Museum Collections
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Art Museums of Latin America: structuring representation by Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation states, and promoted particular group ideologies. This collection of essays, arranged in thematic sections, will examine the varying and complex functions of art museums in Latin America: as nation-building institutions and instruments of state cultural politics; as foci for the promotion of Latin American modernities and modernisms; as sites of mediation between local and international, private and public interests; as organizations that negotiate cultural construction within the Latin American diaspora and shape constructs of Latin America and its nations; and as venues for the contestation of elitist and Eurocentric notions of culture and the realization of cultural diversity rooted in multiethnic environments.Publication Date: 2018 online
Selected Museums
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AMA: Art Museum of the Americas. Organization of American States. Established in 1917. Washington, DC"Showcases cutting-edge exhibits of artists whose output creatively combines aesthetics with topical social and political issues." -
CIFO: Cisneros Fontanels Art Foundation. Established in 2002. Miami, FL"Grants and Commissions Program for emerging and mid-career visual artists from Latin America; an exhibitions program showcasing work by Latin American artists and international contemporary art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection." -
El Museo del Barrio. Established in 1975. New York, NY“New York’s leading Latino cultural institution...[for discovering] the artistic landscape of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American cultures…[Its]purpose is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the art and artifacts of Caribbean and Latin American cultures for posterity.” -
LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA“In 1997, the collectors Edith and Bernard Lewin added more than two thousand works by Mexican modernists to the collection, making LACMA one of the main U.S. repositories of Latin American art... ranging from the colonial to the contemporary periods.” -
MOLAA: Museum of Latin American Art. Founded in 1996. Long Beach, CA"dedicated to modern and contemporary Latin American art." -
MoMA: Museum of Modern Art. Manhattan & Queens, NYCType "Latin American" in search box. -
Smithsonian Latino Center. Washington, DCMolino Family Latino Gallery, fall 2021 opening.
This is an important website for researching Latin American and Latino art in the United States. Here you can search the Center’s collections, and explore other Resources.
