HISTORIAS is a citywide art and public humanities initiative conceived and led by The Clemente and co-presented with the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York | LxNY.
Through artworks, archives, oral histories, scholarship, neighborhood knowledge, and public programs, HISTORIAS documents how Latinx communities have made New York. The work moves between cultural institutions, streets, stages, tables, digital platforms, and The Clemente’s historic Loisaida building.
HOW IS A CITY MADE?
Historias at a Glance
2024-2027
Three phases of research, artistic production, and public presentation
200+
Individual contributors, from seminal artists, performers to renowned scholars and cultural leaders
40+
Public programs and events
40+
Cultural, academic, civic, and neighborhood partners
4
Signature public-program series
150+
Nueva York Chronicles entries
15
New commissions anchoring Reveladas
50+
Artists and organizations in the culminating exhibition
HISTORIAS In Public
HISTORIAS has unfolded in libraries, museums, parks, cultural centers, neighborhood streets, and The Clemente. Programs have included exhibitions, public conversations, performances, meals, domino games, workshops, youth gatherings, walking tours, and augmented-reality monuments.
4/16/25 Remesas y Sobremesa - Tequio (Mutual Aid) in an Era of Deportation and Borders
2025 Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photos by Destiny Mata.
Michael Palma Mir for El Museo del Barrio 2025 Dia del los Muertos
Nueva York Chronicles Entry; El Malo
Manuel Molina Martagon courtesy Public Art Fund, NY and The Clemente Center.
Three Phases, One Expanding Historical Record
Historias Sembradas
Sown Histories | 2024–2025
Sembradas seeded partnerships, public programs, collective research, and new artistic inquiries across New York. Artists, scholars, organizers, and cultural institutions tested how historical knowledge could move through performance, conversation, food, play, and public space.
Historias Entrecruzadas
Interwoven Histories | 2025–2026
Entrecruzadas connected histories dispersed across archives, neighborhoods, disciplines, and generations. Its central outcome was the launch of Nueva York Chronicles, a bilingual digital map and timeline joining scholarship, oral histories, archival materials, and artistic interpretation.
Historias Reveladas
Histories Revealed | 2026–2027
Reveladas brings the initiative’s research, relationships, and artistic work together through Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight. Opening in Spring 2027, the building-wide exhibition activates five floors of The Clemente with more than 50 artists and organizations, including 15 newly commissioned works.
Signature Series
HISTORIAS developed four recurring formats for gathering knowledge and returning it to public use.
Domino games become occasions for recording memories, neighborhood histories, and vernacular understandings of city life.
Augmented-reality monuments, walking tours, and neighborhood collaborations place overlooked histories within the streets and sites where they unfolded.
Artists, scholars, cooks, and community participants gather over food to examine migration, inherited knowledge, and the social life of recipes.
Public forums and youth gatherings connect artistic practice, scholarship, organizing, and questions emerging across the six HISTORIAS research tracks.
Nueva York Chronicles | NY.C. is the digital backbone of HISTORIAS. This bilingual repository connects places, people, movements, archives, oral histories, and artistic projects across New York’s five boroughs.
The platform launched with 100 entries and continues to grow through research and public contributions. Visitors can move across neighborhoods, decades, and themes to encounter the relations that have shaped Latinx New York.
A time-map of Latinx New York
The Culminating Exhibition
Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight is the culminating exhibition and central public outcome of HISTORIAS.
Across five floors, contemporary artworks, archives, installations, sound, performance, and 15 new commissions examine how Latinx communities establish belonging, sustain life under pressure, and use inherited knowledge to build what comes next.
The exhibition will open alongside the return of The Clemente as a newly accessible cultural center in Spring 2027.
In The Press
HISTORIAS has received national and international coverage for its approach to artistic production, public history, digital preservation, and cultural collaboration.
Partner with HISTORIAS
Partnership opportunities may support:
Artistic commissions and artist fees
Free public programs and signature series
Nueva York Chronicles research and expansion
Bilingual interpretation and documentation
Youth and neighborhood participation
Exhibition access and visitor engagement
Public tours, performances, and activations
Recognition and engagement opportunities can be developed across the exhibition, public programs, digital platform, publications, and public communications.
Support for HISTORIAS helps The Clemente commission artists, compensate researchers and cultural workers, keep public programs accessible, expand bilingual historical resources, document neighborhood knowledge, and bring visitors into The Clemente’s newly accessible building.
Built Through Partnership
HISTORIAS is conceived and led by The Clemente and co-presented with the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York | LxNY.
Its citywide reach is made possible through relationships with cultural organizations, archives, universities, libraries, museums, artists, scholars, and neighborhood groups. These partnerships connect institutional resources with histories and knowledge produced through lived experience.
The Clemente is proud to partner with leading cultural and educational institutions across New York City to bring Historias to life. Our growing list of partners includes:
ABC No Rio
BAAD!
BRIC
Bronx Art Space
Dominican Studies Institute
El Museo del Barrio
Flushing Town Hall
ID Theater
Mex Fest
MoMA PS1
Incite Institute
Kinfolk Foundation
La Marqueta
Library of America (LOA)
Latino Arts and Activisms (LAAS)
Museum of the City in New York (MCNY)
International Indigenous Hip Hop Festival
Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College
Columbia University Oral History Master of Arts
Performance Space New York, Public Art Fund
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA)
Center for Brooklyn History
People's Theater Project
Queens Memory Project
Rutgers University
South Bronx Unite
Street Lab
Teatro LATEA
Tenement Museum
The Healing Project
The Museum of Modern Art
Vera List Center for Art and Politics
World’s Borough Bookshop
Brooklyn Public Library
Pace University