September 28 - November 7, 2009
Main Gallery
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Samaná: Images of the Dominican Republic features photographs by Marino Corniel, Elaine Eversley and Ryan Mann-Hamilton of the Samaná peninsula which was settled in the 1820s by freed slaves from the United States. Portraits and landscapes of this unique region with a special emphasis on the descendants of the African-American settlers and the impact of development projects on the environment and the traditional cultures of the peninsula. This show is a presentation of Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture and was curated by Wallace I. Edgecombe.
June 3 - August 6, 2009
Main Gallery
Bangin' is a provocative and seductive show which includes the work of nine emerging women artists – stars on the rise – that allures the viewer to a deeper level of conversation and appreciation by going beyond the beauty and seduction of the surfaces and contents of drawings, paintings, photographs, sculpture and video. The show includes works by Emma Amos and Heather Hart (tapping into the issues of race), works by Traci Tullius, Alison Ward, and Emily North, (exploring the corporeal), works by Wonder Koch and Tamara Kostianovsky (taking you into the realm of politics), and works by Clarissa Cummings and Swati Khurana (questioning the notions of culture and tradition). Curated by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz.
In the Project Room
Linger is an installation of video, sculpture and performance by Bronx artist Melissa Calderon. The artist includes this media to create a hauntingly, obsessive introspection of new work that challenges the notion of intimacy, landscape and creation. Calderon aims to address the issues of vulnerability, loss and the obsessive thought process of art-making. Curated by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz.
March 4 - May 6, 2009
Main Gallery
Dream Sequence explores in the form of sequential images the themes of identity, socialism, sexuality, and the unconscious state of dreaming, in the form of comic books, drawing, illustration, painting, photography, sculpture and video. Participating artists include Richard Ackoon, Gary Camp, Momo Felix, Ray Felix, Ruth Fernandez, Dmitry Gubin, Marcus Jones, KAZ, Rene Iatba, Ivan Monforte, Ed Mouzon, Elena Petersen, David Quiles, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Timothy Ryan, Jean Rosa-Segarra, Luis Sierra, Hidemi Takagi, Chris Torres, Arlen Schumer, Bedel Tiscareno, Ed Traquino and Ivan Velez. Curator Ray Felix is a Bronx-based visual artist who he is mostly known for his controversial comics that tackle religious dogma, politics, human behavior and superheroes. Felix is responsible for such comics as “GOD: The Second Coming”, “No-1 Anthology”, “LSD and X-Tasy: The Villain Assassins”: A World Without Superheroes” and “Runaway Slave” which is part of the anthology comic “Bronx Heroes” by Creative One Comics. He is also a recipient of a 2002 BRIO (Bronx Recognizes its Own) Award in visual arts.
April 17 - May 9, 2009
In the Project Room
Outsiders: Contemporary Works of Immigrant Artisans
In celebration of Immigrant Heritage Week, work of local artists/artisans will be featured in the exhibition Outsiders: Contemporary Works of Immigrant Artisans. This show aims to inspire, celebrate, relate and promote the art of immigrant artists/artisans; connecting people of diverse cultures through the artist’s journey. Celebrating and embracing the individual, emerging from a shared experience, the artists offer their art as initiator of a productive dialogue about our cultural experiences and identity. An interactive Craft Lounge component invites the public to participate in the making of an ongoing installation. Curated by Lisa Curran.
March 4 - April 1, 2009
In the Project Room
F119 is Centeno’s first solo exhibition in New York City and is essentially the assembly of a hanging lamp in the form of a reconstructed engine. Vidal’s preoccupation with halting a specific fragment of time and harnessing the precise moment of explosion boarders on obsession and reflects a commonly shared morbid fascination with tragedy and destruction. Centeno is a visual artist living and working at his temporary space that is part artist studio and part crime scene laboratory near Ground Zero. Curated by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz.
A Pratt Institute graduate, Vidal assembles three-dimensional constructs with meticulous attention to detail using disparate materials such as text, vinyl tubing, plastic toys and florescent lighting. He is also currently in the group show, Preemptive Resistances: Reversed Strategies at the Westport Arts Center in Connecticut. In 2008 he participated in the group show How Soon Is Now at The Bronx Museum as part of AIM 28. Vidal has also exhibited at El Museo Del Barrio's 5th Biennial, The (S) Files 2007, NY, and at Longwood Art Gallery’s 2005 exhibit Post Plátano / Ante Formalism.
