Miami MoCAAD / Lowe Art Museum Art Basel Week Kickoff for Diago: The Pasts of This Afro Cuban Present
October 24, 2019 – January 19, 2020
A leading member of the new Afro-Cuban cultural movement, visual artist Juan Roberto Diago (b. 1971) has produced a body of work that offers a revisionist history of the Cuban nation. Featuring forty works produced by Diago over the course of his vibrant career, this exhibition was guest curated by Dr. Alejandro de la Fuente (Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies, Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and Chair of the Cuba Studies Program at Harvard University) and is presented in collaboration with the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD).
October 24, 2019 – January 19, 2020
A leading member of the new Afro-Cuban cultural movement, visual artist Juan Roberto Diago (b. 1971) has produced a body of work that offers a revisionist history of the Cuban nation. Featuring forty works produced by Diago over the course of his vibrant career, this exhibition was guest curated by Dr. Alejandro de la Fuente (Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies, Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and Chair of the Cuba Studies Program at Harvard University) and is presented in collaboration with the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD).