Sharing the Spotlight: Elizabeth Ferrer
When: Saturday, January 11, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Where: Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente
Sharing the Spotlight is presented with support from Historias, a multi-year programmatic initiative led by The Clemente in partnership with LxNY and supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Historias charts the transformative impact of Latinx communities in NYC through research, artistic interpretations, and public engagement.
Teatro LATEA and Historias are pleased to co-present Sharing the Spotlight, a conversation series by emerging Latinx artists/photographers to run in tandem with the Borimix exhibition Maximo Rafael Colón: Storied Lens. For this series, Colón has extended an invitation to a select group of Latino photographers to share the spotlight in a series of artist talks where they will present and discuss their work.
This event will be the final of the series, a talk by independent curator and writer, Elizabeth Ferrer, discussing Ferrer’s research, trajectory, and upcoming projects.
Elizabeth Ferrer is a New York based independent curator and writer focusing on Latinx art and photography. She previously directed the curatorial programs at BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; the Americas Society, New York; and the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York. At BRIC, she launched the BRIC Biennial, and curated some fifty exhibitions in her fifteen-year tenure. Working in a freelance capacity, she has been responsible for major exhibitions that have appeared at such venues as the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; El Museo del Barrio, NY; and the Aperture Foundation Gallery, NY, among other institutions. She is the author of Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva (Aperture and the Center for Creative Photography, 2024), Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History (University of Washington Press, 2020), and Lola Álvarez Bravo (Aperture, 2006). In addition, her essay on Maximo Colon will appear in the book Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art, to be published by Duke University Press in January 2025. The major retrospective of Louis Carlos Bernal that she has curated is currently on view at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, through March, 2025.