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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.
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)
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Research Portals, Centers & Archives
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 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)
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UM Libraries Land Acknowledgment
Article Indexes & Databases
Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984)
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA & RILA)
Caribbean Newspapers 1817-1876
Ethnographic Video OnlineHandbook of Latin American Stuides
Hispanic American Newspapers (1908-1980)
JSTOR
Latin America in Videos
Network of Latin American, Caribbean and Portuguese Journals
Oxford Art Online
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Worldcat Online Catalog
Journals & Serials
E-Books
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
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