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    The Institute for Studies on Latin

    American Art (ISLAA) supports the study

    and visibility of Latin American art.

    Event
    Fall Opening Reception

    Join us to celebrate the opening of our fall exhibitions on September 6

    Exhibition
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    Marcia Schvartz: Power in Looking Back

    This focused survey presents Argentine artist Marcia Schvartz's portraits from the 1970s to 1990s

    Exhibition
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    Violaciones Domésticas: Feminist Constellations in 1990s Argentina

    Featuring work by Alicia Herrero, Ana López, and Cristina Schiavi, this exhibition revists the 1994 exhibition Violaciones Domésticas in the context of feminist art in 1990s Argentina

    Event
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    2025 ISLAA Plataforma Forum Keynote: Dr. Claudia Mattos Avolese

    New Lecture at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)

    Event

    Fall Opening Reception

    Join us for an opening reception for our fall exhibitions on September 6

    On Now:
    Sep 6, 2025 → Dec 20, 2025
    09.06.25 → 12.20.25
    Exhibition

    Marcia Schvartz: Power in Looking Back

    This focused survey will present Argentine artist Marcia Schvartz's portraits from the 1970s to 1990s.

    On Now:
    Sep 6, 2025 → Dec 20, 2025
    09.06.25 → 12.20.25
    Exhibition

    Violaciones Domésticas: Feminist Constellations in 1990s Argentina

    Featuring work by Ana López, Alicia Herrero, and Cristina Schiavi, this exhibition explores the 1994 exhibition Violaciones Domésticas within the context of feminist art in Argentina.

    On Now:
    Nov 17, 202511.17.25
    Event

    2025 ISLAA Plataforma Forum Keynote: Dr. Claudia Mattos Avolese

    EXHIBITIONS

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    Magali Lara: Stitched to the Body
    ISLAA
    Apr 26, 2025 - Aug 16, 2025
    Artist: Magali Lara
    Threads to the South
    ISLAA
    Mar 28, 2024 - Jul 27, 2024
    Artist: Olga de Amaral
    Duke House Exhibition Series
    Kenneth Kemble and Silvia Torras: The Formative Years, 1956–63
    IFA
    Feb 23, 2022 - May 27, 2022
    Artist: Kenneth Kemble
    Art Movements: Informalism
    Felipe Ehrenberg: Testamento
    ISLAA
    May 20, 2021 - Aug 7, 2021
    Artist: Felipe Ehrenberg
    Art Movements: Mail art
    BASTA! An Exhibition about Art and Violence in Latin America
    CUNY
    May 5, 2016 - Jul 15, 2016
    Artist: Ivan Argote

    RESEARCH

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    Writer in Residence
    Poetics of the Body and Language in CAYC’s Audiovisual Archives

    Emilia Casiva examines the "gestures" or "traits" in CAYC films, uncovering their spectral imagery and proposing a method to engage with them through the fragmented lens of the archive as a constructed entity.

    ENG
    ESP
    Writer in Residence
    Temporality and Technics in Margarita Paksa's Tiempo de descuento

    Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra analyzes Margarita Paksa's performative video and poem Tiempo de descuento-cuenta regresiva-la hora cero, commissioned by CAYC in 1978. Polgovsky Ezcurra situates this work within CAYC’s broader video production, reflecting in particular on the place of women artists within the institution.

    Writer in Residence
    Sociotechnical Impetus: CAYC’s Audiovisual Assemblages

    Renato Bermúdez Dini discusses the CAYC films through the lens of its audiovisual assemblages, referring not only to CAYC’s own production but also to its promotion of other artists, including the events it organized, its marketing and editorial strategies, and its public relations efforts, as well as its material conditions and its discursive framework.

    ENG
    ESP
    Writer in Residence
    Transparency and Feminist Revision in Anna Bella Geiger’s Artist’s Books

    ISLAA Writer in Residence Maggie Borowitz analyzes how Anna Bella Geiger's use of transparency in her artist books reveals an early engagement with feminism in contemporary Brazilian art.

    Writer in Residence
    A Creative Form of Expansion: Non-Objectualism and Anna Bella Geiger’s Artist’s Notebooks (1974–77)

    ISLAA Writer in Residence Jorge Lopera discusses Anna Bella Geiger's notebooks as forms of creative expansion characteristic of non-objectualisms in Latin America.

