September 2017 - January 2018
Chinese American Museum
(Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art) Circles and Circuits explores the art of the Chinese Caribbean diaspora from the early 20th century to the present day. By examining the contributions of artists of Chinese descent in Cuba, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and beyond, the exhibition will reveal the hidden complexities of the transcultural art of the Caribbean. The exhibition will be presented at two venues, the Chinese American Museum (CAM) and the California African American Museum (CAAM). The presentation at CAAM will trace the history of Chinese Caribbean art from the 1930s through the period of the region’s independence movements, showcasing the contributions of artists little known outside their own countries, such as Sybil Atteck (Trinidad and Tobago) and Manuel Chong-Neto (Panama), and providing a new context for understanding the better-known work of Wifredo Lam (Cuba). At CAM, the exhibition will focus on the work of contemporary artists such as Albert Chong and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, as well as artists of the ongoing Chinese Caribbean diaspora. The contemporary works featured explore issues of post-colonial history, popular culture, personal history, and the body.
Circles and Circuits explora el arte de la diáspora china-caribeña de principios del siglo XX hasta la actualidad. Al examinar los aportes de artistas de descendencia china en Cuba, Panamá, Trinidad y Tobago, Jamaica, y otros lugares, la exposición revelará las complejidades ocultas del arte transcultural del Caribe. La exposición se presentará en dos sitios, en el Chinese American Museum (CAM) y el California African American Museum (CAAM). La presentación en CAAM recorrerá la historia del arte chino-caribeño desde los años treinta hasta el período de los movimientos de independencia de la región, mostrando los aportes de artistas poco conocidos fuera de sus propios países como Sybil Atteck de Trinidad y Tobago y Manuel Chong-Neto de Panamá. Además, se ofrecerá un nuevo contexto para comprender mejor la obra de Wifredo Lam de Cuba. En CAM, la exposición se enfocará en la obra de artistas contemporáneos como Albert Chong y María Magdalena Campos-Pons, así como artistas de la diáspora china-caribeña actual. Las obras contemporáneas presentadas exploran temas sobre la historia poscolonial, la cultura popular, la historia personal y el cuerpo. camla.org
Chinese American Museum
(Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art) Circles and Circuits explores the art of the Chinese Caribbean diaspora from the early 20th century to the present day. By examining the contributions of artists of Chinese descent in Cuba, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and beyond, the exhibition will reveal the hidden complexities of the transcultural art of the Caribbean. The exhibition will be presented at two venues, the Chinese American Museum (CAM) and the California African American Museum (CAAM). The presentation at CAAM will trace the history of Chinese Caribbean art from the 1930s through the period of the region’s independence movements, showcasing the contributions of artists little known outside their own countries, such as Sybil Atteck (Trinidad and Tobago) and Manuel Chong-Neto (Panama), and providing a new context for understanding the better-known work of Wifredo Lam (Cuba). At CAM, the exhibition will focus on the work of contemporary artists such as Albert Chong and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, as well as artists of the ongoing Chinese Caribbean diaspora. The contemporary works featured explore issues of post-colonial history, popular culture, personal history, and the body.
Circles and Circuits explora el arte de la diáspora china-caribeña de principios del siglo XX hasta la actualidad. Al examinar los aportes de artistas de descendencia china en Cuba, Panamá, Trinidad y Tobago, Jamaica, y otros lugares, la exposición revelará las complejidades ocultas del arte transcultural del Caribe. La exposición se presentará en dos sitios, en el Chinese American Museum (CAM) y el California African American Museum (CAAM). La presentación en CAAM recorrerá la historia del arte chino-caribeño desde los años treinta hasta el período de los movimientos de independencia de la región, mostrando los aportes de artistas poco conocidos fuera de sus propios países como Sybil Atteck de Trinidad y Tobago y Manuel Chong-Neto de Panamá. Además, se ofrecerá un nuevo contexto para comprender mejor la obra de Wifredo Lam de Cuba. En CAM, la exposición se enfocará en la obra de artistas contemporáneos como Albert Chong y María Magdalena Campos-Pons, así como artistas de la diáspora china-caribeña actual. Las obras contemporáneas presentadas exploran temas sobre la historia poscolonial, la cultura popular, la historia personal y el cuerpo. camla.org
MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art)
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago will call attention to a region of the Americas that is difficult to categorize and often overlooked: the island nations of the Caribbean. The exhibition proposes an “archipelagic model”—defining the Caribbean from the perspective of its archipelago of islands, as distinct from the continental experience—to study issues around race, history, the legacy of colonialism, and the environment. The exhibition features artists from the Hispanophone, Anglophone, Francophone, and Dutch Caribbean. Relational Undercurrents will emphasize the thematic continuities of art made throughout the archipelago and its diasporas, challenging conventional geographic and conceptual boundaries of Latin America. This approach draws particular attention to issues arising from the colonial legacy that are relevant to Latin America as a whole, but which emerge as central to the work of 21st-century Caribbean artists, including Janine Antoni (Bahamas), Humberto Diáz (Cuba), Jorge Pineda (Dominican Republic), and Allora & Calzadilla (Puerto Rico).
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago apuntará a una región del continente americano difícil de categorizar y que generalmente se pasa por alto: las naciones insulares del Caribe. La exposición propone un “modelo de archipiélago”, el cual define al Caribe desde la perspectiva de su archipiélago de islas, en contraste con la experiencia continental, para estudiar problemas sobre raza, historia, el legado del colonialismo y el medio ambiente. La exposición presenta artistas del Caribe hispanohablante, anglófono, francófono y de habla holandesa. Relational Undercurrents enfatizará las continuidades temáticas del arte realizadas en el archipiélago y sus diásporas desafiando los límites conceptuales y geográficos convencionales de Latinoamérica. Este enfoque hace hincapié en los problemas que surgen del legado colonial que son relevantes para Latinoamérica como conjunto, pero que surgen como un tema central para la obra de artistas caribeños del siglo XXI, como Janine Antoni (Bahamas), Humberto Diáz (Cuba), Jorge Pineda (República Dominicana) y Allora & Calzadilla (Puerto Rico). molaa.org pacificstandardtime.org
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago will call attention to a region of the Americas that is difficult to categorize and often overlooked: the island nations of the Caribbean. The exhibition proposes an “archipelagic model”—defining the Caribbean from the perspective of its archipelago of islands, as distinct from the continental experience—to study issues around race, history, the legacy of colonialism, and the environment. The exhibition features artists from the Hispanophone, Anglophone, Francophone, and Dutch Caribbean. Relational Undercurrents will emphasize the thematic continuities of art made throughout the archipelago and its diasporas, challenging conventional geographic and conceptual boundaries of Latin America. This approach draws particular attention to issues arising from the colonial legacy that are relevant to Latin America as a whole, but which emerge as central to the work of 21st-century Caribbean artists, including Janine Antoni (Bahamas), Humberto Diáz (Cuba), Jorge Pineda (Dominican Republic), and Allora & Calzadilla (Puerto Rico).
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago apuntará a una región del continente americano difícil de categorizar y que generalmente se pasa por alto: las naciones insulares del Caribe. La exposición propone un “modelo de archipiélago”, el cual define al Caribe desde la perspectiva de su archipiélago de islas, en contraste con la experiencia continental, para estudiar problemas sobre raza, historia, el legado del colonialismo y el medio ambiente. La exposición presenta artistas del Caribe hispanohablante, anglófono, francófono y de habla holandesa. Relational Undercurrents enfatizará las continuidades temáticas del arte realizadas en el archipiélago y sus diásporas desafiando los límites conceptuales y geográficos convencionales de Latinoamérica. Este enfoque hace hincapié en los problemas que surgen del legado colonial que son relevantes para Latinoamérica como conjunto, pero que surgen como un tema central para la obra de artistas caribeños del siglo XXI, como Janine Antoni (Bahamas), Humberto Diáz (Cuba), Jorge Pineda (República Dominicana) y Allora & Calzadilla (Puerto Rico). molaa.org pacificstandardtime.org
28 April 2016 – 25 June 2016
Galerie Lelong
Galerie Lelong is pleased to present Constructivist Dialogues in the Cuban Vanguard: Amelia Peláez, Loló Soldevilla & Zilia Sánchez (Diálogos constructivistas en la vanguardia cubana: Amelia Peláez, Loló Soldevilla and Zilia Sánchez), a group exhibition of three Cuban painters engaged in geometric and constructivist practices from the 1930s to the present. While all three painters enjoyed the support of the Lyceum women’s club gallery, a women’s social and intellectual institution in Havana, their connections go beyond gender. The exhibition reveals shared interests in architecture and space, as well as pattern and color, demonstrating geometric abstraction’s long history in Cuba. Zilia Sánchez will be present for the opening reception on Thursday, May 5 from 6-8pm. galerielelong.com
