Join us for an afternoon with the Hostos Archives to celebrate its new digital repository showcasing the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art Collection. The event will launch the open access portal Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York, an online gallery containing a dazzling array of exhibition catalogues and other primary sources only a keyboard search away. As part of the celebration we will be hosting Taína Caragol, Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Latino Art and History at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian. Her talk will focus on MoCHA as a trailblazing and innovative museum that exhibited Latinx/e artists not traditionally recognized by mainstream art institutions both in the U.S. and Latin America.

Taína Caragol is Curator of painting, sculpture, and Latinx art and history at the National Portrait Gallery. Her scholarship focuses on Latinx and Latin American art and its institutional and market validation, as well as on the recovery of histories suppressed by colonialism. Since her hiring in 2013 the museum’s holdings have grown by more than 250 portraits of Latinx historical figures. Her curated or co-curated exhibitions include Portraiture Now: Stanging the Self, One Life: Dolores Huerta, and UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light, Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar, and the landmark 1898: US Imperial Visions and Revisions, which examined from a comparative perspective the US thrust for overseas expansion in 1898 and how it was received in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, and Hawai‘i. She was also guest curator of the 2023 Arizona Biennial at the Tucson Museum of Art.

With Kate Clarke Lemay, she is co-curator of 1898: US Imperial Visions and Revisions, a.

Caragol has a B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Puerto Rico, an M.A. in French Studies from Middlebury College, and a Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Directions to Campus > Campus Map > Hostos Research Center, Building C, Rm 130 

For more information contact Jorge Matos at jmatos@hostos.cuny.edu (718) 518-4149

The digital gallery featured at the event is hosted online by the generous support of the Metropolitan Library Council of New York.

Image: Luis Cruz Azaceta, Tough Ride Around the City, 1981. Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art Collection, Hostos Community College Archives, CUNY.