Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección

Maria Gaspar is an artist negotiating the politics of location through installation, sculpture, sound, and performance. She has received the Guggenheim Award for Creative Arts, Latinx Artist Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, Art for Justice Award, Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, Art Matters Grant and many others. She has exhibited extensively at venues across the US and beyond. Gaspar is an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, holds an MFA in Studio Arts from University of Illinois at Chicago, and a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Rodrigo Moura is a writer, editor and curator. He worked in Brazilian institutions such as Museu de Arte de São Paulo and Instituto Inhotim. He currently lives in New York, where he serves as the chief curator at El Museo del Barrio.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez is an artist living and working in New York City. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College (BA) and the Yale School of Art (MFA, Painting/Printmaking). Her work has been shown in the US and internationally, including at Peter Freeman, Inc., the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama and El Museo del Barrio, NY. Her work has been discussed in publications such as the Brooklyn Rail and artcritical, and on the video interview series, Gorky’s Granddaughter. She is a recipient of residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Marble House Project (Dorset, VT), and a 2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Art Award. She is a founder and publisher of the annual magazine Precog, and a co-director of the artist-run art and music initiative BombPop!Up.