HOME—So Different, So Appealing November 17, 2017–January 21, 2018
Livia Corona Benjamin, 47,547 Homes, 2000, C-Print, ed. 5+2 AP, courtesy of the artist and Parque Galeria. © 2009 Livia Corona Benjamin
Camilo Ontiveros, Temporary Storage: The Belongings of Juan Manuel Montes, 2009, personal belongings of Juan Manuel Montes, rope, metal sawhorse, aluminum base, and wood sculpture, courtesy of the artist. © Camilo Ontiveros / Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Mondongo, Polyptych of Buenos Aires, 2014/16, clay, wax, tar, steel threads, and cotton threads on wood, courtesy of the artists. © Mondongo / Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Miguel Ángel Rojas, Nowadays, 2001/08, coca leaves mounted on acetate, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the artist in honor of María Inés Sicardi and her son Maximiliano Rivarola in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Sicardi Gallery. © Miguel Ángel Rojas / Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Abraham Cruzvillegas, Autoconstrucción, 2013, installation, courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City. © Abraham Cruzvillegas / Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Beatriz González, Gratia plena (tocador), 1971, industrial enamel on a metal sheet assembled on a wooden vanity table, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the 2007 Latin American Experience Gala and Auction. © Beatriz González
Información en español sobre la exposición
“A truly astonishing show” —Huffington Post
HOME—So Different, So Appealing features U.S. Latino and Latin American artists from the late 1950s to the present who use the universal concept of “home” as a lens through which to view socioeconomic and political changes in the Americas over the past seven decades. More than 100 works by 39 artists explore the differences and similarities within art related to immigration and political repression; dislocation and diaspora; and personal memory and utopian ideals.
The exhibition brings together U.S. artists of Cuban, Mexican, and Puerto Rican origin in a dialogue with artists from Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela, among other countries. Despite the political, cultural, and religious affinities they share, these two broad and highly diverse groups have been, until now, treated separately from one another.
Across a variety of media—including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, film, and video—these artists examine and interpret one of the most basic social concepts by which individuals, families, nations, and regions understand themselves in relation to others. In the process, these works of art also offer an alternative narrative of postwar and contemporary art.
The artists featured in HOME—So Different, So Appealing are Laura Aguilar, Allora & Calzadilla, Carmen Argote, Andres Asturias, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Myrna Báez, Antonio Berni, Johanna Calle, Luis Camnitzer, Leyla Cardenas, Livia Corona Benjamin, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel de la Mora, Perla de Leon, Christina Fernandez, León Ferrari, Ramiro Gomez, Beatriz González, Félix González-Torres, María Teresa Hincapié, Salomón Huerta, Jessica Kaire, Guillermo Kuitca, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Antonio Martorell, Gordon Matta-Clark, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Mondongo, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Julio Cesar Morales, Jorge Pedro Núñez, Camilo Ontiveros, Pepón Osorio, Miguel Angel Rios, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Doris Salcedo, Juan Sanchez, Teresa Serrano, and Vincent Valdez.
Learn More
Go behind the scenes with videos and artists’ personal stories in a series of HOME blog posts.
Publication
The illustrated exhibition catalogue is available through the MFA Shop (713.639.7360) and the Museum’s Hirsch Library (713.639.7325).
Video
Watch a conversation between artist Guillermo Kuitca and Mari Carmen Ramírez, the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art for the MFAH.
This exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with the support of the Getty Foundation.
In Houston, the exhibition is supported by:
Leslie and Brad Bucher
Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation
Gail and Louis Adler
Mike Loya
Sara and Bill Morgan
Olive McCollum Jenney
Ms. Victoria Goldstein and Mr. Randall H. Jamail
Jorge and Darlene Pérez
Sofia Adrogué and Sten L. Gustafson
Samuel F. Gorman
Linda and George Kelly
SICARDI AYERS BACINO
Mark and Mary Troth
Ileana and J. Michael Treviño
Additional generous support is provided by the Latin Maecenas, the patron group for the Latin American art department at the MFAH.