IFA Latin America, 1 E 78 Street, New York, NY (2026)

03/20/2022

Join us March 30, 31, and April 1 for the Sixth Annual Symposium of Latin American Art: "Movement and Presence: The Visual Culture of the Americas."

The Symposium is presented by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Columbia University in the City of New York. All programming will be held virtually and will feature keynote presentations by Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva and Dr. Diana Taylor.

To view the full program and register to receive webinar links for each day of the proceedings, please visit the Symposium webpage: http://ifalatinamerica.org/symposium/movement-presence-the-visual-culture-of-the-americas/

Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions/concerns!

03/13/2022

Join us on Monday, March 28th at 6:30 p.m. (EST) for the last South and About! meeting 2021-2022. Grace Kuipers (University of California, Berkely) will present "Common Underground: Detroit Industry's Subsoil Ecologies" and Juan Gabriel Ramírez Bolívar (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) will present "Citizenship and the Idea of Hispanoamérica in the Visual Culture of Mexico and Colombia (1898-1940)"

The event will be held online, and pre-recorded presentations will be circulated in advance to registered attendees (registrations will be limited to 20 attendees). To register, please use the link https://bit.ly/3t5W8SJ

Many thanks to www.islaa.org for generously supporting this event.

02/01/2022

Join us on Monday, February 7th at 6:30 p.m. (EST) for the first South and About! meeting of Spring 2022. Adriana Obiols (University of Chicago) will present "'¿Qué es el indio?': Indigenismo and Photography in Guatemalan Print Culture" and Lesdi C. Goussen Robleto (University of California, Berkeley) will present "Toward Feminist Poetics in Central America: Articulations of Desire in the Work of Patricia Belli"

The event will be held online, and pre-recorded presentations will be circulated in advance to registered attendees (registrations will be limited to 20 attendees). To register, please use the link https://bit.ly/3AJG9w4

Many thanks to www.islaa.org for generously supporting this event.

01/06/2022

**EXTENDED DEADLINE: The submission deadline for the Symposium of Latin American Art has been extended to JANUARY 14.**

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The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Columbia University in the City of New York, and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Sixth Annual Symposium of Latin American Art. “Movement and Presence: The Visual Culture of the Americas” will be held on March 30, 31, and April 1, 2022.
The Symposium will include keynote presentations by Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva and Dr. Diana Taylor, and practice-based methodological workshops (details to be announced in January 2022).

For the full CFP and description of this year's iteration of the Symposium, please visit http://ifalatinamerica.org/symposium/movement-presence-the-visual-culture-of-the-americas/.

Submissions are now due January 14. Please message us for the Spanish and Portuguese versions of the full CFP. We look forward to reviewing your proposals!

12/14/2021

The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Columbia University in the City of New York, and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Sixth Annual Symposium of Latin American Art. “Movement and Presence: The Visual Culture of the Americas” will be held on March 30, 31, and April 1, 2022.

The Symposium will include keynote presentations by Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva and Dr. Diana Taylor, and practice-based methodological workshops (details to be announced in January 2022).

For the full CFP and description of this year's iteration of the Symposium, please visit http://ifalatinamerica.org/symposium/movement-presence-the-visual-culture-of-the-americas/.

Submissions are due January 7. Please message us for the Spanish and Portuguese versions of the CFP. We look forward to reviewing your proposals!

10/11/2021

Join us on Wednesday, October 20th at 6:30 p.m. (EST) for the second South and About! meeting of Fall 2021, where Ph.D. Student in Art History Chasitie Brown (University of Texas at Austin) and Ph.D. Student in Art History Ashleigh Deosaran (Northwestern University) will present their research. To register, please email Martina [email protected]. Thank you for their generous support!

“Affective Forms: Alexis Esquivel’s Sensorial Installations” by Ph.D Student in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin.
Working in a variety of creative modes, ranging from paintings to performances, contemporary Cuban artist Alexis Esquivel is known for challenging Cuban national histories that marginalize the Black presence. This presentation examines such interventions by focusing on his relatively understudied installation, Grand Piano Concert in the Key of Ifá, that presents the lives of historic Black Cuban figures through a multisensorial approach. Commissioned for the 1997 exhibition, Ni Múscios ni Deportistas (Neither Musicians nor Athletes) held at El Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño in Havana, the piece takes part in a larger constellation of artworks that sought to address issues of racial prejudice within a contemporary Cuban context. Curated by Cuban art writer, Ariel Ribeaux, the exhibition was conceived as a continuation of Queloides (I) organized by Esquivel earlier that year in 1997 at Casa de África in Havana. Situating Esquivel’s installation both within his oeuvre as well as the curatorial aims of the exhibition in which it was presented, I argue that the artist upends state narrativized histories of Blackness by employing a multisensorial perspective that engages with sound and touch. Drawing from affect theory, in particular Tina Campt’s conceptualizations of silent images, I demonstrate how this approach serves as a critical intervention into both accessing and creating archives for African Diasporic subjects that defies European epistemologies of knowledge production.

// Alexis Esquivel, Grand Piano Concert in the Key of Ifá, 1997, installation

10/09/2021

Join us on Wednesday, October 20th at 6:30 p.m. (EST) for the second South and About! meeting of Fall 2021, where Ph.D. Student in Art History Chasitie Brown (University of Texas at Austin) and Ph.D. Student in Art History Ashleigh Deosaran (Northwestern University) will present their research. To register, please email Martina [email protected].
Thank you for their generous support!

