Guadalupe Maravilla: Si no sanas hoy, sanarás mañana

Combining sculpture, painting, performative acts, and installation, Guadalupe Maravilla (b. 1976) grounds his transdisciplinary practice in activism and healing. Engaging a wide variety of visual cultures, Maravilla’s work is autobiographical, referencing his unaccompanied, undocumented migration to the United States due to the Salvadoran Civil War. His work is in the permanent collections of many international institutions. He has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Robert Rauschenberg Award in 2024, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2019 among others. Maravilla’s work was included in the 12th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art and the 35th Bienal De São Paulo.

Eugenie Tsai is a curator and writer based in New York. After sixteen years, she recently stepped down from her position as the John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, at the Brooklyn Museum. During those years, she shaped the Contemporary collection and organized around forty loan and collection exhibitions. These include Oscar yi Hou: East of Sun, West of Moon (2022-23) and Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic (2015). Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum, she organized Robert Smithson (2004) for MOCA LA. The exhibition, which traveled to the Dallas Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, received the International Art Critics first place award for best monographic show of 2005.