SITElines.2016
much wider than a line
The second installment in the SITElines biennial series focusing on contemporary art from the Americas featured 35 artists from 16 countries, and 11 new commissions organized by a team of five curators. much wider than a line articulated the interconnectedness of the Americas and various shared experiences such as the recognition of colonial legacies, expressions of the vernacular, the influence of Indigenous understandings, and our relationship to the land.
Exhibited Artists:
Xenobia Bailey
Francisca Benitez
Lina Bo Bardi
Anna Boghiguian
Margarita Cabrera
Mariana Castillo Deball
Raven Chaco
Benvenuto Chavajay
William Cordova
Jonathas de Andrade
Lewis deSoto
Aaron Dysart
Carla Fernández
Miguel Gandert
Jeffrey Gibson
Jorge González
Pablo Helguera
Maria Hupfield
Graciela Iturbide
Sonya Kelliher-Combs
Zacharias Kunuk
David Lamelas
Cildo Meireles
Marta Minujin
Paulo Nazareth
Margaret Randall
Abel Rodríguez
Julia Rometti & Victor Costales
Conrad Skinner
Abel Rodríguez
Tanya Tagaq
Javier Téllez
Juana Valdes
Pierre Verger
Erika Verzutti
Curators:
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Pip Day, Pablo León de la Barra & Kiki Mazzucchelli
Xenobia Bailey
Sistah Paradise's Revival TentVIEW ARTISTRocío Aranda-Alvarado
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is part of the Creativity and Free Expression team. She joined Ford [Foundation] in 2018 after serving as curator at El Museo del Barrio for nearly a decade. In that role, she presented visual arts and programming that reflected the history and culture of El Barrio as well as the greater Latinx and Latin American diaspora. Prior to that, from 2000 to 2009, she was the curator at the Jersey City Museum.VIEW CURATOR