This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975. February 2–May 14, 2022. Americas Society. New York – Usa.

This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, a group exhibition exploring the work of a generation of migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean who created and exhibited in New York City between 1965 and 1975. The exhibition maps the connections and spaces these artists created in the city and offers a much-needed reevaluation of the 1960s and 1970s American art. Embracing experimental practices such as Happenings, minimalism, conceptualism, performance, and video art, the artists featured in the show created artworks centering on issues of community, identity, and belonging that brought unique perspectives to the neo-avant-garde art scene in New York.

It was in New York that many of these artists recognized themselves as Latin Americans, something they did not necessarily realize back home. By being in contact with migrants from other parts of the continent, they forged a new sense of self as Latin Americans that resisted the stereotypes imposed on them by American culture.