Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021-2025 Exhibition @ El Museo del Barrio, New York

Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021-2025 

El Museo del Barrio, New York 

August 28, 2025 — Summer 2026 

Laura Aguilar

Plush Pony #25, 1992

Gelatin silver print 

Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York 

Gift of the Acquisitions Committee

Photo by Matthew Sherman 

william cordova 

2 tienes santo pero no eres Babalawo, 2023 

Mixed media 

Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York 

Gift in memory of Rudy Perez

Danielle De Jesus 

Loyalty like this doesn't exist anymore, 2021 

Oil on linen 

Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York

Gift of Noah Roy 

Photo by Dario Lasagni

Mundo Meza 

Kuikuro Jakui Flutes, 1976 

Acrylic on canvas 

Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York 

Gift of the Estate of the artist 

Photo by David Frantz

El Museo del Barrio in New York presents Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021–2025, a dynamic exhibition showcasing 39 newly acquired works by 36 artists that reflect the Museum’s ongoing commitment to representing the cultural vibrancy and complexity of Latinx and Latin American communities. This exhibition marks a bold and celebratory moment for El Museo’s evolving Permanent Collection.

“Jangueando embodies El Museo del Barrio’s unwavering commitment to artists whose work captures the complexities, resilience, and brilliance of our Latine culture. In this moment of heightened threats, this exhibition becomes more than a celebration—it asserts the power of gathering—of hanging out—as a form of resistance, healing, and transformation.” —Patrick Charpenel, Executive Director, El Museo del Barrio.

The title is a play on words. It looks to janguear, Puerto Rican slang for socializing with friends. From hanging out to hanging art, here it uses the museum context to create a space of dialogue and gathering. At a time when many of the communities represented by El Museo del Barrio are under attack—through immigration raids, backlash against DEI initiatives, and the cancellation of federal grants—these multiple interpretations imply both solidarity and a political call to action through holding space and kinship.

Hiram Maristany

The Gathering, 1964/2022

Silver gelatin print

Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York 

Museum Purchase

Carlos Motta with Higinio Bautista 

Shaman Boa, 2023 

Carved wood 

Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York 

Gift of the Acquisitions Committee 

Benjamin Muñoz 

Contract Labor, 2024 

Chine collé woodcut on paper 

Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York 

Gift of Benjamin & Julianna Muñoz

Jaime Muñoz 

Metal Only, 2022

Acrylic, glitter, paper, and velvet on wood panel

Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York

Gift of Lio Malca

El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection of more than 8,500 artworks was shaped by the Museum’s unique history as an artist-led, community-focused institution from when it was first established in 1969. The founding community of the Museum faced extreme racism and economic hardship and insisted that art had the power to help communities connect in the face of these trials and, together, imagine alternative ways of being.

Jangueando brings together 39 works by artists at various stages in their careers, representing a range of generations, cultural perspectives, and media—including painting, photography, sculpture, and video. Organized into thematic clusters, select groupings build on the museum’s historical strengths, such as Puerto Rican and Nuyorican portraiture, Latinx photography, and printmaking. The exhibition also highlights the evolution of the museum’s collecting strategy, with renewed focus on queer artists and those of Indigenous descent.

“Ever evolving, El Museo del Barrio’s distinct Permanent Collection stands as a testament to the artists, cultural workers, donors, and community members who have helped build and shaped it over time,” says Susanna V. Temkin, Interim Chief Curator, El Museo del Barrio. “Jangueando marks an exciting new chapter in the Museum’s evolution as a collecting institution—serving not only as a platform to debut new acquisitions, but also as a reflection of our shared, collective spirit. The exhibition offers both a framework and a provocation to what is at stake in being together.”

