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A panel discussion with artists and curators Quintín Rivera-Toro, Marilyn Montufar, and Enio Hernandez on their work and research behind the current exhibitions 'A Culture in Flames: Puerto Rican Art of Resistance in the XXI Century' and 'En Comunidad: Latinx Photography Now (Ahora)' in the Abrazo and LES Galleries in the Clemente. The discussion will be moderated by art scholar / curator Yasmin Ramirez.
Quintín Rivera Toro is a postmodern artist who works in a multitude of creative branches: public art, film, writing, performance, painting, sculpture, and video art. He was born in Caguas in 1978. He has an M.F.A. in Sculpture from R.I.S.D. in Providence, Rhode Island (2013); and a Ph.D. in Art Production and Research from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (2019). He was the founder and director of the cultural space ÁREA in 2005. The New York Times called his work “Impressive contemporary art”; He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Puerto Rico ín Piedras.
Enio Hernandez was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and received his B.F.A. in Printmaking from RISD. His work expands on the cultural vernacular of the Chicano experience and explores themes of race, language, sexuality, and identity. Enio’s ongoing photographic series documents the urban landscape across various metropolitan cities throughout the United States and Latin America. His mixed media based projects are informed from his experiences living in the working class community of East Los Angeles and as a Mexican-Guatemalan American gay man living in the United States. He creates abstract landscapes through a queer gaze, and layers elements of Latinx culture, surrealism, abstract, and neo-expressionism. Enio presents a visual language that transcends heteronormative binaries as well as western narratives in art.
Marilyn Montufar is a fine art photographer, educator, and activist with ten years of research, production, teaching, and exhibition experience locally, nationally, and internationally. Her work amplifies stories about underrepresented communities through the arts – youth, migrants, women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ communities. She received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas Gerónimo Baqueiro Fóster, Mérida, Mexico (2019), Gallery 4Culture, Seattle (2018), among others.
Montufar was a finalist for the 2020 Betty Bowen Award and Neddy at Cornish Award. She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont and Primal Studio, Mexico City, where she created the photography youth project Beyond Borders –a visual collaboration and international exchange program between Mexico and the United States. The project was featured at FotoMéxico Festival and the Tamayo Art Museum’s Education Center in Mexico City in 2019.
Yasmin Ramirez is an art worker, independent curator, and writer based in New York City. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has earned critical acclaim for exhibitions and essays on latinx art in the United States and sits on the community advisory board at El Museo del Barrio.
