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2 unusual facts about El Museo del Barrio


Edgar Soberón

Soberón's work can be found in the Permanent Collection of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC, The Hechinger Collection, Washington DC, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum of Art,Rutgers Archives for Printmaking, New Brunschwig, N.J, The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama and El Museo del Barrio, New York, N.Y.

Soberón's work has been in numerous exhibitions, including two important Still Life Survey Exhibitions: Silent Thing Secret Things, Still Life Painting from Rembrandt to the Milleneum, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1999-2000 and Reflections of Time and Place: Latin American Still Life in the 20th Century, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York and El Museo del Barrio, New York, N.Y.


Leandro Katz

Leandro Katz has exhibited as an artist, and screened his films, at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, El Museo del Barrio, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, the Chicago Art Institute, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, the Bienal de La Habana, Cuba, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, among others.

Rooftop Films

The screenings all take place on rooftops or in other scenic outdoor locations throughout New York City, including the roof of the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Open Road Rooftop in the Lower East Side, the lawn at Automotive High School in Williamsburg, the roof of El Museo del Barrio, the roof of Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, and more.


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