Saturday, May 2, 2026
3 PM
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Explore our current exhibition season on Venezuelan art during this special event. Art historian Sean Nesselrode Moncada will discuss Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color at Stake, followed by a reception and an opportunity to visit Claudio Perna: Idea como Arte, Spotlight presentations on Alejandro Otero and Diego Barboza, and our Research Center.

The event will take place at ISLAA, located at 142 Franklin Street in Tribeca, and will be in English. Capacity is limited, and attendees are encouraged to register in advance.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER 

Sean Nesselrode Moncada (he/him) is associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design and a historian of Latin American and Latinx art, architecture, and visual culture. His research focuses on visual and material modernisms, their uneven implementation across the hemisphere and their contested social and ecological dimensions. In his courses, he invites students to consider how images proliferate and behave in the world, encouraging an expanded view of what constitutes artistic production and who merits inclusion in our received histories in this place called America. 

Nesselrode Moncada is the author of Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity (University of California Press, 2023), which examines the material, spatial, and theoretical development of Venezuelan modernisms through the lens of petroleum extraction and refinement. It is the recipient of the ALAA–Arvey Foundation Book Award (Association for Latin American Art), the Fernando Coronil Prize for Best Book on Venezuela (Venezuelan Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association) and the Best Book Award in Visual Culture Studies (Latin American Studies Association).