El Museo del Barrio has announced the artist list for its upcoming triennial, entitled “Flow States,” which is scheduled to open on October 10th. For its second edition, expanding on the idea of Latinx diaspora and hybrid identity, the triennial will focus on artists considering migration and ideas of belonging. Participants work across the greater Latinx diaspora, with the selection broadening El Museo’s focus on artists in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Americas and the Caribbean more broadly, to include artists from Europe and Asia. The show has been curated by El Museo del Barrio’s chief curator Rodrigo Moura, curator Susanna V. Temkin, and guest curator María Elena Ortiz.
“For the second edition of La Trienal, we have broadened the geographic scope to emphasize the multiplicity of the Latinx cultural experience as a lens to frame the contemporary artistic landscape. Importantly, this edition acknowledges the resonances and connections among Latinx, Filipinx, Caribbean, and Indigenous identities,” said Moura.
The first edition of La Trienal, entitled “ESTAMOS BIEN,” took place in 2020–21, and was the first large-scale survey of contemporary Latinx art in the U.S.
The artists included in the exhibition are as follows:
- Carmen Argote, b. 1981, Guadalajara, Mexico; lives and works in Los Angeles
- Hellen Ascoli, b. 1984, Guatemala City; lives and works in Baltimore
- Esteban Cabeza de Baca, b. 1985, San Ysidro, California; lives and works in New York and the Southwestern United States
- Widline Cadet, b. 1992, Pétion-Ville, Ayiti; lives and works in Los Angeles
- Liz Cohen, b. 1973, Phoenix; lives and works in Phoenix
- Tony Cruz Pabón, b. 1977, Puerto Rico; lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Lance De Los Reyes, b.1977, Houston; d. 2021, New York
- Christina Fernandez, b. 1965, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles
- Verónica Gaona, b. 1994, Brownsville, Texas; lives and works in Houston
- Roberto Gil de Montes, b. 1950, Guadalajara; lives and works in Nayarit, Mexico
- Maria A. Guzmán Capron, b. 1981, Milan; lives and works in Oakland, California
- Madeline Jiménez Santil, b. 1986, Santo Domingo; lives and works in Mexico City, and Santo Domingo
- Caroline Kent, b. 1975, Sterling, Illinois; lives and works in Chicago
- Koyoltzintli, b. 1983, New York; lives and works in New Jersey
- Anina Major, b. 1981, Nassau, Bahamas; lives and works in New York
- Mario Martinez, b. 1953, Penjamo, Scottsdale, Arizona; lives and works in New York
- Mark Menjívar b. 1980, Virginia; lives and works in San Antonio
- Karyn Olivier, b. 1968, Trinidad and Tobago; lives and works in Philadelphia
- Alina Perez, b. 1995, Miami; lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut
- Carlos Reyes, b. 1977, Chicago; lives and works in New York, and Caguas, Puerto Rico