"(En)Countering Archives from Colonialism to the Digital Age: The Politics of Appropriation and Refutation in the work of Joiri Minaya” by Ashleigh Deosaran, PhD Student, Art History, Northwestern University.
This paper situates the practice of Dominican-American multimedia artist, Joiri Minaya (b.1990), as a counter-hegemonic archive of Caribbean visuality. Minaya's work pushes back against historic and ongoing depictions of Caribbean bodies--land and living, human and non-human-- across centuries-spanning contexts, from colonial-era scientific illustrations to contemporary digital media, particularly with regards to the representation of island women and femmes. Her photography, installations, and performances deconstruct, co-opt, and critique exotifying representations of Caribbean women and trace their antecedents in historically fear-filled and fantastical images of the region and its inhabitants created by and for imperial-colonial domination. Minaya's project encounters and appropriates the signifiers of violent visual regimes in order to reveal and resist them, thus creating a contemporary counter-archive of flesh, fabric, and stone.

// Joiri Minaya, S*x Tourist and Local White Predator Painting in Art History (2 of 4), from Dominican Women Google Search Postcards (series), 2015-present. Digital print on paper (limited edition), 5 x 7 in (12.7 x 17.78 cm). © Joiri Minaya.

10/08/2021

Join us on Wednesday, October 20th at 6:30 p.m. (EST) for the first South and About! meeting of Fall 2021, featuring:
- Ph.D. Student in Art History Chasitie Brown from the University of Texas at Austin, who will present “Affective Forms: Alexis Esquivel’s Sensorial Installations”
- Ph.D. Student in Art History Ashleigh Deosaran from Northwestern University, who will present “(En)Countering Archives from Colonialism to the Digital Age: The Politics of Appropriation and Refutation in the work of Joiri Minaya”
The event will be held online, and pre-recorded presentations will be circulated in advance to registered attendees (registrations will be limited to 20 attendees). To register, please email Martina [email protected].

South & About! is a student-organized research workshop on the arts from Latin America and the Caribbean. This program invites graduate students and emerging scholars in art history and related disciplines to participate in informal discussions amongst their peers. For more information, please visit our website http://ifalatinamerica.org/

Many thanks to the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) for generously supporting this event. www.islaa.org
We are looking forward to seeing you!

09/29/2021

Congratulations to Megan Kincaid and Paulina Caro Troncoso on their presentations 💥 and thank you to all who came to the first South and About of Fall 2021! Stay tuned for the October edition!
Thank you for their support!

09/26/2021

Join us tomorrow, September 27th at 6:30 p.m. (EST) for the first South and About! meeting of Fall 2021, featuring:
- Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art Paulina Caro Troncoso from the University of Edinburgh, who will present “Surrealism & Revolution: Roberto Matta’s Works in Cuba and Chile (1963-1971)”
- Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art Megan Kincaid from The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, who will present “Recasting José Antonio Fernández-Muro: Geometry in Transfer”
The event will be held online, and pre-recorded presentations will be circulated in advance to registered attendees (registrations will be limited to 20 attendees). To register, please write to [email protected].
South & About! is a student-organized research workshop on the arts from Latin America and the Caribbean. This program invites graduate students and emerging scholars in art history and related disciplines to participate in informal discussions amongst their peers. For more information, please visit our website http://ifalatinamerica.org/

Many thanks to the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) for generously supporting this event. www.islaa.org
We are looking forward to seeing you!

09/20/2021

One week away! Join us on Monday, September 27th at 6:30 p.m. (EST) for the first South and About! meeting of Fall 2021, featuring:
- Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art Paulina Caro Troncoso from the University of Edinburgh, who will present “Surrealism & Revolution: Roberto Matta’s Works in Cuba and Chile (1963-1971)”
- Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art Megan Kincaid from The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, who will present “Recasting José Antonio Fernández-Muro: Geometry in Transfer”

The event will be held online, and pre-recorded presentations will be circulated in advance to registered attendees - there are still a few places left! To register, please write to [email protected].

South & About! is a student-organized research workshop on the arts from Latin America and the Caribbean. This program invites graduate students and emerging scholars in art history and related disciplines to participate in informal discussions amongst their peers. For more information, please visit our website http://ifalatinamerica.org/

Many thanks to the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) for generously supporting this event. www.islaa.org
We are looking forward to seeing you!

09/17/2021

Join us on Monday, September 27th at 6:30 p.m. (EST) for the first South and About! meeting of Fall 2021, where Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art Paulina Caro Troncoso (University of Edinburgh) and Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art Megan Kincaid (The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) will present their research. To register, please write to [email protected].

“Surrealism & Revolution: Roberto Matta’s Works in Cuba and Chile (1963-1971)” by Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art Paulina Caro Troncoso from the University of Edinburgh.

Chilean Surrealist artist Roberto Matta (1911-2002) has been recognized as an important figure in both the second generation of Surrealists from the Paris group and in the beginning of the New York School in the 1940s. In Anglophone scholarship, Matta’s oeuvre has been mainly studied within this historical framework, giving little attention to the following decades when the artist made several trips to Latin America and engaged with Third World struggles. Between 1963 and 1971, Matta traveled to Cuba and Chile to participate in initiatives in line with the social, political, and cultural processes that were taking place after the 1959 Cuban Revolution and during Chile’s democratic road to socialism. How could Matta’s works from this period be inscribed in an art historical narrative that embraces the intersection of Surrealism and politics in Latin America? Focusing on a body of work Matta made in Cuba in the 1960s and in Chile in the early 1970s, this paper explores the impact that the aforementioned revolutionary processes had on Matta’s artistic practice.

Roberto Matta, Cuba Is the Capital/Cuba es la capital, 1963, soil and plaster on Masonite, 74 x 1337⁄8 in. (188 x 340 cm). Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.

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