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ISLAA The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art supports the study & visibility of Latin
American art

The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) supports the study and visibility of Latin
American art.

08/09/2026

Sundays with David

David Lamelas: Early Drawings from Buenos Aires

Produced in Buenos Aires in 1962, these preparatory and early drawings belong to a period of intense artistic experimentation in Argentina, when new avant garde practices were transforming the city’s cultural landscape.

Presented here for the first time, the works offer a glimpse into Lamelas’s early explorations of the figure, gesture, space, and composition. These interests would continue to evolve throughout his practice, taking new forms across sculpture, installation, photography, film, and conceptual art.

Part of the ISLAA collection, these drawings offer a rare view into an early chapter of Lamelas’s artistic development and are available for study by scholars, curators, and researchers at the ISLAA Research Center.

📍 142 Franklin Street, TriBeCa
Tuesday to Saturday · 12 to 6 PM
Research Center by appointment

Free admission. Open to the public.

ISLAA
Exhibitions. Research Center. Bookstore.

08/09/2026

Sundays with David Lamelas

David Lamelas: Early Drawings from Buenos Aires

Produced in Buenos Aires in 1962, these preparatory and early drawings belong to a period of intense artistic experimentation in Argentina, as new avant-garde practices were transforming the city’s cultural landscape.

Presented here for the first time, the works offer insight into Lamelas’s early approach to the figure, gesture, space, and composition—concerns that would later develop across sculpture, installation, photography, film, and conceptual art.

Part of the ISLAA collection, the drawings are available for study by scholars, curators, and researchers by appointment.

📍 142 Franklin Street, TriBeCa
Tuesday–Saturday · 12–6 PM

Free admission. Open to the public.

ISLAA
Exhibitions. Research Center. Bookstore

08/07/2026

Beyond the Exhibition: Chonon Bensho Reading Table

Every exhibition begins with looking. It continues through reading, reflection, and conversation.

Join us this Saturday for a guided tour of ISLAA’s Spring Exhibitions, a final opportunity to experience them before they close. The visit continues at our reading table, where a curated selection of books invites a deeper engagement with the ideas and cultural traditions that resonate throughout the exhibition.

The reading table brings together publications on Shipibo-Konibo visual traditions, Amazonian cosmologies, Indigenous histories, and the kené designs that are fundamental to Chonon Bensho’s artistic practice.

Rather than serving as explanatory texts, these books open new paths of inquiry. They offer entry points into the knowledge systems, histories, and living traditions that inform the artist’s work while encouraging each visitor to continue exploring beyond the gallery.

Saturday, August 8
3:00–4:00 PM
📍 142 Franklin Street, Tribeca

Free admission. Open to the public.

ISLAA
Exhibitions • Research Center • Bookstore

07/31/2026

🎬 La intención del colibrí

ISLAA is pleased to present La intención del colibrí to a global audience. Directed by Sergio de León, the documentary offers a moving portrait of Uruguayan artist Ulises Beisso, celebrating his life, creative vision, and enduring legacy.

Presented in conjunction with Ulises Beisso: (Hidden) in Plain Sight, the film offers another way to experience Beisso’s work—whether in our galleries or from anywhere in the world.

Watch the film on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Jx7oPj0v4MQ

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🎬 La intención del colibrí

ISLAA se complace en presentar La intención del colibrí a una audiencia global. Dirigido por Sergio de León, el documental ofrece un retrato íntimo y profundamente conmovedor del artista uruguayo Ulises Beisso, recorriendo su vida, su universo creativo y el legado que continúa inspirando a nuevas generaciones.

Presentado en diálogo con la exposición Ulises Beisso: (Hidden) in Plain Sight, el documental amplía la experiencia de la muestra más allá de las galerías de ISLAA e invita a descubrir la obra y la visión de Beisso desde cualquier lugar del mundo.

Vea la película en YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Jx7oPj0v4MQ

On view at ISLAA through August 29.

📍 142 Franklin Street, TriBeCa
Tuesday–Saturday · 12–6 PM
Free admission. Open to the public.

ISLAA
Exhibitions. Research Center. Bookstore.

07/29/2026

Ulises Beisso: (Hidden) in Plain Sight exhibition catalogue.

Published on the occasion of the first exhibition of the visionary Uruguayan artist in the United States, the catalogue brings together Beisso’s final body of work alongside photographs, sketches, press clippings, and archival materials from the Ulises Beisso Archive at ISLAA. Offering further context to the exhibition, it highlights the breadth of Beisso’s practice and the enduring relevance of his work.

Ulises Beisso: (Hidden) in Plain Sight curated by Mariano López Seoane with Olivia Casa on view at ISLAA through August 29.

📍 142 Franklin Street, TriBeCa
Tuesday–Saturday · 12–6 PM
Research Center by appointment

Free admission. Open to the public.

ISLAA
Exhibitions. Research Center. Bookstore.

