Curated by Bridget R. Cooks, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies and the Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine. Exhibition and tour organized by Sarah Watson, Chief Curator, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York in collaboration with the University Art Galleries at UC Irvine, Palo Alto Art Center, and Art Galleries […]
Hallway Exhibition - Ademola Olugebefola: Afrofuturist While the term Afrofuturism dates only to the 1990s, musicians, writers, playwrights, and painters have been radically reimagining a Black future in outer and other spaces for far longer. Ademola Olugebefola has been at work picturing those spaces, and mapping an African passage from the deep past into deep […]
Sanctuary City: Three Artists Explore the Refugee Experience in New York City is an exhibition that looks at three artists— Shimon Attie, Catalina Antonio Granados, and Zac Hacmon — who investigate the complicated, nuanced, and unique experience of being a refugee in the United States. Through building personal relationships, each of the exhibiting artists was […]
“Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its present, and the certainty of change, have laid the groundwork for a dialogue and a vision that reaches farther than human eyes can see.” ~- Vicki Goldberg, 125th: Time in Harlem by Isaac […]
Thomas Hunter Project Space is pleased to present Animal of Frailty and Firmness, a solo exhibition of new works by Xiong Wei. The exhibition features two body-scale sculptures and a series of related small sculptures by the artist: Gregarious Old Lords, a plaster figuration atop a pedestal which with careful inspection deviates and rejects many […]
The Hunter College BFA Program and the Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present the Fall 2022 BFA Degree Exhibition at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, December 14, 2022 through January 8, 2023. The exhibition will feature works by Vie Darling, Ula Movchan, Macy Rajacich, and Hannah Westerman. The gallery is free and […]
Join CENTRO & The Whitney for a FREE community viewing of the exhibition, “no existe un mundo poshuracan”: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, on February 2nd from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM. The exhibition, on display at the Whitney Museum of Art from November 23rd, 2022 – April 23rd 2023, explores […]
Join CENTRO for the opening night of Ida y Vuelta: Art Culture and the Diasporican Experience at the Hunter College East Harlem Gallery on March 30th. The exhibit, whose name translates to Round Trip, Migration Experiences in Contemporary Puerto Rican Art, is curated by Laura Bravo and features 19 Puerto Rican artists whose works respond […]
Join Anaida Hernández as she explores her work, La rueda de la fortuna - el sueño americano (1999), on display as part of the exhibition, Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo at the Hunter College East Harlem Gallery. La rueda de la fortuna was part of Hernández solo exhibition […]
Looking for a new book to read? Look no further! Join us for another Library & Archives Lunch Hour on new books in Puerto Rican Studies. The field of Puerto Rican studies is rich and diverse in both its subject matter and those who write about it, and there's something for everyone this lunch hour. […]
