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UNITED STATES
Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States (AMA) Washington, DC
Search images and essays on selection of 100 objects  by artist, country, movement or medium.

Blanton Museum of Art Austin, TX
Modern and contemporary paintings, prints drawings, and sculptures, reflecting the enormous diversity of artistic traditions of Mexico, South and Central America, and the Caribbean. It is of the oldest, largest and most comprehensive collections of Latin American art in the country.

Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI)
DCVAI commitment to artists of Caribbean and diverse cultures ensures they receive validation, visibility and professional opportunities.
Explore Artist Porffolios

Latin American Contemporary Art. Los Angeles County Art Museum (LACMA)

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Art of the Caribbean
Art of Central and South America
Art of the Ancient Americas

Mexic-Arte Museum. Austin, TX

El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
The preeminent forum and resource in the U.S. dedicated to Caribbean, Latino, and Latin American art. 

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Puerto Rico (MACPR)

Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) Long Beach, CA
MOLAA is dedicated to modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art. 

MoMA Cisneros Institute Resources Museum of Modern Art, NY

Latin American Art Collections Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Pan American Art Projects (PAAP)
PAAP was established in 2001 with a mission to provide a context for dialogue between the various regions of the Americas.  PAAP represents contemporary artists to includes important works from Cuba, Argentina, the U.S. and the Caribbean. 

Smithsonian American Art Museum Latino Art & Artists Washington, DC.

University of Miami Special Collections
Latin American & Caribbean Photograph Collection

ARGENTINA
Fundacion MALBA Buenos Aires

BRAZIL
Museum of Art Sao Paolo (MASP)

Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON) Curitiba.
Dedicated to the exhibition of Visual Arts, Architecture, Urbanism and Design.

Museo Nacional de Belas Artes (MBA)
Rio de Janeiro

CHILE 
Memoria Chilena 
Biblioteca Nacional Digital de Chile

Museo de la Memoria Santiago.
Museum is dedicated to commemorate the victims of human rights violations during the civic military regime led by Augusto Pinochet between 1973 and 1990.

Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI), Santiago.

COLOMBIA
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota (MAMBO)

Museo de Arte Moderno Medellin

CUBA
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana

HAITI
Le Centre d'Art
“The Centre d’Art” is a cultural institution created in 1944 and recognized as a public utility in 1947. The Centre d’Art works  toward the promotion of Haitian artistic creation.”

MEXICO
Museo Tamayo Chapultepec.

Museo de Arte Moderno Mexico City

PERU
Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) Lima.
MAC has a collection of modern, contemporary, national and international art dating from 1950 onwards, founded in 2013.

Museo Mario Testino (MATE) Barranca
MATE is a not-for-profit centre founded by Mario Testino in 2012. It aims to bring Peruvian artists and culture to worldwide attention, while offering the best of international contemporary art and photography to audiences in Lima. 

URUGUAY
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales

VENEZUELA
Fundación Nacional de Museos (FNM) 

About this Guide

Note: Many of the databases and/or article links referenced in this guide require CaneID authentication through the the UM Library system unless denoted by the "open access" symbol. 
online access
*peer-reviewed
  open access

"Only anthropophagy unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically." 
Oswald de Andrade. The Anthropophagic Manifesto. 1928
 
  Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt).
Drawing Without Paper. 1988, MoMA, NY

Video

Latin American Women Artists 1915–1995.” Films On Demand, Films Media Group, 2003.

Research Portals, Centers & Archives

The Americas to 1900
Explore art made in North and South America from prehistory to 1900.

Benson Latin American Collection, UT Austin
The Benson has over a million volumes as well as a wealth of original manuscripts, photographs and various media related to Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean and Latina/o presence in the United States.

Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 
 

Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI)
DCVAI commitment to artists of Caribbean and diverse cultures ensures they receive validation, visibility and professional opportunities.
Explore Artist Porffolios

Hispana 
Hispana is a digital portal and aggregator of Spanish resources (archives, libraries, and museums) within the collections of Europeana

International Center for the Arts of the Americas 
Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH)

MoMA Cisneros Institute Resources

Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) Rio de Janeiro
Downloadable PDFs of MAM publicatations 

Ruda Colectiva
Ruda Colectiva is a group of women photographers, gathered from the need to convene, to put on the table photographs that must be discussed and made visible, from the perspective of women in Latin America.

Organizations & Foundations

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO)

Association for Latin American Art (ALAA)
The ALAA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of the art of Latin America. 

Latin American Museums Information Network (LANIC) 

 

Video

Latin America in Video Alexander Street

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E-Books

Bessa, et al. Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism. Fordham University Press: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2014.

Carpani, Ricardo, and Rodolfo Braceli. Arte y revolución En América Latina. Ediciones Continente, 2011.

Dabène, Olivier. Street Art and Democracy in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Hernández Hernández, Pablo. Imagen-Palabra : Lugar, sujeción y Mirada En Las Artes Visuales Centroamericanas. Iberoamericana; Vervuert; Fundación TEOR/éTica: Editorial Arlekín, 2012.

Kelley, Bill, et al. Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995-2010. Duke University Press, 2017.

McIntyre, Kellen Kee., and Richard E. Phillips. Woman and Art in Early Modern Latin America. Brill, 2007.

Serviddio, Fabiana. Arte y crítica En Latinoamérica Durante Los años Setenta. Miño y Dávila, 2012.

Print Resources

Sullivan, Edward J. The Americas Revealed: Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States. The Frick Collection ; The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018.

Subject Specialist

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    gsantana@miami.edu

    284-5282

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