Past Exhibitions

This exhibition highlighted three significant young artists living and working in New York. In varying ways, their painting, sculpture, and drawing reflected the remarkable resilience and relevance that abstract modes of expression maintained at the end of the modernist century.

Casta (caste) paintings were produced in Latin America in the eighteenth century to depict the mixing of the major racial groups-- Indians, Spaniards, and Africans-- that inhabited Spain’s colonies in the New World. This was the first exhibition on this subject to be organized by a cultural institution in the United States.

Americas Society and The Spanish Institute announced the opening of the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States to survey modern and contemporary art from the Dominican Republic.

The Art of Ivory show was comprised of an incomparable collection from the Museu Histórico Nacional of Rio de Janeiro of ivory sculptures created in the Portuguese colonies of India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the seventeenth century, and brought to Brazil in the nineteenth century.

Lola Álvarez Bravo: In Her Own Light was the first significant presentation of the artist’s work in the United States. The exhibition featured 75 of the most stirring and impressive works produced during many stages of her working life.

This major exhibition focused on the development and history of Impressionism as practiced by Canadian artists working in their native country and abroad, between 1885 and 1920.

This was an exhibition of Tomie Ohtake’s large-scale abstract paintings. The Japanese born artist was a leading figure in post-war Brazilian art, developing her career parallel to Abstract Expressionism in the United States and becoming a decisive figure in forging the character of Brazilian painting after the mid-century.

This exhibition featured the work of artists from various parts of the Americas, all of whom used non-traditional modes of photography in order to explore the theme of the body and interpret the human form as a site of ritual, meditation, or transcendental exploration.

Americas Society presented Life in a Boundless Land: The Gaucho Scenes of Juan Manuel Blanes, one of the most formidable talents of nineteenth century Latin American Art.

This exhibition featured some 100 black-and-white photographs by the leading practitioners of the medium working in the southern Andes in the first decades of the twentieth century. These works presented a vibrant image of a nation at the dawn of the modern era – a period in Peru of economic prosperity, social progress and general optimism.