December 3, 2008 - February 7, 2009
Main Gallery
Curated by Ezo Wippler, Graffiti: Spirit of an Age @ 40 x 10 highlights works of 10 artists that began their careers in their teens making Graffiti artists and as time had progressed, have expanded their visual vernacular to include other forms of expression such as drawing, graphic design, painting and sculpture. The result is a starling show that combines elements of graffiti, line color and the influence of urban trends and culture. Participating artists include CES, CEY, DR. REVOLT, EZO, KET, KLASS, MARE 139, REVS, SHARP and SP. The sculptures by REVS and MARE 139 incorporate immediate reference to spontaneity of the line used in graffiti writing, its curves and crevices. CES and SHARP create wild style or intricate, expressive designs with letters that look like abstractions. In CES’s paintings his name appears always at the center of the canvas, while SHARP’s style is baroque, expressive and dissolving into abstracted forms of letters forming spirals, circles and organic forms. CEY’s pieces rely on the use of typography and the layering, by overlapping text; DR. REVOLT, EZO, KET and KLASS’, and paintings are inspired in the iconography of urban life, popular culture and market brands; their works comment on urban and street life and street violence, with tones that range from humor, to sarcasm or by tapping into the subjective view of the urban condition and the urban landscape.
September 22 - November 8, 2008
Main Gallery
Aires de Loiza, Culture & Nature:
A Retrospective of the Work of Samuel Lind
with Masks by Raul Ayala, co-organized by the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, focuses on the town of Loiza, Puerto Rico, and its music, folklore and traditions, through painting, traditional crafts and bomba music. Loiza, (known also as Loiza Aldea) was founded in 1692 and is populated by the largest community of African descendents on the island of Puerto Rico. In its beginnings a town of runaway and freed slaves that settled in the north costal section, it is known by its Santiago (St. James) Apostle 10 day celebrations at the end of July with Vejigante masks and its bomba music. Featured artists for the Aires Loizeños Exhibition are prominent Puerto Rican painter Samuel Lind and craftsman Raul Ayala, both native of Loiza.
Mr. Lind has produced a great number of works celebrating dance, carnival and other aspects of Puerto Rican experience. Lind emphasizes the African dimensions of jibaro life. He also paints the mangroves and coconut palm forests, so much a part of coastal Puerto Rico. Mr. Ayala, vegigante masks maker, has been making these pieces for more than 40 years, following in the footsteps of his late father.
Main Gallery
June 4 - August 7, 2008
Curated by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, OTHER, OTHER... features works by 18 artists of African, Asian, Latino, and Native American ancestry working in drawing, installation, mixed media, painting, performance art, photography, sculpture and video, and represent a sampling of 2007 and 2008 Urban Artist Initiative Grant (UAI/NYC) recipients visual arts and media. Participating artists include established and emerging artists like Konrad Aderer, Karina Aguilera-Skvirsky, Keith Anderson, Tomie Arai, Cat Chow, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Edwin Gonzalez-Ojeda, Skowmon Hastanan, Wennie Huang, Janelle Iglesias, Duron Jackson, Teru Kuwayama, Jessica Lagunas, Alfonso Muñoz, Juan Sanchez, Dread Scott, Shen Wei, and Injoo Whang.
February 27 - May 10, 2008
Main Gallery
Congos, Guloyas y Altares: Afro Dominican Images
Presented by the Longwood Arts Project and Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, this exhibition will consist of video footage, paintings, drawings, costumes and photographs, as well as the installation of an Afro-Dominican religious altar. Prominently featured in the exhibition will be paintings and drawings by Nadal Walcot, the dean of cocolo artists. Congos, Guloyas y Altares: Afro Dominican Images is part of a wider celebration of Dominican History Week. It is also linked to performances in the Hostos theaters on March 13, 14 and 15 by masters of Afro-Dominican traditions and a seminar on the effects of development and globalization on traditional cultures.
April 14 - May 10, 2008
Project Room
Cultural Connections
An Exhibition of Works by Members of BCA's Artisans Initiative
The Bronx Council on the Arts celebrates Immigrant Heritage Week with the exhibit Cultural Connections at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos. A showcase of craft based art and objects that express our cultural connections as immigrant artists/artisans. The featured artists are members of the Artisans Initiative and the local Bronx artisan community. Join us in the celebration! Discover talented local makers of traditional ethnic art and contemporary craft forms.
