“OUTSIDE/IN: RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN CUBAN & CUBAN DIASPORA ART” – PANEL

CÉSAR E. TRASOBARES is an artist, art activist, author, public art consultant, and curator. He has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cintas Foundation, and Art Matters. His recent solo exhibitions include CUBAN STREAMS: 1855-1965 for the Legacy Gallery at Miami Dade College’s historic Freedom Tower and Redacted at LnS Gallery in Coconut Grove, Miami. He formerly served as executive director of Metro-Dade’s Art in Public Places Program (1985-1990), overseeing the completion of important site-specific artworks for various government buildings, community centers, and parks.

ELIZABETH THOMPSON GOIZUETA teaches Hispanic studies and Latin American and Peninsular art, culture, and literature at Boston College. She has served as a curator at Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art since 2004 and curated exhibitions there on Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Mariano Rodríguez, and Rafael Soriano. Her exhibitions have traveled to the Pérez Art Museum Miami, High Museum of Art Atlanta, Casa de América Madrid, and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. In addition to editing five exhibition catalogs, she has published numerous essays on Spanish and Latin American artists.

GEAN MORENO is the director of the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at ICA Miami. He is also is the founder and current co-director of [NAME] Publications, a press dedicated to art and design theory. Moreno has organized exhibitions dedicated to the work of Hélio Oiticica (2017), Terry Adkins (2017), Shuvinai Ashoona (2022), Larry Bell (2019), Ettore Sottsass (2019), and others. He has also contributed texts to various catalogs and publications, including e-flux journal, Kaleidoscope, and Art in America, and edited the anthology Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art (Verso). His Carlos Alfonzo: Late Paintings (William Morrow Paperbacks) is the first monograph dedicated to the artist in more than 25 years and is a companion to ICA Miami’s exhibition “Carlos Alfonzo: Late Paintings.” and fills a historical gap in the arts with newly commissioned scholarship, materials from the archives, and a comprehensive selection of paintings. The first part of the book provides the most comprehensive gathering of Alfonzo’s last works – including those responding to the AIDS crisis and his deep exploration of art historical tropes. The second part focuses on pieces from the rest of his career, from drawings and sculptures that he produced in Havana in the late 1970s to the dynamic compositions that brought him international recognition in the '80s.