GrantMay 22, 2021
Cisneros Institute announced the 2020-21 Fellowships and grants
Each year, the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America presents three fellowships for scholars, artists, and MoMA staff. Intending to stimulate diverse methodologies for studying art with collection-based research, the Fellowships and Grants Program of the Cisneros Institute supports new research by scholars, curators, and artists on art from Latin America.
The Artist Research Fellowship has been granted to Iosu Aramburu. He works with painting, sculpture, and installation, exploring the imagination of multifaceted modernity and its utopian potentials. Aramburu will develop a research project that revisits early and mid-century modernism in the Andean region. He will build a virtual Atlas of forgotten images, aiming to map the changing sensibilities.
The Latin American Collection Fellowship has been awarded to Heloisa Espada, a scholar, and curator at the Instituto Moreira Salles since 2008. She holds a Ph.D. in arts (art history and art criticism) from the School of Communications and Arts from the University of São Paulo (2011). Her research project will study the Ruptura group, active in São Paulo from the late 1940s to 1960, focusing on the group’s internal conflicts; its contributions to several exhibitions; its role in Paulista politics; and the differences between works produced during the group’s early years and the late 1950s. She will investigate MoMA’s collection and the works by Waldemar Cordeiro, Geraldo de Barros, Luiz Sacilotto, Alexandre Wollner, Hermelindo Fiaminghi, and Judith Lauand.
Due to the travel bans resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, this fellowship—normally the Research Grant for MoMA and MoMA PS1 Curators—will temporarily support the research of a curator based in Latin America. The independent curator Catarina Duncan is the recipient of the Curatorial Fellowship. Duncan will develop the project Territorial Re-connections, a study of the work of three collectives: Colectivo Amasijo (Mexico), Grupo Nzinga (Brazil), and Mujeres Creando(Bolivia). Communally, they will develop a research process that fosters exchanges between women-led art collectives and land-rights movements in Latin America.
The Artist Research Fellowship has been granted to Iosu Aramburu. He works with painting, sculpture, and installation, exploring the imagination of multifaceted modernity and its utopian potentials. Aramburu will develop a research project that revisits early and mid-century modernism in the Andean region. He will build a virtual Atlas of forgotten images, aiming to map the changing sensibilities.
The Latin American Collection Fellowship has been awarded to Heloisa Espada, a scholar, and curator at the Instituto Moreira Salles since 2008. She holds a Ph.D. in arts (art history and art criticism) from the School of Communications and Arts from the University of São Paulo (2011). Her research project will study the Ruptura group, active in São Paulo from the late 1940s to 1960, focusing on the group’s internal conflicts; its contributions to several exhibitions; its role in Paulista politics; and the differences between works produced during the group’s early years and the late 1950s. She will investigate MoMA’s collection and the works by Waldemar Cordeiro, Geraldo de Barros, Luiz Sacilotto, Alexandre Wollner, Hermelindo Fiaminghi, and Judith Lauand.
Due to the travel bans resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, this fellowship—normally the Research Grant for MoMA and MoMA PS1 Curators—will temporarily support the research of a curator based in Latin America. The independent curator Catarina Duncan is the recipient of the Curatorial Fellowship. Duncan will develop the project Territorial Re-connections, a study of the work of three collectives: Colectivo Amasijo (Mexico), Grupo Nzinga (Brazil), and Mujeres Creando(Bolivia). Communally, they will develop a research process that fosters exchanges between women-led art collectives and land-rights movements in Latin America.
