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Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island)
Exhibition
Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island)
20 Nov 2019 – 22 Mar 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Address
- 1230 Fifth Avenue
- New York
New York - 10029
- United States
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).
About
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 presentation of Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island) at El Museo del Barrio is supported by The Jacques & Natasha Gelman Foundation and TheIsabel and Agustín Coppel Collection, with additional support from Galerie Lelong & Co.
