Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island)
November 20, 2019 – March 22, 2020 11:00am – 6:00pm
Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island)is the first museum retrospective of the prolific, innovative, and yet largely unknown artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926, Havana – lives and works in San Juan). The exhibition features over 40 works from the early 1950s to the present, including paintings, works on paper, shaped canvases, sculptural pieces, graphic illustrations, and ephemera. The retrospective traces Sánchez’s artistic journey from her early days in Cuba to her extended travels in Europe in the 1950s and residence in New York in the 1960s, and finally her move to Puerto Rico, where she has lived and worked since the early 1970s.
Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla is accompanied by a major publication and newly commissioned artist’s documentary about her life and practice.
The exhibition at El Museo del Barrio is supported by The Jacques & Natasha Gelman Foundation, with additional support from Galerie Lelong.
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Location
El Museo del Barrio New York
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
New York NY 10029 US