Galerie Lelong
Galerie Lelong is pleased to present Constructivist Dialogues in the Cuban Vanguard: Amelia Peláez, Loló Soldevilla & Zilia Sánchez (Diálogos constructivistas en la vanguardia cubana: Amelia Peláez, Loló Soldevilla and Zilia Sánchez), a group exhibition of three Cuban painters engaged in geometric and constructivist practices from the 1930s to the present. While all three painters enjoyed the support of the Lyceum women’s club gallery, a women’s social and intellectual institution in Havana, their connections go beyond gender. The exhibition reveals shared interests in architecture and space, as well as pattern and color, demonstrating geometric abstraction’s long history in Cuba. Zilia Sánchez will be present for the opening reception on Thursday, May 5 from 6-8pm. galerielelong.com
14 June – 6 September 2015
Blanton Museum of Art
2 October 2015–3 January 2016
Brooklyn Museum
29 January –24 April 2016
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World (El impresionismo y el Caribe: Francisco Oller y su mundo transatlántico) situates Oller within a large artistic context, beginning with the exchange between Europe and the Caribbean in the eighteenth century. The Atlantic was painted and bridged throughout this era by such gifted artists as the Puerto Rican painter José Campeche, the Spanish court painter Luis Paret y Alcázar, and the Caribbean-based Italian painter Agostino Brunias. In the nineteenth century, Oller built on this established transatlantic trend by developing his unique brand of international modernism. Through approximately sixty paintings, this exhibition celebrates Oller’s important contributions to both the Paris avant-garde and the Puerto Rican school of painting within a larger artistic, geographic, and historical context.
La exhibición, que ubica las aportaciones de Oller en un contexto regional e internacional, está conformada por 86 pinturas y obras sobre papel realizadas por Oller, sus predecesores y sus contemporáneos de ambos lados del Atlántico. Además de las obras de Oller, los visitantes disfrutarán de obras de Camille Pissarro, Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, Paul Cézanne y Claude Monet y otros 20 reconocidos artistas. Formado como artista entre España y Francia, Francisco Oller y Cestero es considerado el artista más destacado del siglo XIX en Puerto Rico, y su aportación al arte nacional es incuestionable. ‘El impresionismo y el Caribe: Francisco Oller y su mundo transatlántico’ nos habla del proceso de intercambio y descubrimiento entre Europa y el Caribe, propiciado por los viajes y experiencias de Oller a ambos lados del atlántico.
blantonmuseum.org brooklynmuseum.org mapr.org
Blanton Museum of Art
2 October 2015–3 January 2016
Brooklyn Museum
29 January –24 April 2016
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World (El impresionismo y el Caribe: Francisco Oller y su mundo transatlántico) situates Oller within a large artistic context, beginning with the exchange between Europe and the Caribbean in the eighteenth century. The Atlantic was painted and bridged throughout this era by such gifted artists as the Puerto Rican painter José Campeche, the Spanish court painter Luis Paret y Alcázar, and the Caribbean-based Italian painter Agostino Brunias. In the nineteenth century, Oller built on this established transatlantic trend by developing his unique brand of international modernism. Through approximately sixty paintings, this exhibition celebrates Oller’s important contributions to both the Paris avant-garde and the Puerto Rican school of painting within a larger artistic, geographic, and historical context.
La exhibición, que ubica las aportaciones de Oller en un contexto regional e internacional, está conformada por 86 pinturas y obras sobre papel realizadas por Oller, sus predecesores y sus contemporáneos de ambos lados del Atlántico. Además de las obras de Oller, los visitantes disfrutarán de obras de Camille Pissarro, Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, Paul Cézanne y Claude Monet y otros 20 reconocidos artistas. Formado como artista entre España y Francia, Francisco Oller y Cestero es considerado el artista más destacado del siglo XIX en Puerto Rico, y su aportación al arte nacional es incuestionable. ‘El impresionismo y el Caribe: Francisco Oller y su mundo transatlántico’ nos habla del proceso de intercambio y descubrimiento entre Europa y el Caribe, propiciado por los viajes y experiencias de Oller a ambos lados del atlántico.
blantonmuseum.org brooklynmuseum.org mapr.org
19 November 2014 – 15 February 2015
Grand Palais
Focusing on Haitian art from the 19th century to the present day, the exhibition takes an approach that is at once historical, social and cultural. Against a background of urban chaos and vigorous popular culture, this exploration of the visual arts aims to go beyond the archetypes of naïve and primitive painting and transcend the restrictive magico-religious and exotic vision associated with Haitian art.With nearly 150 works, Hyppolite's Kiss or the Art of Haiti presents art free of any rigid framework, readily mingling poetry, magic, religion and political commitment thorough a great variety of forms, blurring the boundary between art and the street, between a world of forms and everyday life.
L’exposition, la première sur le sujet, propose de découvrir l’extraordinaire richesse de la création artistique haïtienne : elle n’a cessé de jaillir au coeur du destin tourmenté de la première République noire, mêlant poésie, magie, religion et engagement politique, à travers les formes les plus diverses. Peintures, sculptures, installations, suspensions, vidéo… témoignent de cette vivacité culturelle, du XIXe siècle à nos jours. grandpalais.fr
Grand Palais
Focusing on Haitian art from the 19th century to the present day, the exhibition takes an approach that is at once historical, social and cultural. Against a background of urban chaos and vigorous popular culture, this exploration of the visual arts aims to go beyond the archetypes of naïve and primitive painting and transcend the restrictive magico-religious and exotic vision associated with Haitian art.With nearly 150 works, Hyppolite's Kiss or the Art of Haiti presents art free of any rigid framework, readily mingling poetry, magic, religion and political commitment thorough a great variety of forms, blurring the boundary between art and the street, between a world of forms and everyday life.
L’exposition, la première sur le sujet, propose de découvrir l’extraordinaire richesse de la création artistique haïtienne : elle n’a cessé de jaillir au coeur du destin tourmenté de la première République noire, mêlant poésie, magie, religion et engagement politique, à travers les formes les plus diverses. Peintures, sculptures, installations, suspensions, vidéo… témoignent de cette vivacité culturelle, du XIXe siècle à nos jours. grandpalais.fr
12 June 2012 – 6 January 2013
El Museo del Barrio
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 an ambitious range of programs and events, Caribbean: Crossroads offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the diverse and impactful cultural history of the Caribbean basin and its diaspora. More than 500 works of art spanning four centuries illuminate changing aesthetics and ideologies and provoke meaningful conversations about topics ranging from commerce and cultural hybridity to politics and pop culture. elmuseo.org
El Museo del Barrio
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 an ambitious range of programs and events, Caribbean: Crossroads offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the diverse and impactful cultural history of the Caribbean basin and its diaspora. More than 500 works of art spanning four centuries illuminate changing aesthetics and ideologies and provoke meaningful conversations about topics ranging from commerce and cultural hybridity to politics and pop culture. elmuseo.org
AUGUST 31, 2007–JANUARY 27, 2008
Brooklyn Museum
Infinite Island presents some eighty works made in the last six years that reflect the region’s dynamic mix of cultures, its diasporas, and its socio-political realities, all of which are constantly transforming themselves. The forty-five emerging and established artists, who work both in the Caribbean and abroad, represent multiple perspectives as they explore the complexities of Caribbean history and identity. Including painting, sculpture, photography, prints and drawings, video, and installation, the exhibition is grouped around themes that encompass history, memory, politics, myth, religion, and popular culture. brooklynmuseum.org
Brooklyn Museum
Infinite Island presents some eighty works made in the last six years that reflect the region’s dynamic mix of cultures, its diasporas, and its socio-political realities, all of which are constantly transforming themselves. The forty-five emerging and established artists, who work both in the Caribbean and abroad, represent multiple perspectives as they explore the complexities of Caribbean history and identity. Including painting, sculpture, photography, prints and drawings, video, and installation, the exhibition is grouped around themes that encompass history, memory, politics, myth, religion, and popular culture. brooklynmuseum.org