Topic: Puerto Rican Art

Ten brightly colored textile works hung with clothespins on stacked clotheslines that form four rows across two adjacent walls.

A Pedagogy of Hope: Pagán and Pietri in Nitza Tufiño’s Tenderete

Teréz Iacovino

Two hospital beds form part of an art installation. A video monitor showing a patient telling their story rests on each bed. Behind the bed, a whiteboard displays handwritten notes about each patient’s illness.

Pepón Osorio’s Convalescence: Reimagining the Teaching Hospital

Megan Voeller

Two red Schwinn bicycles bearing American and Puerto Rican flags are connected by a shared back wheel and face opposing directions. They are positioned in front of a pale blue neon sign reading “Pa-lan-te”.

Riding in Place: Miguel Luciano’s Double Phantom/EntroP.R., (Un)tethered Diasporas, and Anti-Colonialism

Anna Indych-López

A jaguar statue sits atop a tri-fold display covered in black fur with framed black and white images to the right and left of a middle section that includes an assortment of books, human remains, and other objects dipped in blood and gold.

Genesis and Apocalypse in Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s The Memorial…

Néstor David Pastor López

Casa-Isla/House-Island: Edra Soto’s Reimagining of Insularity

Elizabeth Mirabal

Radical Occupation, Strategic Trespass: Candida Alvarez’s Painterly Disorientations

Matt Morris

Colonial Atmospheres: On Sofía Gallisá Muriente’s Celaje

Maria Zazzarino

Arteology as Living History: Diógenes Ballester’s Counternarratives to Coloniality

Carlos Rivera Santana

Turn away, towards, and unfurl: on the Work of Juan Sánchez

Alexandra Méndez García