Juan Sánchez 

Still from Unknown Boricua Streaming: 

Nuyorican State of Mind, 2011 

Video, color with sound, 8:09 mins 

Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York

Gift of Javier Lumbreras

Ethel Shipton 

Change Cambio, 2020 

House paint and vinyl on wooden panel 

Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York 

Gift of the artist and Ruiz-Healy Art 

Daiara Tukano 

Hori, 2023 

Acrylic on canvas

Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York 

Gift of Daiara Tukano and Millan

Artists whose works are on view in the exhibition include:

Eduardo Abaroa (1968, Mexico City, Mexico; lives in Mexico City)

Laura Aguilar (1959, San Gabriel, CA – 2018, Long Beach, CA)

José Alicea (1928, Ponce, Puerto Rico; lives in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)

Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903, Lagos de Moreno, Mexico - 1993, Mexico City, Mexico)

assume vivid astro focus (formed in New York, NY in 2001)

Myrna Báez (1931, Santurce, Puerto Rico – 2018, Hato Ray, Puerto Rico)

Higinio Bautista

Eloy Blanco (1933, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico – 1984, New York, NY)

Luis Carle (1962, San Juan, Puerto Rico; lives in New York, NY)

Los Carpinteros (formed in La Havana, Cuba in 1992)

Manuel Chavajay (1982, San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala, lives in San Pedro La Laguna)

william cordova (1971, Lima, Peru; lives in North Miami Beach, FL)

Abraham Cruzvillegas (1968, Mexico City, Mexico; lives in Mexico City)

Danielle De Jesus (1987, Brooklyn, NY; lives in Brooklyn)

Sandra Gamarra Heshiki (1972, Lima, Peru; lives in Madrid, Spain)

Luis Gispert (1972, Jersey City, NJ)

Matías González Chavajay (b. 1959, San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala, lives in San Pedro La Laguna)

Pedro Rafael González Chavajay (b. 1956 in San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala, lives in San Pedro La Laguna)

Julia Isidrez (1967, Itá, Paraguay; lives in Itá)

Antonio C. Ixtamer (b. in 1968 in San Juan la Laguna, Guatemala, lives in San Juan la Laguna, Guatemala)

Lidia Lisbôa (1970, Guaira, Brazil; lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil)

Marepe (Marcos Reis Peixoto) (1970, Santo Antônio de Jesus Bahia, Brazil; lives in Santo Antônio de Jesus)

Hiram Maristany (1945, New York, NY – 2022, St. Petersburg, FL)

Maria Teodora Mendez de González

Mundo Meza (1955, Tijuana, Mexico - 1985, Los Angeles, CA)

Carlos Motta (1978, Bogota, Colombia; lives in New York, NY)

Benjamin Muñoz (1993, Dallas, TX; lives in Dallas)

Jaime Muñoz (1987, Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in Pomona, CA)

Paula Nicho Cúmez (1955, Comalapa, Guatemala, lives in Comalapa)

Miguel Pou y Becerra (1880, Ponce, Puerto Rico - 1968 San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Juan Sánchez (1954, Brooklyn, NY; lives in Brooklyn)

Ethel Shipton (1963, Laredo, TX; lives in San Antonio, TX)

Valeska Soares (b. 1957, Belo Horizonte; lives in Brooklyn)

Laureana Toledo (1970, Ixtepec, Mexico; lives in Mexico City, Mexico)

Rigoberto Torres (1960, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; lives in New York, Puerto Rico, and Florida)

Daiara Tukano (1970, Guaira, Brazil; lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil)

The exhibition is organized by the Curatorial Department of El Museo del Barrio: Zuna Maza, Lee Sessions, and Susanna V. Temkin, with María Molano Parrado.

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William Cordova, Zipora Fried, Sheila Hicks, Cameron Martin, Vik Muniz, Kay Rosen, Erin Shirreff, Kara Walker @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York - Un-Fair

William Cordova, Zipora Fried, Sheila Hicks, Cameron Martin, Vik Muniz, Kay Rosen, Erin Shirreff, Kara Walker: Un-Fair 

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

Through March 6, 2021

Sikkema Jenkins & Co. presents Un-Fair, a group show featuring work by William Cordova, Zipora Fried, Sheila Hicks, Cameron Martin, Vik Muniz, Kay Rosen, Erin Shirreff, and Kara Walker. Incorporating painting, sculpture, photography and works on paper, this exhibition highlights the diverse creative endeavors and cultural backgrounds of gallery's artists. The majority of work included here is new, produced within the past year, and originally intended for art fairs around the world. While 2020 saw the transformation of such exhibitions into online viewing rooms and other virtual spaces, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. are grateful to now be able to show these works in the gallery and offer visitors the incomparable, singular experience of viewing them in person.

