CANADA’S LEADING ART FAIR INTRODUCES A SECTION FULLY DEVOTED LATIN AMERICAN ART
Curated by Karen Huber, Arte Sur brings together eleven galleries whose artists engage with memory, territory, craft, and identity.
Art Toronto will host its 26th edition October 23–26, 2025 in downtown Toronto. Since 2000, the fair has supported the Canadian art ecosystem by connecting audiences with local, national and international galleries, and fostering diverse creative practices. The 2025 edition marks the launch of Arte Sur, a new section spotlighting Latin American artistic production within the fair’s main floor.
The initiative features eleven distinguished galleries: Alejandra Topete Gallery (Mexico City), Aninat Galería (Vitacura, Chile), BLOC Art (Lima), Crisis Gallery (Lima), deCERCA (San José, Costa Rica), Judas Galería (Valparaíso, Chile), Isabel Croxatto Galería (Santiago, Chile), PROXYCO Gallery (New York, presenting Latin artists), Subsuelo (Rosario, Argentina), Swivel Gallery (New York, presenting Latin artists) and The White Lodge (Buenos Aires).
Arte Sur is curated by Mexico City–based curator and gallerist Karen Huber, known for championing contemporary Latin American art and building bridges between projects and publics across borders. “I do not wish to confine it [Latin American art] within rigid definitions, as aesthetics today are widely shared across the globe. Yet, to understand the stories behind it—of resistance, territory, politics, contemplation, and identity—is to recognize its profound richness”, she told Art Toronto. “More than ever, what we need is union, alliance, and collaboration—not only among individuals, but across the art world, among cultures, and between fairs. In doing so, we raise our collective voice and are fortunate to be seen and acknowledged within a platform as significant as Art Toronto”, added.
Regarding the participating galleries, Huber explained that each brings a singular voice. The artists embrace craft as a space of freedom and inquiry, developing quiet yet powerful visual languages that bridge the ancestral and the contemporary, the symbolic and the political. She highlighted that many of these practices engage with cosmologies, landscapes and oral histories, navigating preservation and transformation simultaneously.
Summarizing the rationale, Huber concluded: “Latin American art has always carried bold narratives and innovative techniques rooted in diverse histories, geographies, and traditions. The galleries in Arte Sur embody this richness by presenting artists who merge ancestral knowledge with contemporary practices, crafting languages that are both deeply local and globally resonant.”
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