December 5, 2007 - February 7, 2008
Main Gallery
Material Culture showcases unique art objects by contemporary artisans, outsider and fine art artists using craft media. Craft is personal, political and powerful, bringing to the table a different perspective, self empowered and emotive. This exhibition questions mindless consumerism turning to the artisan/artist to provide context as we delve into the human desire for material things. Included are the exquisite bronze works of master sculptor, Taal Mayon; bold ceramic percussion instruments – the creations of ceramist Rei Yao; and acclaimed textile artist Xenobia Bailey who will present her canvas sails titled Tall Ship Sails of Mystical Mothership, Material Culture, sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts, was co-curated by Lisa Curran and Juanita Lanzo.
September 17 - November 10, 2007
Main Gallery
Painted Skateboards entitled “Apache Ramos” and “La India” by Douglas Miles, 2007
With a special digital media presentation of Joe Conzo Jr.’s. (Boricua) photography as a historical introduction, The Fort Apache Connection includes work by contemporary Apache artists including drawings by renown sculptor Bob Haozous (Ft. Sill - Chiricahua Apache), photography by Carm Little Turtle (Apache/Tarahumara), mixed-media photography by Pena Bonita (Apache/Seminole), wallpaper and media installation by emerging socio-political mixed-media artist Jason Lujan (Chiricahua Apache) and Douglas Miles (San Carlos Apache/Akimel O’odham) with his Hip Hop inspired drawings and painted skateboards. This show was curated by Nadema Agard (Cherokee/Lakota/Powhatan) and is co-sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts and the Hostos Center for Arts & Culture.
June 6 - August 25, 2007
Main Gallery
BX1: The Second Bronx Artist Biennial was a visual and media arts exhibition featuring work by eighteen 2007 & 2006 BRIO winners: Blanka Amezkua, Melisa Firelei Báez, Timothy Blum, Toby Buonagurio, Reina Mia Brill, Peter Cabot, Marisol Díaz, Juan Doe, Ruth Marshall, Josh Millis, Joel Neff, Danny Ramón Peralta, Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz, Silvia Romero, Pam Sporn, Ron Terner, José Antonio Vicenty, and Lois Weingarten. This show was curated by previous Longwood Art Gallery Director Edwin Ramoran.
April 4 - May 19, 2007
Main Gallery
Sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts, New Works #10 celebrated the 10th Anniversary of En Foco’s New Works Photography Awards. Artists included Meg Escudé, Diya Murthy, Stephen Marc, Sonya Lawyer, Emilio Banuelos, LaToya Frazier, William Willson. Also included were artists who have participated over the past ten years including Ana de Orbegoso, Terry Boddie, Annu Matthew, and Larry McNeil. Juror: Alison Nordström, Curators: Miriam Romais, En Foco, Inc., and George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
April 16 - May 5, 2007
Main Gallery
Originally created by BCA’s Artisans Initiative for Immigrant History Week, Many Hands, Many Places is an exhibit of crafts and art celebrating the work of 25 immigrant artisans who are living and creating in the Bronx. The featured artisans were all members of BCA’s Artisans Initiative. more...
December 6, 2006 - March 10, 2007
Main Gallery
South Bronx Contemporary
This major exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Longwood Arts Project, featured four distinct curatorial projects by Longwood’s past directors and current director Edwin Ramoran.
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Fred Wilson's Black Now presented the artist’s observations about the contemporary meaning of the word "black";
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Betti-Sue Hertz's Street Disturbance included work in the public sphere with a penchant for humor and agitprop to address political issues;
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Eddie Torres' Iconoclasmic featured works that employ visual forms found in mass culture;
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Edwin Ramoran's Everyday Is Like Sunday broke down the professional/non-professional binary with works by intergenerational Bronx artists.
To mark this anniversary, a limited edition print by Fred Wilson was produced. A catalogue and DVD accompanied the exhibition. Public programs were scheduled through the run of the exhibition.
October 4 - November 10, 2006
Main Gallery
Ritmos Sureños / Bomba, Plena y Ponce is an exhibition of over seventy photographs by Felipe García, which together constitute a loving portrait of his hometown, Ponce, Puerto Rico. It depicts the city’s landmarks, festivals, people, performers and especially the practitioners of the bomba and plena traditions as they are manifested in and around Ponce. It includes a series of video-taped interviews of seven of the great living masters of the bomba and plena traditions.The exhibition was part of BomPlenazo 2006, a biennial of Afro-Puerto Rican culture produced by the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture. This show was a presentation of Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture and curated by Wallace I. Edgecombe.
Grimanesa Amoros
Between Heaven and Earth and Rootless Algas
March 29 to June 17, 2006
Reception and Bronx Culture Trolley: Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 5 to 8 p.m.
