25 plus 25 | MOLAA+AltaMed
Co-Curated by Gabriela Urtiaga, MOLAA Chief Curator,
and
Susana Smith Bautista, Ph.D., Director and Chief Curator of the AltaMed Art Collection
The Museum of Latin American Art – MOLAA - has the great honor of celebrating its first 25 years of life. Its first 25 years of history as a pioneering and unique institution of its kind, here in the United States, advocate and generator of knowledge and dissemination of modern and contemporary Latino and Latin American art. And under the title 25 plus 25 we commemorate that milestone with a group exhibition and a collaborative project that focuses on different questions around the idea of the future, through four thematic axes - Migration, Mother Nature, Encounters and Dreaming -, which propose new ways of seeing and thinking about the world.
This exhibition brings together works by 50 artists from different generations and within the framework of the following celebrations of our Museum, we invite you to generate a rich dialogue from the MOLAA Collection with one of the most important and influential private collections in Los Angeles, the AltaMed Art Collection whose founder, Cástulo de La Rocha, has been and is one of the main promoters of Mexican-American art, Chicano/a and Latino/a/x art in California.
In this exchange of ideas and expressions, in search of new meanings, today we present a selection of outstanding artists. For some artists, it will be the first time exhibiting together and who invite us to think and contemplate our present but especially to think about our future in Society through art, generating new questions to continue a conversation that involves us all.
— Gabriela Urtiaga, MOLAA Chief Curator
Visit a selection of the artworks in each curatorial axis:
Participating artists:
Alejandro Leyva (b. 1968, Cuba)
Alejandro Otero (1921-1990, Venezuela)
Ana Serrano (b. 1983, Los Angeles, CA)
Cristina Fresca (1962, Argentina)
Daniela Riojas (1989, USA)
Darío Escobar (1971, Guatemala)
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974, Mexico)
Eloy Torrez (b. 1954, Albuquerque, NM)
Emmanuel Crespo (b. 1977, Quezon City, Philippines)
Enrique Grau (1920-2004, Colombia)
Esterio Segura (1970, Cuba)
Favianna Rodríguez (b. 1978, East Oakland, CA)
Felix Quintana (b. 1991, Lynwood, CA)
Fernando Botero (1932, Colombia)
Francisco Zuñiga (1912, Costa Rica - 1998, Mexico)
Graciela Iturbide (b. 1942, Mexico City, Mexico)
Guillermo Trujillo (1927, Panama)
Ingrid Hernández (1974, Mexico)
Ismael Vargas (b. 1947, Guadalajara, Mexico)
Jay Lynn Gomez (Ramiro Gomez) (1986, USA)
Jean Charlot (1898-1979, Mexico)
Jef Huereque (b. 1953)
John Valadez (b. 1951, East Los Angeles, CA)
José Gurvich (1927-1974, Uruguay)
José Ramírez (b. 1969, East Los Angeles, CA)
Judith Gutiérrez (1927-2003, Ecuador)
Judithe Hernández (1948, USA)
Judy Baca (b. 1946, Los Angeles, CA)
Kim Abeles (b. 1952, Richmond Heights, Missouri)
Leónidas Correa (1965, Nicaragua)
Lina Espinosa (1964, Colombia)
Linda Vallejo (b. 1951, East Los Angeles, CA)
Lucia Maya (1953, USA/Mexico)
Luciano Martínez (Texas)
Luis Genaro García (b. 1978, South Los Angeles, CA)
Man One (Alejandro Poli, Jr.) (b. 1971, East Los Angeles, CA)
Matías Duville (1974, Argentina)
Ofelia Esparza (b. 1932, Los Angeles, CA)
Patrick Martínez (b. 1980, Pasadena, CA)
Patssi Valdez (1951, USA)
Ramses Noriega (b. 1944, Sonora, Mexico)
Robert Pruitt (b. 1975, Houston, TX)
Roberto Gil de Montes (b. 1950, Guadalajara, Mexico)
Rodolfo Morales (1925-2001, Mexico)
Rufino Tamayo (1899 - 1991, Mexico)
Tony Bechara (1942, Puerto Rico)
Wayne Alaniz Healy (b. 1946, Santa Barbara, CA)
Wifredo Lam (1902-1982, Cuba)