07/10/2026

Curator Series · Episode 03
Mariano López Seoane on Ulises Beisso: (Hidden) in Plain Sight

“Throughout his work, you can see joy in seeing things in the world.” These are some of the words Mariano López Seoane uses to describe the work of Ulises Beisso.

New episode of our Curator Series, in which López Seoane reflects on Beisso’s rich practice—shaped by an exuberant imagination, a love for craft, and a profound appreciation for the natural world. Through this lens, he explores the artist’s unique way of seeing, where everyday moments become spaces of wonder, curiosity, and quiet revelation.

Part of ISLAA’s Spring 2026 exhibition season, Ulises Beisso: (Hidden) in Plain Sight marks the artist’s first exhibition in the United States. The exhibition is curated by Mariano López Seoane with Olivia Casa, with curatorial assistance from Micaela Vindman.

On view at ISLAA through August 29.

📍142 Franklin Street, TriBeCa
Tuesday–Saturday · 12–6 PM
Research Center by appointment.

Admission is free and open to the public.

ISLAA
Exhibitions. Research Center. Bookstore.

07/03/2026

Gallery 3 | ISLAA Spring Exhibition Series

Forests, rivers, birds, spiritual beings, and woven patterns come together in Chonon Bensho’s intricate drawings, where kené becomes a living language of memory, healing, and ancestral knowledge.

In Biri biri imaboi / Your fingertips will glow, Bensho invites viewers into a Shipibo-Konibo cosmology rooted in the interconnected relationships between people, plants, animals, rivers, forests, and the natural world. Drawing becomes a means of transmitting knowledge across generations, linking image, language, landscape, and spirit.

Presented alongside the works, a selected bibliography extends the exhibition through publications on Indigenous histories, Amazonian cosmologies, oral traditions, and the cultural meanings of kené. Highlights include Jone Jonibo: Los seres espirituales de Chonon Bensho and Non Onan Shinan, together with Histórias Indígenas, Histórias Indígenas: Antologia, Amazônia Açu, Kené: arte, ciencia y tradición en diseño, El ojo verde: cosmovisiones amazónicas, and Serpiente de Agua / Serpent of the Waters.

Together, the drawings, poems, and books invite visitors to experience the exhibition not only as a visual encounter, but as a living space of memory, healing, and ancestral knowledge.

Chonon Bensho: Biri biri imaboi / Your fingertips will glow
Curated by Starasea Camara

On view at ISLAA through August 29.

📍142 Franklin Street, TriBeCa
Tuesday–Saturday · 12–6 PM
Research Center by appointment.

Admission is free and open to the public.

ISLAA
Exhibitions. Research Center. Bookstore.

06/28/2026

🎶 This is PLAN /33.

PLAN /33 is an ongoing ISLAA initiative developed with artist Iván Navarro and Hueso Records, in partnership with ICA Miami. Conceived as a long-term cultural project, PLAN /33 is dedicated to recovering and reissuing thirty-three rare vinyl records from Latin America’s underground music scenes of the 1980s.

Bringing together archival research, experimental music, and contemporary art, each release pairs a recovered album with newly commissioned cover artwork by a leading Latin American artist.

Now available
- 01/33 – Cleopatras
- 02/33 – María Sonora

Coming next
- 03/33 – Los Estómagos
- 04/33 – Los Traidores

Recently featured in Miami New Times and The Clinic, PLAN /33 continues to bring renewed attention to Latin America’s underground musical histories and the artists who shaped them, connecting archival discovery with contemporary artistic practice.

Available now at the ISLAA Bookstore, the ICA Miami Shop, and online through Hueso Records.

📍142 Franklin Street, TriBeCa
Tuesday–Saturday · 12–6 PM
Research Center by apointment.

Admission is free and open to the public.

ISLAA
Exhibitions. Research Center. Bookstore

06/26/2026

Curator Series · Episode 02
Mariano López Seoane on Ulises Beisso: (Hidden) in Plain Sight

Every exhibition begins with an idea.

Join curator Mariano López Seoane for an inside look at Ulises Beisso: (Hidden) in Plain Sight, co-curated with Olivia Casa—the first U.S. museum exhibition dedicated to the Argentine artist.

Drawing on years of research and the Ulises Beisso Archives at ISLAA, López Seoane discusses the ideas, discoveries, and curatorial decisions behind the exhibition.

Part of ISLAA’s Spring 2026 exhibition season, Ulises Beisso: (Hidden) in Plain Sight is on view through August 29, 2026.

On view now at ISLAA.

📍 142 Franklin Street, TriBeCa
⏱ Tuesday–Saturday · 12 PM–6 PM
🗃 Research Center by appointment

ISLAA
Exhibitions. Research Center. Bookstore

06/24/2026

🎬 In his own words: Bernardo Krasniansky — Fragment I

Bernardo Krasniansky reflects on his experimental use of Xerox technology during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Featured in ISLAA’s current Spotlight, Krasniansky transformed the photocopier from a tool of reproduction into a space for artistic experimentation. Working directly with photocopies, distortion, and repetition, he challenged conventional distinctions between original and copy, creating a body of work that remains remarkably inventive today.

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