Curator's Insights - Diaspora, Identity, and Race: Cuba Today

Curated by graduate student Ashley Gibson, the exhibition tackles issues that have long been taboo in Cuban socialist society. Since the early 1990s, Cuban artists and intellectuals have investigated the many complex identities that exist within Cuba and which reflect the intermingling of Africa, Europe, and Asia in the Caribbean. Afro-Cuban religion and culture have become important themes in the work of contemporary Cuban artists, revealing the persistence of racism in Cuba today. As Gibson notes, "This exhibition will contribute to current debates about racism in contemporary Cuba and elsewhere in the world, while raising larger questions of cultural heritage, gender, identity, and diaspora." Artists include Belkis Ayon, Juan Carlos Alom, José Fors, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Aimée Garcia, Elsa Mora, Ibrahim Miranda, Sandra Ramos, and René Peña.


Cosponsored by The Americas in a Globalized World at the University of Oregon, the department of Romance Languages and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The exhibition is made possible with support from the William C Mitchell Estate, Chris and Christine Smith, the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, and JSMA members.

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Education

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• Cuba
• art
• Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
• Eugene
• University of Oregon
• Ashley Gibson
• museum