
Latinx Art and Artists
Discover works by Latinx artists from across the United States. Explore their processes, ideas, and stories. Browse events highlighting their voices and perspectives.
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Open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is always free
6th and Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20565
Open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is always free
6th and Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20565
Discover works by Latinx artists from across the United States. Explore their processes, ideas, and stories. Browse events highlighting their voices and perspectives.
Meet the country’s leading painters who developed their own style of modern art.
Photographers of the 1970s revolutionized the medium through innovations of both style and subject.
Learn about the lives and works of artists of Latin American descent working in the United States from the 1930s to today.
How contemporary artists working in El Paso and Juárez counter mainstream narratives of the region.
You may know Georgia O’Keeffe, but have you heard of Tonita Peña? Learn about the many artists inspired by the Southwest.
The New York–based Latina artist finds deep connections between rest, nature, and womanhood in her vibrant paintings.
From his construction process to the mysticism of vejigantes, Lind-Ramos guides us through his upbringing in Loíza, Puerto Rico, and the myriad of inspirations for his art.
Over 50 years and across many styles and mediums, the artist probed his roots.
See her photograph's ties to Edward Hopper and Dorothea Lange.
Join María Magdalena Campos-Pons and her gathering of women artists as they celebrate the roles women have played in the progress of the United States and perform a “cleansing gesture” for future generations.
Mario García Torres explores the war in Afghanistan through art, struggling to come to terms with violence there and at his home in Mexico through his artwork, Today (News from Kabul).
Installation view of Miguel Luciano, Shields/Escudos, 2020, in no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 23, 2022–April 23, 2023). Photograph by Ryan Lowry.
The artist confronts us with the contemporary Puerto Rican experience.
Filmed over the course of a month, watch visitors interact with Felix Gonzalez-Torres's Untitled at the National Gallery of Art.
Teresita Fernández invited us to be the first to film her renovated Brooklyn studio and the installation of Paradise Parados, her site-specific, monumental sculpture at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Through her evocative installations, the pioneering Chicana artist seeks to connect the past with the present.
Artist Daniel Lind-Ramos builds his sculpture Figura de Poder, a towering and provocative work that conjures up the spirit of the vejigante with mysticism, music, and activism.
The Venezuelan American artist was wildly famous in the 1960s and ’70s for sculptures that have many sources, but defy categories.
Use our guide to explore works by Latinx artists on view in our galleries.
Still from Juan Mora Catlett’s Betty y Pancho (1998) courtesy of Juan Mora Catlett
Firmas para la Paz, Elizabeth Catlett lino cut; 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Firmas para la Paz, Elizabeth Catlett lino cut; 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Still from Juan Mora Catlett’s Betty y Pancho (1998) courtesy of Juan Mora Catlett
Still from Juan Mora Catlett’s Betty y Pancho (1998) courtesy of Juan Mora Catlett
Still from Juan Mora Catlett’s Betty y Pancho (1998) courtesy of Juan Mora Catlett
Still from Juan Mora Catlett’s Betty y Pancho (1998) courtesy of Juan Mora Catlett
Firmas para la Paz, Elizabeth Catlett lino cut; 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Firmas para la Paz, Elizabeth Catlett lino cut; 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Firmas para la Paz, Elizabeth Catlett lino cut; 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Firmas para la Paz, Elizabeth Catlett lino cut; 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Firmas para la Paz, Elizabeth Catlett lino cut; 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Firmas para la Paz, Elizabeth Catlett lino cut; 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY