Latine/Latin American Artist Showcase

Figurative artist who was associated with Nuevo Realismo (an Argentine extension of social realism)

Conceptual and performance artist

Considered one of the most important Latin American artists of the twentieth century for her abstract gestural paintings

Artist, author, entertainer, and real estate expert who specializes in abstract surrealist art and cubism

An Aymara painter and printmaker who left the public spotlight after being awarded (but not claiming) the Guggenheim Fellowship

Visual artist, performer, curator and researcher who focuses on the fields of archaeology and Indigenous and African slavery in the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests

Sculptor and architect whose works are considered some of the best examples of Portuguese colonial architecture in Brazil

Photographer who documented marginalized communities (i.e., sex workers, psychiatric patients, and circus performers) during the military dictatorship of Chile

Painter, sculptor, critic, curator and art historian associated with Pop Art. She is best known for her bright and colorful paintings depicting life during La Violencia.

Visual artists and sculptor who incorporates the banal aspects of life, such as wooden furniture and grass

Known for his signature style,"Boterismo," which depicts figures in a large, exaggerated volume (depending on the piece this can be for humor or political criticism)

Sculptor who creates works that highlight the development of organic forms modified by the environment, the force of gravity and growth, and influences of pre-Columbian art

Painter and cultural promoter who was known as the first female watercolorist of Costa Rica

Performance artist, sculptor, painter, and video artist best known for her "earth-body" artwork

Artist who sought to showcase the Afro-Cuban spirit and culture

Fused post-Impressionists influences from Europe with Caribbean flares as a painter, educator, and feminist activist

Photographer who infused humorous elements to respond to darker conflicts

She, alongside other female artists, formed part of the Guayaquil School for Contemporary Plastic Arts and was active in militant groups (i.e. Union of the Women of Guayas)

Originally Choussy wanted to become a priest but his passion for art led him to pursue a career in art where he interwove his idealist, spiritual beliefs

Visual artist and poet who primarily presents her work through performance and body art. She deconstructs social violence and injustices related to gender and racial discrimination through her works.

Haitian-American anthropologist, feminist, poet, performance artist and activist

Known as the "Grand Maître of Haitian Art," Hyppolite was also a third generation Vodou priest, or houngan

A metal sculptor with a highly experimental style, often focusing on multi-faceted and conjoined figures, fantastically personified elements, and unborn babies visible within larger creatures

Street artists who takes iconic art pieces, such as the Mona Lisa, and adds vivid and distinct firearms to protest gun violence

A purveyor of Mexican muralism

Made many portraits and self-portraits inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico

Performance artist, writer, activist, and educator.

Polymath, a painter who used Mexican geography as a symbol of national identity

Central figure of 20th century Nicaraguan painting and founder of Praxis, an influential group of young intellectuals and artists

Folk artist who specialized in embroidery, music, and painting

Priest, poet, and activist who established an alternative religious community on the Solentiname archipelago. This utopian experiment was an artists' colony that functioned on pillars of social equality and communal sharing.

Political cartoonist and illustrator who was forced to flee in the 1980s during the Nicaraguan Civil War

Impressionist painter known as "The Pallete Knife Master," although he was also skilled in watercolor

Visual artist who often worked in various textile mediums (crochet, embroidery, knitting, and blanket-making)

Quechua artist who was the leader of the Cusco school of painting, a Roman Catholic artistic movement based in Cusco during the Colonial period

Known for his costumbrista (pictorial interpretation of local everyday life, mannerisms, and customs particularly in the 19th century) watercolors

One of the last members of the Cusco School of painting which included the teaching of religious art to the Peruvian population by Spanish artists; however, Zapata introduced Peruvian elements to his works.

Often touted as the only Latin American artist to participate in Impressionism

Painter, sculptor, muralist, novelist, writer, teacher, and theorist who emigrated to Catalunya, Spain as a young man and embraced the Catalan identity

His paintings range from highly dramatic to impressionistic in style

Abstract sculptor and painter who became associated with Tachisme in her later artistic works