MONICA ESPINEL

Discover artworks that address the personal, political, and sacred with hearts on fire @ MoMA Magazine https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/1041

“Embodying the Abject: María Evelia Marmolejo’s Anónimo 4 (1982).” Vistas 8 (July 2023) https://islaa.org/publications/vistas-8/

“Xocomil, Vivian Suter’s Salute to the Wind,” 111th CAA Annual Conference, New York, February 18, 2023.

“Juan Francisco Elso: Por América.” Conversation with José Falconi, Susanna V. Temkin, Olga Viso, and Irene Vázquez, The New Social Environment #720, presented by The Brooklyn Rail, New York, January 9, 2023. https://brooklynrail.org/events/2023/01/09/juan-francisco-elso-por-america/

“Burning with Desire - Reflections on Vanderlei Lopes’ Coração (Heart) (2013),” presented at Presences and Processes in Latin America Sculpture, a symposium held at the University of Maryland Art Gallery, October 27, 2022. https://arthistory.umd.edu/events/symposium-recastrefundiciones-presences-and-processes-latin-american-sculpture

Remembering Carmen Herrera. A celebration in memory of Carmen Herrera, September 28 2022, Whitney Museum of American Art: Adam Weinberg Alex Logsdail Estrellita Brodsky Monica Espinel Nigel Prince Dana Miller Olga Viso Tony Bechara

The Artistic Heritage Committee extends an invitation to learn about the life and work of artist Carmen Herrera in a talk led by scholar Monica Espinel.

Artists Tony Bechara and Odili Donald Odita and scholar Monica Espinel join Brooklyn Rail Editor-at-Large Raphael Rubinstein for a conversation about the life and work of Carmen Herrera, concluding with a poetry reading by Tyhe Cooper.

The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, Columbia University in the City of New York, and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) are pleased to announce the Sixth Annual Symposium of Latin American Art. “Movement & Presence: The Visual Culture […]

Parcharte, which translates to ”hanging out with art”, is an interview program hosted by independent curator Monica Espinel. She speaks with contemporary artists about their practice.

Tatiana Arocha and Carolina Rubio-MacWright: Duet of Displacement, in The Festival of Graduate Misfits, November 11 and 18, 2021, Washington Square Park, New York, curator

Bread & Salt, San Diego February 27 - April 30, 2021 In Remorses and Other Maladies, Carlos Castro Arias constructs an aesthetic experience divided in three chapters. The first, Remorses, presents a series of paintings begun in 2017, that he halted fleetingly and reignited once the pandemic began. On view is the existential soul strength […]

“Impending Beauty: Resilience and Resignification in Tatiana Arocha’s Forests of the Mind,” in Tatiana Arocha - Impending Beauty, Brooklyn Arts Council, 2021, New York: 46-63. https://www.tatianaarocha.com/belleza-inminente

A conversation on Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos between Cecilia Fajardo-Hill & Mónica Espinel, Independent Curators Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York Frieze Masters Friday October 9, 2020 12 pm NYC | 5 pm London Held via ZOOM

Conversation with Carlos Castro Arias, Daniel Ramos, and Milagros de la Torre, Artpace, San Antonio, TX

The discussion, moderated by Susanna Temkin, Curator, El Museo del Barrio, featured Tony Bechara, artist and long-time friend of Herrera’s; Carolina Ponce de Leon, independent curator who formerly worked at El Museo del Barrio where she organized the exhibition ‘Carmen Herrera: The Black and White Paintings, 1951-1989’ in 1998; and Monica Espinel, independent curator and […]

In Spring 2020, Artpace San Antonio will present solo exhibitions by Carlos Castro Arias, Milagros de la Torre, and Daniel Ramos.

60 Wall Gallery, Deutsche Bank February 12 - May 14, 2018 Hybrid Topographies presents contemporary artists from Latin America who share an engagement with the landscape, whether urban or rural. The works on view weave a multiplicity of narratives that stem from a place of encounters as a means to understand the other and as […]

Henrique Faria, New York, February 16 - March 25, 2017 Press Release

Whitney Museum of American Art September 16, 2016 - January 9, 2017 Carmen Herrera’s chronology for the Lines of Sight exhibition.

“Maurício Ianês.” ArtNexus, 95, Vol. 13 (December 2014-February 2015): 126-127.

