About
Neo-Latino Collective is a group of working artists who come together to collaborate, curate, and create space for the Latinx voice in the arts today. Based in New Jersey but with a community branching across the United States and beyond, the group has produced events and exhibitions in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York.
In a country where people and culture are constantly in flux and moving towards a Latinx-integrated/majority/infused future, Neo-Latino believes that the presence and voice of Latinx in the arts is critical and constant.
From its founding in 2003, when the late-Raúl Villarreal (1964 - 2019) named the cohort: “The Neo-Latinos;” the group continues to be the oldest coast-to-coast Latinx art movement of the 21st Century, assembling a Pan-Latinx transcultural amalgam of visual artists, whose ancestral identities can be traced to over a dozen Latin-nations, myriad ethnicities, and cultures.
Over the years, through numerous artistic collaborations, kindling a host of concomitant curated exhibitions, Neo-Latinx artists aspire to create viable spaces for Latinx visual art to flourish, be seen, and accepted.
In the visual arts, Neo-Latinoism advances and manifests fluid and conditional aspects of ethno-cultural, as well as national identity formation.
Additionally, the movement seeks a cultural amalgam characterized by transcultural fertilization, artistic evolution, and by the sedimentary “visual” fusion of diverse cultural symbols and elements. Thus, through the lens of visual culture, Neo-Latinos strive in their art to present a more complex, prismatic vision of Latinx identity, subjectivity and consciousness.
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Board Members
Nelson Alvarez
Michael Barreto
Monica S. Camin
Christie Devereaux
Lisette Morel
Board Affiliates
Olga Mercedes Bautista
Ricardo Fonseca
Contact
Please send inquiries to:
neolatinocollective@gmail.com