24 Latin American Art Scholars Named ISLAA Fellows
New leaders at the Portland Art Museum and Storm King Art Center, a West Coast art magazine closes, and more in this week's Art Movements.
Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other art-world happenings. Today, we report on a new cohort of fellows at ISLAA, the bittersweet closure of a West Coast arts magazine, Mamdani's plans for Elizabeth Street Garden, and new leaders at SFMOMA, the Portland Art Museum, and more.
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art Announces 2026 Fellows
The curatorial practices of the Bienal de La Habana, neográfica in Mexico, women printmakers in Buenos Aires, and a Chilean artist’s experiments with early artificial intelligence: These are just some of the areas and topics that 24 scholars will delve into as 2026–27 fellows at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).
The New York City nonprofit this week announced the cohort of 16 Latin American scholars and eight US-based PhD researchers for this year's program, a record size for ISLAA's fellowship. They are Gonzalo Aguilar, Amaury A. García Rodríguez, Daniel Link, Isabel Plante, Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela, Mónica Amieva Montañez, Fernando García, Lucía Laumann, Farah Beatriz Leyva Batlle, Ayelen Pagnanelli, Julián Sánchez González, Torrivilla, Ana Inciarte, Letícia Asfora Falabella Leme, Danila Desirée Nieto, Pedro Edgar Rizo Peña, Pablo Guarín Robledo, Leandro Martínez Depietri, Michelle Patiño-Flores, Doreen Ríos, Jana Soler Libran, Natasha Tiniacos Ferrer, Henry Neim Osman, and Cristalina Parra.
Each fellow will spend two to four weeks accessing ISLAA’s Research Center in Tribeca, which houses over 1,000 archival collections, artist files, and primary sources on modern and contemporary art in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ariel Aisiks, founder of ISLAA, told Hyperallergic that an initial pool of 13 recipients was expanded to 24 “in response to the strength of the applications.”
“The response to this call revealed the depth of the research now taking place across the Americas,” Aisiks said.
The Portland Art Museum Has a New Director
Michael J. Anderson has been appointed to lead the Oregon institution starting October 12. Anderson, currently president and CEO of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, succeeds Brian Ferriso, who stepped down to lead the Dallas Museum of Art last summer.
