Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this lecture, the artist Bibiana Suarez recounts how a student's question prompted her to consider her own reasons for producing art; including the motivation of greed, which, although ostensibly negative, she considers as a motivator. Suarez [...]

The Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell reports that the Caribbean art community currently receives a great deal of information that used to be hard to find. This prevents the Caribbean artist from being totally isolated. Martorell advocates [...]

Uruguayan critic Luis Camnitzer asserts that access to mainstream trends in art, let alone success on the art market, is difficult for artists from oppressed cultures. In his view, the colonized believe that the passage from a subordinate to a [...]

Victor Alejandro Sorell’s essay is a comprehensive study addressing more than one hundred twentieth-century Chicano and Mexican artists and collectives active between the 1960s and 1990s, including film and performance practitioners and activists, [...]

In this text, artist Bibiana Suarez’s makes a personal statement about her experience as a self-imposed Puerto Rican exile in Chicago, her negotiations of living “on the edge of two cultures,” and her artistic exploration of feelings of loss, [...]

The author discusses her installation entitled Domino/Dominó wherein she used the principles of the domino game as an organizing structure for visual images exploring her own experience of acculturation as a Puerto Rican living in the United States [...]