    Writer in Residence
    Matters of Process and Techniques of Control: The Luis Fernando Benedit Papers, 1960–1978

    The Luis Fernando Benedit Archive represents the artist’s activities across a range of media, from figurative painting to habitats for live animals. His notebooks, plans, and sketches also show an abiding concern with problems of process and transformation. When viewed in conjunction, these documents and works provide an opportunity to reexamine some of his contributions to debates concerning the relations between culture, nature, and technology.

    Re: Collection
    A Universal Language and an Unrealized European Tour: Grupo de Artistas Modernos de la Argentina

    Art historian Laura Bohnenblust excavates correspondence and ephemera to reconstruct a forgotten historical moment in which the Grupo de Artistas Modernos de la Argentina made their European debut.

    From the Desk of. . .
    Desire, Mystery, Devotion: On Mariette Lydis’s Trajectory

    Georgina Gluzman reviews the career of Mariette Lydis while reflecting on the artist's role as the narrator of her own trajectory.

    ENG
    ESP
    From the Desk of. . .
    Time in Motion: An Approach to Gustavo Bruzzone’s More Than Four Hundred Hours of Filming Toward the End of the Century

    Agustina Battezzati analyzes Argentine art collector Gustavo Bruzzone's filming of the Argentine art scene in the late 1990s. A digital copy of this footage is held at the ISLAA Library and Archives.

    ENG
    ESP
    Writer in Residence
    Desire, Deferral, and the Failings of Filmic Representation—"Trans" (1982)

    ISLAA Writer in Residence Joseph Shaikewitz examines the paradoxes concerning perception and representation, subjectivity and objectification, at play in the 1982 Venezuelan documentary film Trans.

    Re: Collection
    A Dance of Bodies and Machines: Leopoldo Maler’s Crane Ballet

    Art historian Agustín Díez Fischer examines bodily extension and mediated reconstruction in a choreographic work by Argentine conceptual artist Leopoldo Maler.

    ENG
    ESP
    Re: Collection
    Notes on Latin American Graphic Design, Artes Gráficas, Typography, and Printed Matter from the ISLAA Library and Archives

    2022–23 Graphic Designer in Residence Ramon Tejada muses on the multiplicity of perspectives on Latin American graphic design represented within the ISLAA Library and Archives.

    ENG
    ESP

    CALENDAR

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    On Now:
    Aug 22 → Nov 10
    08.22 → 11.10
    MALBA
    Ulises Beisso. Mi mundo privado
    On Now:
    Sep 06 → Dec 20
    09.06 → 12.20
    ISLAA

    This focused survey will present Argentine artist Marcia Schvartz's portraits from the 1970s to 1990s.

    Marcia Schvartz: Power in Looking Back
    On Now:
    Sep 06 → Sep 06
    09.06 → 09.06
    ISLAA

    Join us for an opening reception for our fall exhibitions on September 6

    Fall Opening Reception
    On Now:
    Sep 06 → Dec 20
    09.06 → 12.20
    ISLAA

    Featuring work by Ana López, Alicia Herrero, and Cristina Schiavi, this exhibition explores the 1994 exhibition Violaciones Domésticas within the context of feminist art in Argentina.

    Violaciones Domésticas: Feminist Constellations in 1990s Argentina
    On Now:
    Oct 1610.16
    Hunter College
    Public Opening Reception for Artes Visuales: The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print
    On Now:
    Nov 0711.07
    Wallach Art Gallery - Columbia University
    Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces
    On Now:
    Nov 1711.17
    2025 ISLAA Plataforma Forum Keynote: Dr. Claudia Mattos Avolese

    PUBLICATIONS

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    Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela
    UC Press
    An Exhibition History of Latin American Art
    ISLAA
    Life as Activity: David Lamelas
    Hunter College
    Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America
    UC Press

    FILMS

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    270 Film Series
    270.01—Liliana Porter and Man with Axe: Fragments of a Conversation with Julio Grinblatt

    Directed by Julio Grinblatt, Liliana Porter and Man with Axe: Fragments of Conversation with Julio Grinblatt on the Work 'Man with Axe' and Other Brief Situations, 2018, features the Argentine artist Liliana Porter discussing her installation, El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves (Man with Axe and Other Brief Situations), 2014–2017.

