LatinXAmerican is an intergenerational group exhibition featuring nearly 40 Latinx artists from Chicago and beyond. The exhibition assesses the presence and absence of Latinx artists in DePaul Art Museum’s collection, and reflects efforts to build in this area as part of a multi-year initiative to increase the visibility of Latinx artists and voices in museums, working towards equity and lasting transformation. Occupying all of the museum’s galleries, LatinXAmerican includes photographs, paintings, works on paper, sculptures, textiles, videos, and installations primarily drawn from DPAM’s collection, including several recent acquisitions, as well as new works from artists living throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
LatinXAmerican es una exposición grupal que se expande por varias generaciones e incluye a casi 40 artistas latinxs de Chicago y otras regiones. Esta exposición evalúa la presencia y la ausencia de lxs artistas latinxs en la colección del DePaul Art Museum, y refleja los esfuerzos de mejorarla como parte de una iniciativa de varios años que tiene por fin incrementar la visibilidades de lxs artistas y las voces latinxs en los museos, con el fin de acercarse a la equidad y a una transformación verdadera. LatinXAmerican ocupa todas las galerías de nuestro museo e incluye fotografías, pinturas, obras en papel, esculturas, textiles, videos e instalaciones tomados principalmente de la colección del dpam, esto incluye varias adquisiciones recientes, así como obras nuevas de artistas que viven en diversas partes de Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico.
Featured artists include Alberto Aguilar, Tanya Aguiñiga, Candida Alvarez, Susy Bielak, Enrique Chagoya, Carlos Cortez, Karen Dana, Nicolás de Jesús, Claudio Dicochea, Salvador Dominguez, Dianna Frid, Maria Gaspar, Ester Hernández, Benito Huerta, Graciela Iturbide, Marisa Morán Jahn, Las Nietas de Nonó, Gala Porras-Kim, Luis Jiménez, Alejandro Jiménez-Flores, Salvador Jiménez-Flores, Caroline Kent, Sam Kirk, Rodrigo Lara, Melissa Leandro, José Lerma, Nicole Marroquin, Alfredo Martinez, Yvette Mayorga, Harold Mendez, Vik Muniz, Ramón Miranda Beltrán, Errol Ortiz, Diana Solis, Edra Soto, Vincent Valdez, Derek Webster, and Mario Ybarra, Jr.
LatinXAmerican was organized by current and former museum staff and student interns:
Ionit Behar, Assistant Curator; Elyse Bluestone, Collection and Exhibition Intern; Mia Lopez, Assistant Curator; David Maruzzella, Curatorial Intern; Jade Ryerson, Arthur James Museum Studies Fellow, of DePaul Art Museum; and, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Director, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Generous support for this exhibition and its related programming is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.