SITElines.2016
much wider than a line
The second installment in the SITElines biennial series focusing on contemporary art from the Americas featured 35 artists from 16 countries, and 11 new commissions organized by a team of five curators. much wider than a line articulated the interconnectedness of the Americas and various shared experiences such as the recognition of colonial legacies, expressions of the vernacular, the influence of Indigenous understandings, and our relationship to the land.
Exhibited Artists:
Xenobia Bailey
Francisca Benitez
Lina Bo Bardi
Anna Boghiguian
Margarita Cabrera
Mariana Castillo Deball
Raven Chacon
Benvenuto Chavajay
William Cordova
Jonathas de Andrade
Lewis deSoto
Aaron Dysart
Carla Fernández
Miguel Gandert
Jeffrey Gibson
Jorge González
Pablo Helguera
Maria Hupfield
Graciela Iturbide
Sonya Kelliher-Combs
Zacharias Kunuk
David Lamelas
Cildo Meireles
Marta Minujin
Paulo Nazareth
Margaret Randall
Abel Rodríguez
Julia Rometti & Victor Costales
Conrad Skinner
Abel Rodríguez
Tanya Tagaq
Javier Téllez
Juana Valdes
Pierre Verger
Erika Verzutti
Curators:
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Pip Day, Pablo León de la Barra & Kiki Mazzucchelli
Xenobia Bailey
Sistah Paradise's Revival TentLEARN MOREFrancisca Benitez
Francisca Benitez is a multidisciplinary artist. Born in Chile in 1974, lives and works in New York since 1998. Her artistic practice explores relatio...LEARN MORELina Bo Bardi
Lina Bo Bardi was an architect, designer, editor, and writer, whose contribution to the field of modern architecture in Brazil has been internationall...LEARN MOREAnna Boghiguian
Anna Boghiguian’s drawings, objects, poetry and prose operate both as reflections on the geopolitical conditions in which the people she encounters li...LEARN MOREMargarita Cabrera
Margarita Cabrera received an MFA from Hunter College in New York, NY. Cabrera currently lives and works in El Paso where she recently had a two-year ...LEARN MOREMariana Castillo Deball
Mariana Castillo Deball developed LEARN MORERaven Chacon
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or...LEARN MOREBenvenuto Chavajay
Guatemalan athlete Dorote Guamuch Flores (1922-2011) was born in Cotió, Mixco, near Guatemala City. He trained himself to become a competitive long-di...LEARN MOREWilliam Cordova
Interdisciplinary cultural practitioner William Cordova works at the intersection of architecture, politics, and social concerns, particularly those t...LEARN MOREJonathas de Andrade
Often drawing on historical and documental sources, Jonathas de Andrade combines textual and photographic material in works that operate in the gap be...LEARN MORELewis deSoto
Though best known for his conceptually complex multimedia work, Lewis deSoto returned to his early practice of photography in the 2012-15 series LEARN MOREAaron Dysart
With his wry sculptural work, Aaron Dysart critiques society's obsession with fixing and "improving" the natural environment. He finds it amusing, if ...LEARN MORECarla Fernández
Carla Fernández is a fashion designer and historian who for the past twenty years has studied, preserved, and revitalized the textile heritage of Mexi...LEARN MOREMiguel Gandert
Miguel Gandert's most common subject is the daily life of rural Hispanos living in the Rio Grande Valley, which stretches from Mexico to southern Colo...LEARN MOREJeffrey Gibson
Jeffrey Gibson’s work fuses his Choctaw-Cherokee heritage and experience of living in Europe, Asia, and the USA with references that span club culture...LEARN MOREJorge González
Jorge González focuses on recovering the craft knowledge of Puerto Rico, where, because of the colonial condition of the island, almost all goods are ...LEARN MOREPablo Helguera
Pablo Helguera is a New York based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance. Helguera’s...LEARN MOREMaria Hupfield
Maria Hupfield's practice centers on presence and performance. Her early work-photography and unconventional sculpture-is often focused on the idea of...LEARN MOREGraciela Iturbide
In 1978, photographer Graciela Iturbide was invited by the Archivo Etnográfico Audiovisual of the Instituto Nacional Indigenista in Mexico City to par...LEARN MORESonya Kelliher-Combs
Sonya Kelliher-Combs was raised in the Northwest Alaska community of Nome. Her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is from the University of Alaska Fairbanks...LEARN MOREZacharias Kunuk
Made entirely in the North, LEARN MOREDavid Lamelas
Argentinian-born David Lamelas made LEARN MORECildo Meireles
In the late 1960s, Cildo Meireles began his prolific career-which now spans over four decades —with drawing, later expanding his practice to include a...LEARN MOREMarta Minujín
Comunicando con tierraLEARN MOREPaulo Nazareth
Paulo Nazareth's open-ended practice emerges from his improvisational wan-derings through various countries for extended periods of time. These journe...LEARN MOREMargaret Randall
Poet, feminist, photographer, oral historian, and social activist Margaret Randall was born in New York City and grew up in New Mexico. Returning to N...LEARN MOREAbel Rodríguez
A Nonuya elder, Abel Rodríguez is from La Chorrera, on the Amazon's Igaraparaná River. This place continues to inspire his practice, which is based on...LEARN MOREJulia Rometti & Victor Costales
French-born Julia Rometti and Víctor Costales, of Belarusian-Ecuadorian ori-gins, have been working together since 2007 on a practice that has taken t...LEARN MOREConrad Skinner
Conrad Skinner, AIA, practices architecture and furniture design. He has resided in Santa Fe, NM since 1985. He has also traveled widely in Asia and E...LEARN MORETanya Tagaq
Tanya Tagaq takes the stage and begins to speak softly to the audience, giving something of an introduction to the coming evening's performance. She d...LEARN MOREJavier Téllez
Javier Téllez is a New York based artist born in Venezuela. His work reflects a sustained interest in bringing peripheral communities and invisible si...LEARN MOREJuana Valdes
Juana Valdes uses printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and site-specific installations, to explore issues of race, transnationalism, gender,...LEARN MOREPierre Verger
Pierre Verger was a photographer, ethnographer, anthropologist, historian, botanist, and one of the pioneering researchers of Afro-Brazilian religion ...LEARN MOREErika Verzutti
Erika Verzutti was born in 1971 in São Paulo. Verzutti's work LEARN MORERocío Aranda-Alvarado
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is part of the Creativity and Free Expression team. She joined Ford [Foundation] in 2018 after serving as curator at El Museo de...LEARN MOREKathleen Ash-Milby
Kathleen Ash-Milby was appointed the Curator of Native American Art in 2019 [Portland Art Museum]. Her responsibilities include the research, document...LEARN MOREPip Day
Pip Day has been Director/Curator at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art in Montreal since 2012. At SBC she initiated the long-term research-based Focus P...LEARN MOREPablo León de la Barra
Pablo León de la Barra is currently the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator Latin America at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. From 2015-2016, he served as Dir...LEARN MOREKiki Mazzucchelli
Kiki Mazzucchelli is an independent curator and writer working between London and São Paulo. Mazzucchelli was the curator of the two-partshow LEARN MORE