Over 100 works created by a cross-section of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American artists trace the museum'...
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 workin...
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 "...
¡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, t...
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 th...