Liliana Porter, Artist
Ana Tiscornia, Artist
In conversation with Pablo León de la Barra, Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
In collaboration with Fundación Cervieri Monsuárez
In Spanish, without translation.
Open to the public.
Liliana Porter (1941, Argentina) has lived in New York since 1964. Working across various media including printmaking, painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, theater, and public art, her most recent solo exhibitions include SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia; Artium in Vitoria, Spain; National Museum of Visual Arts in Montevideo; Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires; Franklin Rawson Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in San Juan, Argentina; Museum of Art of Zapopan in Guadalajara, Mexico; Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco; Espacio Minimo in Madrid; Sicardi Gallery in Houston; Ruth Benzacar Gallery in Buenos Aires; and Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston, MA. Her work was included in Viva Arte Viva at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017); Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960-1985 at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, 2017); Etre Moderne: Le MOMA a Paris at the Louis Vuitton Foundation (Paris, 2017); and Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney Collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, 2017). Porter’s theatrical works include Domar al león y otras dudas (2017) and THEM (2018), co-directed with Ana Tiscornia.
Ana Tiscornia (1951, Montevideo) has lived in New York since 1991. Her solo exhibitions include Ana Tiscornia at OMI (Ghent, New York, 2018), Colateral o Premeditado at Nora Fisch Gallery (Buenos Aires, 2017), and Des-habitaciones at Galería del Paseo (Lima, 2015). She has participated in group exhibitions such as The Props assist the House at Bel Ami Gallery (Los Angeles, 2019) and Latinoamérica: Volver al futuro at MACBA (Buenos Aires, 2018). Tiscornia represented Uruguay at the II and IX Havana Biennials (Cuba) and the III Lima Biennial (Peru). She is an Emeritus Professor at State University of New York and former director of the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery.
Pablo León de la Barra (1972, Mexico City) Pablo León de la Barra earned his Ph.D. in Histories and Theories from the Architectural Association in London. Since 2013, he has served as Curator for Latin America at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where he curated the exhibitions Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today (2014–16), Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene (2022), and Gego: Measuring Infinity (2023). He is also responsible for acquiring and showcasing works by Latin American artists for the museum. León de la Barra was Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (2016–2020) and co-founder/co-curator of the 1st and 2nd Tropical Biennials in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2011 and 2016). Over more than two decades of curatorial work, he has organized numerous international exhibitions and was co-curator of the Santa Fe Biennial in New Mexico (2017) as well as the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017, where he presented the work of Carlos Amorales. In 2012, he received the first Travel and Research Grant from Independent Curators International/Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection for Central America and the Caribbean, in honor of Virginia Pérez-Ratton. He serves on several advisory boards, including the Luis Barragán Foundation in Mexico, the Nasher Sculpture Prize in Dallas, and the Salta Art Foundation in Munich. Additionally, he is the Chair of the Jury for the Prince Claus Fund Impact Awards in the Netherlands.