In 1958, an emerging Puerto Rican community was displaced from the Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill neighborhoods to make way for the construction of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Utilizing never before seen archival documents made available to CENTRO by the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts and other archival materials, this exhibit […]
Join Anaida Hernández as she explores her work, La rueda de la fortuna - el sueño americano (1999), on display as part of the exhibition, Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo at the Hunter College East Harlem Gallery. La rueda de la fortuna was part of Hernández solo exhibition […]
Join CENTRO for the opening night of Ida y Vuelta: Art Culture and the Diasporican Experience at the Hunter College East Harlem Gallery on March 30th. The exhibit, whose name translates to Round Trip, Migration Experiences in Contemporary Puerto Rican Art, is curated by Laura Bravo and features 19 Puerto Rican artists whose works respond […]
“Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its present, and the certainty of change, have laid the groundwork for a dialogue and a vision that reaches farther than human eyes can see.” ~- Vicki Goldberg, 125th: Time in Harlem by Isaac […]
Sanctuary City: Three Artists Explore the Refugee Experience in New York City is an exhibition that looks at three artists— Shimon Attie, Catalina Antonio Granados, and Zac Hacmon — who investigate the complicated, nuanced, and unique experience of being a refugee in the United States. Through building personal relationships, each of the exhibiting artists was […]
Hallway Exhibition - Ademola Olugebefola: Afrofuturist While the term Afrofuturism dates only to the 1990s, musicians, writers, playwrights, and painters have been radically reimagining a Black future in outer and other spaces for far longer. Ademola Olugebefola has been at work picturing those spaces, and mapping an African passage from the deep past into deep […]
In Virginia Inés Vergara’s photographic series, Subductions, imagery suggesting geology, landforms, and earthly minerals intersect with her deconstruction of art-historical monuments to create dynamic pictorial works. The exhibition at Hunter East Harlem Gallery is composed of six archival pigment prints presented together for the first time. Her process involves photographing fragments of everyday “flat” textbook […]
Curated by Klaudia Ofwona Draber with associate curator Sofia Ramirez of KODA Organized by KODA and Hunter East Harlem Gallery Lina Puerta: Migration, Nature and the Feminine is a survey exhibition of the artist’s work spanning the last eighteen years and created mostly during her time as an East Harlem resident. The artworks in the […]
Sense Us 2020 is a mixed-media installation of images and text on flattened shipping boxes by artist Nicky Enright. It is a public response to the questions around race on the current 2020 U.S. Census. Created to mimic the aesthetic of protest signs on cardboard and with a symbolically limited palette of black, white, and brown, the installation points to America’s […]
Organized with Americas Society Joaquín Orellana is among the most influential living members of Latin America’s musical avant-garde. Born in Guatemala City in 1930, he studied violin and composition at the National Conservatory of Music in Guatemala and was a fellow at the preeminent Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) at the Instituto Torcuato Di […]