Galeria Emma Thomas, São Paulo, October 11 – November 13, 2014 Bruno Miguel delves into the material and conceptual issues of painting through an innovative use of non-traditional materials that include resin, found objects, wood, studio leftovers and Companhia das Indias tableware from a vast collection acquired in antique stores or at auction. “Todos à […]

“Rosemberg Sandoval.” Artforum online (September 9, 2014): https://www.artforum.com/picks/rosemberg-sandoval-48147

Laboratório Curatorial, SP-Arte, São Paulo April 2 – 7, 2013 Strange seizures beset us when we see the interior of our body. The opposite is also true. The Skin I Live In presents artists who explore the notion of the body, inside and outside, not only as a physical space, but also as a mental, […]

The Bronx Museum of the Arts July 19, 2012 – January 6, 2013 The Bronx Museum will present The Rituals of Chaos, an exhibition featuring the work of Mexican photojournalist Enrique Metinides, as part of its ongoing Urban Archives series. On view from July 19, 2012 through January 6, 2013, the exhibition will feature more […]

Howard Gilman Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art October 13, 2011 - February 26, 2012 Rarely seen masterpieces from Alfred Stieglitz’s personal collection of photography will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 13, 2011, through February 26, 2012, in the exhibition Photographic Treasures from the Collection of Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz was not […]

The Bronx Museum of the Arts June 26 - September 5, 2011 Bronx Museum Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Artist In the Marketplace (Aim) For three decades, the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program has helped to demystify the often opaque professional practices of the art world for artists at the […]

Creon, New York November 3 - December 4, 2010 “Nothing tells memories from ordinary moments. Only afterwards do they claim remembrance on account of their scars.” Chris Marker, La Jetée Memory Leaks is a personally charged show of works that were tattooed in my brain, a subjective momentary ordering of memory, time and meaning. It […]

60 Wall Gallery, Deutsche Bank May 24 - September 3, 2010 In the post-World War II era, artists in Latin America broke away from the creation of national artistic styles and socially concerned figurative art and began developing abstract languages that reflected a broader international context. “Then & Now” explores the various modes of abstraction […]

Henrique Faria, New York October 16 - November 24, 2009 Geometric Abstract Works: The Latin American vision from the 1950s, 60s and 70s offers a rare opportunity to view seminal works by Latin American artists whose exposure in the United States has been limited. This is the first in a series of historically rooted exhibitions […]

Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill, New York August 1 - November 29, 2009 Laura Anderson Barbata, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Lorenzo Clayton, Peter Edlund, Nicholas Galanin, Edgar Heap of Birds, Melanie Printup-Hope, Maria Hupfield, G. Peter Jemison, Jason Lujan, Alan Michelson, Anna Tsouhlarakis, William R. Wilson Muhheakantuck, a Lenape word meaning “the river that flows both […]

“Allora & Calzadilla.” Arte al Dia, 127 (May, June, July 2009): 106.

Frederico Sève Gallery / Latincollector, New York July 17 - September 13, 2008 Frederico Seve/Latincollector Gallery is pleased to announce Ceremonies of Summer, a multimedia exhibition curated by Mónica Espinel. The exhibition is an homage to Marta Traba, critic, author, curator and historian, and was inspired by her first novel “Las ceremonias del verano” published […]

Frederico Sève Gallery / Latincollector, New York May 1 - June 14, 2008 Frederico Seve/Latincollector Gallery is pleased to announce a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Fanny Sanín. A Chromatic Journey, 1966 - 2006 presents Sanín’s exploration undertaken with color as the thread that links the various phases of her work. This small survey enables […]

Gramercy Post, New York May 4 - June 18, 2005 In its second collaboration with emerging artists, Gramercy Post is pleased to present Crackerfarm, an artist collective comprised of photographers Mike Beyer and Lindsey Rome. Their photography is a strange brew, a kind of self-reflective ethnography that evokes Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”. Like Sal […]

Gramercy Post, New York February 16 - April 2, 2005 Gramercy Post is pleased to open its collaboration with emerging artists with an exhibition of work by Denise Schatz curated by Monica Espinel. Schatz makes collages and works on paper, using magazine cut-outs, graphite and colored pencils. She creates delicate, layered scenes where animals, molecules, […]

Marvelli Gallery, New York June 30 - July 31, 2004 Marvelli Gallery is pleased to present Black Milk: Theories on Suicide, a group exhibition curated by Monica Espinel, that brings together young contemporary artists whose work touches on issues related to suicide. The multimedia exhibition will include work by Charles Cohen, Ian Cooper, Elizabeth Gray […]

Marvelli Gallery, New York June 10 - September 27, 2003 Marvelli Gallery is pleased to present Works on Paper, a group exhibition of works on paper or synthetic materials by Andrea Frank, Guy Hindley, Kurt Lightner, Tim Maxwell, Dean Smith and Nicolas Touron. For some of these artists, this exhibition represents their first gallery exposure. […]