Main Gallery and Project Room
Artists: Grimanesa Amoros with Susana Baca and Hilmar Orn Hilmarson
Curators: Wallace I. Edgecombe and Edwin Ramoran
New multimedia installations with sculpture and video produced in collaboration with Peruvian vocalist Baca and Icelandic composer Hilmarson.
Concert: SUSANA BACA
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, Main Theater
450 Grand Concourse at 149th Street
Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
Do You Think I'm Disco
January 7 to March 18, 2006
Main Gallery and Project Room
Curator: Edwin Ramoran
A major group exhibition on dance music culture and contemporary art.
Artists: Matias Aguilar, Negar Ahkami, Elia Alba, Arthur Aviles Typical Theater, Larissa Bates, Ramdasha Bikceem, Brent Birnbaum, Philip Brophy, Don Bury, Karlos Carcamo, Curtis B. Carman, Mel Cheren, Phil Collins, Joe De Hoyos, Discoteca Flaming Star, Alex Donis, Carl Eckhoff, Ray Felix, Patrick "Pato" Hebert, Derek Jackson, Luis Jacob, James Jaxxa, Jayson Keeling, Swati Khurana, Kalup Linzy, Barbara Malaran, Christian Marclay, Hélio Melo, Ivan Monforte, Ronald Bruce Monroe, Carrie Moyer, Rico Reyes, Nelson Santos, Jamel Shabazz, Shinique Amie Smith, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Mickalene Thomas, Boris Torres, TSK TSK TSK, Shirley Wegner, Edwina White, Megan Whitmarsh, and Matt Wolf.
Quijotextos de Antonio Martorell
October 17 – December 7, 2005
Main Gallery and Project Room
Artist: Antonio Martorell
Solo exhibition of installation, mixed media, and sculpture by Puerto Rican artist Martorell commemorating the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes's literary classic Don Quixote.
PERFORMA 05
The First Biennial of New Visual Art Performance in New York City
Post Identity Politics Bazaar: Performance as Cultural Gift & Labor
Friday November 18, 2005
Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, New York, NY 10013
Curator: Edwin Ramoran
Artists: Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Akiko Ichikawa, Derek Jackson, Ivan Monforte, Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz, and Troy Richards
Post Plátano / Ante Formalism: Abstraction in the Bronx
September 7 to October 5, 2005
Main Gallery and Project Room
Curator: Edwin Ramoran
Artists: Yasmine Awais, Melissa A. Calderón, Arturo Carranza, Vidal Centeno, Kimberly Rene Curran, Lisa Curran, Taina Delmar, Ray Felix, G. , Isaac Garcia-Lanzó, Edwin Gonzalez, Josie Gonzalez, Skowmon Hastanan, Ixrael, Juanita Lanzó-Guilbe, Anthony D. Meyers, Luís Pagán, Kay Reese, Jose Rivera, Shazzi Thomas, and Audrey E. Wong
BX 1: First Bronx Artists Biennial
June 1 to July 27, 2005
Main Gallery
Curator: Edwin Ramoran
Artists: Beth Brideau, Howard Cash, Linda Cunningham, Alejandra Delfin, Luis Fonseca, James Gross, Daniel Hauben, Shinichiro Kitaura, Aristides Logothetis, Agnes Murray, Ron Terner, and Clara Williams
Can I Get A Witness
March 26 to May 18, 2005
Main Gallery
Guest Curator: Dean Daderko
Artists: Daniel Bozhkov, Ross Cisneros, Glen Fogel, Hope Ginsburg, Yoko Inoue, Tara Mateik, Robert Melee, Emily Roysdon, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Judi Werthein, and Matt Wolf
New Works: En Foco's Photography Awards
March 26 to May 18, 2005
Project Room
Guest Curators: Marisol Díaz and Miriam Romais, En Foco
Artists: Manuel Rivera-Ortíz, Bonnie Portelance, Nzingah Muhammad
Juror: Frank Gimpaya
Props for a Romantic Comedy
January 15 to March 12, 2005
Main Gallery
Guest Curator: Herb Tam
Artists: Paul Chan, Leah Gadd, Michael Hermann, Joonhyun Kim, Jeannette Louie, Daragh Reeves, Greg Santos, Catarina Simões, and Anna Stein
RETURN
January 15 to March 12, 2005
Project Room
Curator: Edwin Ramoran
Artist: Michael Rakowitz
Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz: Mercury/Mercurio
September 27 to December 4, 2004
Main Gallery
Curators: Wallace Edgecombe, Edwin Ramoran
Artist: Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz
Cyber_Folio 2004
September 27 to December 4, 2004
Project Room
Curators: Michelle Echevarria, Edwin Ramoran
Artists: Sung-Hee Choi, Ward Shelley, and Daniel Tisdale
Better Recognize: Bronx Artists
BRIO Visual Artists 2002-2004
July 7, 2004 to July 28, 2004
Main Gallery
Curators: Melissa A. Calderón, Edwin Ramoran
Artists: Valerie Atkisson, Timothy Blum, Ernesto Camacho, Angel E. Chevrestt, Stephanie Chisholm, Linda Cunningham, Marisol Díaz, Susan Farley, Ray Felix, James Gross, Ireena Gurvich, Daniel Hauben, Susan Markisz, Ira Merritt, and Miguelangel Ruiz
Conversions @ 149th St.
