Notes related to Latin American art

Cristiano Lenhardt was selected for his series of works born from his encounter with the environmental tragedy of the 2024 floods in southern Brazil.

Argentine by origin, the curator and former Director of the Visual Arts Department of the Artists in Berlin Program (DAAD) — a residency that connects creatives from around the world with Germany's cultural scene — has spent years building bridges between Latin American art scenes and the major centers of Western art.

Curated by Diane Lima, the exhibition brings together Adriana Varejão and Rosana Paulino for the first time to rewrite the wounds of colonialism.

What is a Culturally Specific Institution? Director of El Museo del Barrio for over eight years, Patrick Charpenel reflects on the role of museums in the United States, the visibility of Latinx communities, and the challenges of thinking about art beyond fixed categories and market logics.

Vásquez, Rodrigo, Másquez, Verovcha, and Yone Makino transform the space into a living organism. A Special Project that questions what it means to make art in Peru today.

Through a boutique journey, Pinta proposes a true immersion into the cultural landscape of different cities across the continent—an experience designed for collectors, art lovers, and those seeking to expand their networks beyond their own country.

The Brazilian museum presents works by Santiago Yahuarcani and Oscar Muñoz, exploring ancestral knowledge and the fragility of images in Latin America.

A major exhibition at C/O Berlin traces more than five decades of the Mexican photographer’s career, presenting over 250 works including her most iconic series.

Jorge Volpi, after one year as Artistic Director of Contemporánea Condeduque, reflects on programming through a multidisciplinary narrative and how it fosters dialogue while giving Latin American art a central role in Madrid’s cultural scene.

The Jan Mulder Collection showcases the intersections between Latin American tradition and global developments in the field. 

Throughout the year, the British gallery will host exhibitions featuring the works of Chico da Silva, Juli Isídrez, and Francisco Tún.

In a context marked by the debate on immigration in the United States, Joan Jiménez Suero (Perú) has been recognized by the Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA) for a proposal that reflects on the identity, memory, and resistance of the Latin diaspora.

The exhibition in Chicago brings together 36 Latin American artists who, through more than 40 works, challenge colonial narratives through critical, community-based, and resistance-oriented practices.

Today, those who walk through the galleries of the Museum of Modern Art or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York encounter a welcome surprise: canvases of undeniable visual strength hanging alongside figures such as Rothko or Tàpies. These are works by Sarah Grilo, recently acquired by these institutions. Nearly two decades after her passing, the artist has finally assumed the place of honor her career deserved.

The collaboration between the two institutions will promote cultural platforms, professional exchanges, and spaces for dialogue aimed at advancing Latin American art and its international projection.

ARCOmadrid 2026 appears to reinforce its position in the global art market by consolidating a distinctive identity in contrast to the major internationalized art fairs, with Latin America as its anchor. Its capacity to generate cultural and market narratives from this positioning has been key to understanding its current role and evaluating the potential risks of its model.

We propose an overview of Latin American art presented at ARCO through ten proposals that illustrate and outline current tendencies, where critical and experimental perspectives, nature, materiality and organic processes shape different languages through which to address key themes.

Books are published about artists, museums, and collectors—but why not talk about the gallerist, the one who connects them all?

The curated program at ARCOmadrid once again provides a prominent space for Latin American galleries and artists at the fair. With José Esparza Chong Cuy leading the new edition, the program exudes a diversity of approaches and realities, raising questions while simultaneously serving as a key opportunity for visibility.

The Latin American artist draws inspiration from the landscapes of Puerto Rico and those of her adopted home in California to create sculptures that reveal the transformative power of nature.

Fifteen artists from the region will take part in In Minor Keys, the 61st International Art Exhibition opening in Venice in May 2026.

The North American country presents a strong presence of Latin American art on its agenda this year, highlighting both historical and contemporary figures.

The visual culture of the Caribbean and Latin America cannot be understood as a homogeneous or stable system; it is a territory shaped by flows, displacements, and symbolic overlaps in which images not only circulate, but constantly negotiate their meaning. Within this configuration, graphic design occupies a particularly distinctive position, as it does not function merely as a tool of mediation, but rather as a practice of judgment that intervenes in how the region represents, interprets, and projects itself.

The project seeks to promote encounters, exchange, and the creation of networks within the British art ecosystem.

As part of the 2025 Latin American Residency Program, SAE presents a group exhibition that highlights the processes of production, research, and experimentation developed by eight artists in dialogue with Punta Ballena.

The exhibition Antenas al vacío revisits the work of the Mexican artist and expands into a book that addresses contemporary art, experimental cinema, and Latin American visual thought.

Let’s Play. Juguemos en la colección, a BIENALSUR project, engages with the permanent collection of the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas through the conceptual lens of play, featuring the work of ten artists, mostly from Latin America, including Marta Minujín, Glenda León, and Silvia Rivas.

The museum explores the construction of the region’s identity through a major group exhibition and solo presentations by Jesús Soto, Damián Ortega, Sandra Gamarra, La Chola Poblete, among other artists.

The 82nd edition brings together 56 artists and collectives in an exhibition that privileges atmosphere, sensibility, and contemporary forms of coexistence. Within this framework, Latin American artists play a key role, weaving together memory, technology, body, and territory.

In its 2025 edition, the fair unfolds a terrain of questions and encounters. Curated by Juan Canela, NEXT proposes pairings of artists and galleries that explore how we inhabit, name, and imagine the region, articulating new ways of thinking about the contemporary from Latin America and the Caribbean.