WILLIAM CORDOVA (b. 1961, Lima, Peru), is interested in the ephemeral visuality of transition and displacement, how objects and perception change and adapt within time and space. Utilizing material such as gold leaf, graphite, and paint, Cordova represents sacred geometries and galactic structures as vital, interconnected networks of communication, mobility, shelter, creation, and spirituality. Recent solo exhibitions include on the lower frequencies I speak 4U, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY (2019) and now’s the time: narratives of southern alchemy, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2018). Cordova earned his BFA from The School of the Art Institute, Chicago (1996), and his MFA from Yale University (2004).

ZIPORA FRIED (b. Haifa, Israel) builds her large-scale colored pencil works stroke by stroke, meticulously imprinting each mark upon the paper. The cumulative effect is of a luminous landscape composed entirely of color, evoking an intricate spectrum of emotionality through methodical, disciplined abstraction. Recent exhibitions include As the Ground Turns, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2019); (wordless) at Small Editions, New York (2017); Late October, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY (2016); and Zipora Fried: Some Things Have Meaning, Others Don’t, Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, TX (2015). She studied at the Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, and currently lives and works in New York.

SHEILA HICKS (b.1934, Hastings, NE) received her BFA (1957) and MFA (1959) degrees from the Yale School of Art. She received a Fulbright scholarship in 1957-58 to paint in Chile, where she developed her interest in working with fiber. Her most recent major solo exhibitions include Thread, Trees, River at Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2020-2021); Reencuentro, Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago, Chile (2019), Sheila Hicks: Seize, Weave Space, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (2019), and Sheila Hicks: Campo Abierto (Open Field), The Bass, Miami Beach, FL (2019). She currently works in Paris.

CAMERON MARTIN (b. 1970, Seattle, WA) incorporates both traditional and digital methods in his process of drawing and painting, developing a hybrid visual system that negotiates methodical abstraction with improvisational representation. He received his BA from Brown University (1994), and continued his education under the Whitney Independent Study Program (1996). He has exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum of Art, St Louis Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, City Gallery (Wellington, New Zealand), and Tel Aviv Museum. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

VIK MUNIZ (b. 1961, São Paulo, Brazil) is recognized for his photographs of reimagined art historical imagery, created from a wide variety of materials. His Surfaces series continues exploring the space between object and meaning, as the viewer’s experience of the physical work of art becomes recontextualized by additional modes of image production and representation. His work has been exhibited in prestigious institutions worldwide, with recent solo exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (2018); Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria (2018); and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico (2017). In 2011, Muniz was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, in recognition of his contributions to education and social development projects in Rio de Janeiro. 

KAY ROSEN (b. 1943) has been investigating the visual possibilities of language since 1968, when she traded in the academic study of languages for what she describes as her endless inquiry of language-based art. Her work has been described as sculpture, poetry, architecture, and performance, with meaning conveyed by the structure of a word and the formal qualities of letterforms. Major solo exhibitions include a two-venue mid-career survey entitled Kay Rosen: Li[f]eli[k]e, curated by Connie Butler and Terry R. Myers at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and Otis College of Art Design (1998), and shows at institutions such as Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

ERIN SHIRREFF (b. 1975, Kelowna, British Columbia) produces her vivid cyanotypes through a camera-less photographic printing process, manipulating natural and artificial light to create pattern, form, and shadow. The cyanotypes are then cut, layered, and arranged to form abstract, painterly compositions that complicate the materiality of their own image-making. Shirreff’s work is currently on view in Remainders, a solo exhibition at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA. Other major solo exhibitions include New Work: Erin Shirreff at the San Franicisco Museum of Modern Art (2019) and Halves and Wholes at Kunsthalle Basel (2016). She received her BFA from University of Victoria, British Columbia (1998) and her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University, New Haven, CT (2005).

Hundreds of archival, never-before-seen drawings by KARA WALKER (b. 1969, Stockton, CA) are featured alongside new work in the upcoming solo exhibition Kara Walker: A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be, at the Kunstmuseum Basel (Spring 2021). Walker was most recently selected by the Tate Modern for the 2019 Hyundai Commission, presenting a large-scale public monument entitled Fons Americanus. She received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art (1991) and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (1994).

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