El Museo del Barrio Reveals Artists for Second La Trienal

New York’sEl Museo del Barriohas named the thirty-three artists who will be participating in the upcoming La Trienal. The event is the second edition of the triennial, which itself arose in 2020 from the ashes of the biennial exhibition inaugurated in 1999 as “The (S) Files” and known since 2013 as La Bienal. Where the earlier triennial, “Estamos bien– La Trienal 20/21,” focused on Latinx artists living and working in the United States, the forthcoming iteration, “Flow States – La Trienal 2024,” takes a global purview.

“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 Rodrigo Moura, El Museo del Barrio’s chief curator, in a statement. Moura will curate the triennial alongside curator Susanna V. Temkin, his colleague at the museum, and guest curator María Elena Ortiz, a curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

The participating artists hail from such diverse locales as El Salvador, Scotland, and the Philippines and range in age from twenty-nine to ninety-five. Among the artists included are photographer Widline Cadet, whose work investigates issues of migration and visibility; painter Roberto Gil de Montes, who incorporates pre-Columbian and Indigenous Huichol iconography into works depicting young men in frequently fantastical settings; and sculptor Ser Serpas, known for her work with found objects.

“This exhibition validates Latinx art, focusing on its diasporic realities to expand on the mainstream notion of Latino,” said Ortiz in a statement. “Breaking away from national boundaries, it is an opportunity to admire the work of emerging voices, celebrate underrepresented artists, and include other narratives into the discourse.”

La Trienal is set to take place October 10, 2024–February 9, 2025. A full list of participating artists is below.

Carmen Argoteb. 1981, Guadalajara, Mexico; lives and works in Los Angeles

Hellen Ascoli b. 1984, Guatemala City, Guatemala; lives and works in Baltimore 

Esteban Cabeza de Baca b. 1985, San Ysidro, California; lives and works in Queens, NY, 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, Mexico; lives and works in Nayarit, Mexico

Maria A. Guzmán Capron b. 1981, Milan; lives and works in Oakland, CA 

Madeline Jiménez Santil b. 1986, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; lives and works in Mexico City and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 

Caroline Kent b. 1975, Sterling, IL; 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, AZ; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

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 

Carlos Reyes b. 1977, Chicago; lives and works in New York and Caguas, Puerto Rico

Gadiel Rivera-Herrera b. 1963, San Juan, Puerto Rico; lives and works in San Juan

Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya b. 1989, Parral, Mexico; nomad 

Norberto Roldan b. 1953, Roxas City, Philippines; lives and works in Roxas City 

Sarah Rosalena b. 1982, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles

Ser Serpas b. 1995, Los Angeles; lives and works in New York 

Chaveli Sifre b. 1987, Würzburg, Germany; lives and works in Berlin 

Kathia St. Hilaire b. 1995, Palm Beach, FL; lives and works in New York 

Studio Lenca based in Margate, England 

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess b. 1929, Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Venice, CA

Sarita Westrup b. 1989, Edinburg, Texas; lives and works in Dallas and Penland, NC 

Alberta Whittle b. 1980, Bridgetown, Barbados; lives and works in Glasgow

Cosmo Whyte b. 1982, St. Andrews, Jamaica; lives and works in Los Angeles 

Joe Zaldivar b. 1990, Rosemead, California; lives and works in Los Angeles