July 7, 2004 to July 28, 2004
Project Room
Guest Curator: Melissa A. Calderón
Artists: Timothy Blum, Steven Fishman, Mac McKean, Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz, SEEN, and Shinique Smith
Dina Bursztyn: Myths/Mitos
April 26, 2004 to June 26, 2004
Main Gallery
Curators: Wallace Edgecombe, Edwin Ramoran
Artist: Dina Bursztyn
Cyber_Folio: 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 Longwood Cyber Residency Artists
April 26, 2004 to June 26, 2004
Project Room
Curators: Michelle Echevarria, Edwin Ramoran
Artists: Valerie Atkisson, Florine Demosthene, Akiko Ichikawa, and Mwalim
Rehearsed: Nicolás Dumit Estévez
February 4, 2004 to April 10, 2004
Main Gallery
Curator: Edwin Ramoran
Artist: Nicolás Dumit Estévez
This is the first major solo exhibition by Dominican-born emerging artist Estévez who works primarily in performative work.
Post Plátano
February 4, 2004 to April 10, 2004
Project Room
Curators: Michelle Echevarria, Edwin Ramoran
Artists: Jorgre Aguirre and Michael Grabowski, Judith Escalona, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Iliana Emilia García, Anaida Hernández, Juanita Lanzó-Guilbe, Renzo Ortega
Bootleg Gender
December 1, 2003 to January 10, 2004
Main Gallery
Guest Curator: Rocío Aranda-Alvarado
Artists: Elia Alba, Juan Carlos Arín, Sandra Bermúdez, Kristina Jacobs, Samantha Krauss, Scherezade, and Meghan Wood
Working Towards Our Own Destruction: Utopia
December 1, 2003 to January 10, 2004
Project Space
Guest Curator: Lynn Pono, Arkipelago
Artists: Matias Aguilar, Ernest Concepcion, Louie Cordero, Ben A. Gonzales, Barbara Malaran, Riza Manalo, Taal Mayon, Emmanuel Migrino, Athena Robles, and Jun Sabayton
DL: The “Down Low” in Contemporary Art
Dates: September 29, 2003 to November 22, 2003
Main Gallery
Curator: Edwin Ramoran
Artists: Binga, Ricardo A. Bracho, Karlos Carcamo, Enrique Cruz, Alex Donis, e-mael, Ricardo Francis, Derek Jackson, Terence Koh (formerly asianpunkboy), Glenn Ligon, Ivan Monforte, Kori Newkirk, Luna Luis Ortiz, Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa (aka Devil Bunny), Susan Smith-Pinelo, Steed Taylor, and Jorge Veras.
Paradigms
September 29, 2003 to November 22, 2003
Project Room
Guest Curator: Louky Keijsers
Videos by: Michel Auder, Candice Breitz, Patty Chang, Rubén Gutiérrez, Patrick Jolley and Reynold Reynolds, Miranda July, Chloe Piene, and Karen Yasinsky.
Cyber_Folio: 2001-2002 Longwood Cyber Residency Artists
July 7, 2003 to July 31, 2003
Curators: Michelle Echevarria, Edwin Ramoran
Artists: Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Heng-Gil Han, Mary Magsamen, Moses Ros, and Jenna Spevak.
No More Drama: New Projects after Novelas
January 29 to April 11, 2003
Curator: Edwin Ramoran
Artists: Adriana Arenas Ilian, Instituto de la Telenovela (Pablo Helguera), Claudia Joskowicz, Domingo Nuño, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky
Barrios: Celebrating the Latino Neighborhoods of New York City
November 12, 2002 to January 17, 2003
Artist: John "Crash" Matos
Timothy Blum: Peripheral Whispers
September 25 to November 1, 2002
Artist: Timothy Blum
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