    270 Film Series
    270.02—Nicolás Guagnini: Self-Portrait with Cucumber / Autorretrato con pepino

    270.02 documents artist Nicolás Guagnini's engagement with self-portraiture and autobiography, two forms defined by the imbrication of intimacy and publicity, the subject and the social.

    270 Film Series
    270.03—Mónica Mayer: Doña Lilia

    Directed by Magali Lara, Mónica Mayer: Doña Lilia, 2021, showcases the work of Mexican artist Mónica Mayer and her homage to her mother, Doña Lilia.

    270 Film Series
    270.04— Marcia Schvartz: Ojo

    Directed by Ana López, Marcia Schvartz: Ojo spotlights the creative process of Argentine artist Marcia Schvartz.

    270 Film Series
    270.05—Eduardo Costa: Soy un cura del pueblo

    Directed by Claudia Del Río, Eduardo Costa: Soy un cura del pueblo (I’m a Small Town Priest), 2021–22, highlights the poetry in Argentine artist Eduardo Costa’s everyday life.

    270 Film Series
    270.06—Ernesto Vila

    Directed by Alejandro Cesarco and Irina Raffo, Ernesto Vila is an intimate portrait of the Uruguayan visual artist Ernesto Vila and the inspiration he finds in his homeland.

    270 Film Series
    270.07—Clemente Padín

    Directed by Alejandro Cesarco and Irina Raffo, Clemente Padín, documents the Uruguayan artist Clemente Padín’s reading of Memoria Viva, which he considers one of the most important performances of his career.

    270 Film Series
    270.08—Marcelo Pombo: El silencio no existe

    Directed by Alberto Goldenstein, Marcelo Pombo: El silencio no existe, 2022, documents the Argentine artist Marcelo Pombo’s sensory approach to making images.

    270 Film Series
    270.09—Mondongo: No me arrepiento de este amor

    Directed by Guillermo Iuso, Mondongo: No me arrepiento de este amor (Mondongo: I Do Not Regret This Love), 2022, documents the practice of the Argentine artist group Mondongo, consisting of Agustina Picasso, Juliana Laffitte, and Manuel Mendanha.

    270 Film Series
    270.10—Naomi Rincón Gallardo: Coyolxauhqui Imperative

    Directed by Magali Lara, Coyolxauhqui Imperative, 2022, features the multidisciplinary Mexican artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo examining her interest in Mesoamerican ways of knowing.

    270 Film Series
    270.11—Rolando Peña: Sembrando el Petróleo

    Directed by K.ari.n Schneider, Rolando Peña: Sembrando el Petróleo, (Rolando Peña: Sowing the Oil), 2022, highlights the ecological origins of the work of Venezuelan conceptual artist Rolando Peña.

    270 Film Series
    270.12—Luis Camnitzer: Arte, estado y no he estado

    Directed by Albertina Carri, Luis Camnitzer: Arte, estado y no he estado, 2022, follows the Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer around his home as he contemplates the relationship between art and education and its relationship to the future.

    270 Film Series
    270.13—Muriel Hasbun: to tell your story in pieces, as it is

    Directed by Erina Duganne, Muriel Hasbun: to tell your story in pieces, as it is, 2022–23, traces the memories of Salvadoran artist Muriel Hasbun through her photographic work.

    270 Film Series
    270.14—Ana Tiscornia: Cartografía del olvido

    Directed by Julio Grinblatt, Ana Tiscornia: Cartografía del olvido (Cartography of Oblivion), 2022, features Uruguayan artist Ana Tiscornia in her studio as she creates work that acts as a vehicle between architecture and destruction.

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    The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) advances the study and visibility of Latin American art through exhibitions, research, and education. Our gallery is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, from 12 to 6 PM. We are closed on Sundays and Mondays. For private appointments, group visits, or research inquiries, please contact us at info@islaa.org. We look forward to welcoming you.

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    New York, NY 10013

    Tribeca
    142 Franklin Street
    New York, NY 10013

    The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) advances the study and visibility of Latin American art through exhibitions, research, and education. Our gallery is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, from 12 to 6 PM. We are closed on Sundays and Mondays. For private appointments, group visits, or research inquiries, please contact us at info@islaa.org. We look forward to welcoming you.

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