Spring 2026 Series
Teresita Fernández / Tuesday, February 3
Claire Bishop / Tuesday, February 17
Marcela Guerrero / Tuesday, April 28
Teresita Fernández
in Conversation with Dolores Zinny
Tuesday, February 3
Falvey Hall, Brown Center
4:30 p.m.
(Image Credit: Axel Dupeux)
Teresita Fernández’s work is characterized by an expansive rethinking of what constitutes landscape: from the subterranean to the cosmic, from national borders, to the more elusive psychic landscapes we carry within. Fernández unravels the intimacies between matter, human beings, and locations. Her luminous, sculptural works poetically challenges ideas about land and landscape by exposing the history of colonization and the inherent violence embedded in how we imagine and define place, and, by extension, one another. Questions of power, visibility, and erasure are important tenets of Fernández’s work, which confronts these themes in subtle ways that insist on intertwining beauty, the socio-political, the intimate, and the immense.
Fernández is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards, including a: Guggenheim Fellowship; Creative Capital Award; Meridian Cultural Diplomacy Award; Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award; American Academy of Rome Fellowship; and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant. Her works have been shown both nationally and internationally at The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art; The Menil Collection; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, among others. In 2011, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and is the first Latina to serve on the 100-year-old federal panel. In 2016, she conceived and directed the U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium with the Ford Foundation
Dolores Zinny is a Whitney Museum ISP (1995-96) alumni, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock Krasner Fellowship, a IASPIS Swedish Arts Grant , a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program Award, and 1st Prize for International Public Art Competition of Hessen, Goethe University, Frankfurt. As part of the artist duo Zinny Maidagan, her work has been exhibited internationally, in venues like the 50th Venice Biennial, the 2nd Sevilla Biennial, the 5th Berlin Biennial, the 8th Gwangju Biennial, with exhibitions at LACMA los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art, MIT, The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, Artist Space New York, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Museo Tamayo Mexico City, DAAD Galerie-Berlin, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Museo Nacional Bellas Artes Buenos Aires and Singapore National Gallery.
Claire Bishop
Ancestral Avant-gardes
Tuesday, February 17
Lazarus Auditorium, Fred Lazarus IV Center
4:30 p.m.
(Image Credit: Sarah Blesener)
Claire Bishop is an art critic and historian based in New York at CUNY Graduate Center. Her books include Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Verso, 2012, winner of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism), a book of conversations with the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (Cisneros, 2020), and Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Verso, 2024, shortlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award). She is a a Contributing Editor of Artforum, a Guggenheim Fellow (2024), and her essays and books have been translated into twenty languages.
Marcela Guerrero
Tuesday, April 28
Lazarus Auditorium, Fred Lazarus IV Center
4:00 p.m.
(Image Credit: Javier Romero)
Marcela Guerrero is the DeMartini Family Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2026, Guerrero along with Drew Sawyer curated the 82nd edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States. Also at the Whitney Museum, she curated no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria (2022-23), Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art (2018), and she was part of the curatorial team that organized Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 (2020).
From 2014 to 2017 she was a Curatorial Fellow at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where she worked on the exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta, and organized as part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative. Prior to joining the Hammer, she worked in the Latin American and Latino art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she served as research coordinator for the International Center for the Arts of the Americas. Guerrero’s writing has appeared in several exhibition catalogues and in art journals such as caa.reviews, ArtNexus, Caribbean Intransit: The Arts Journal, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and Diálogo. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Guerrero holds a PhD in art history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.