Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Cuban novelist Zoe Valdés pays homage to the work of Dominican artist Darío Suro. Transformed into a perceptive art critic while still displaying her lyrical gift as a fiction writer, Valdés gives literary form to Suro’s art, which she sees as a [...]

This article by Dominican art critic and curator, Sara Hermann, provides an overview of Darío Suro’s lifetime of artistic production and his legacy to modern and contemporary Dominican art. The author emphasizes the three most noteworthy aspects [...]

Federico Suro—a journalist and former diplomat who is the son of the artist, Darío Suro—wrote this essay. Anecdotal in tone, this article offers many insights into the artist’s almost obsessive approach to drawing, which he called the “life- [...]

This article by Gustavo Valdés, Jr. serves as a review of the final phase (1990–97) of the work of Dominican painter Darío Suro, emphasizing its fierce and iconoclastic form of expressionism, particularly with regard to his depictions of the self [...]

This essay by art critic Laura Gil Fiallo posthumously explores the creation of imagery in Darío Suro’s art that captured the multi-dimensionality of Dominican and Caribbean art. She thus emphasizes the existential quality of Suro’s style, its [...]

In this brief and posthumous profile of Dominican artist Darío Suro, critic and art historian Marianne de Tolentino starts by recounting the affectionate link she had with him and how her professional trajectory was marked by Suro’s mentoring and [...]

This is an obituary essay by Alejandro Anreus on the Dominican painter Darío Suro (1918–97). A former student of Diego Rivera and Manuel Rodríguez Lozano during his stay in Mexico in the 1940s, Suro’s trajectory as a painter—evolving from [...]