Burning the Mask: Exhibition Opening

The Latinx Project invites you to the opening of our spring 2026 Curatorial Open Call exhibition, titled Burning the Mask, curated by Patricia Encarnación. The opening will take place on March 19, 2026, at 20 Cooper Square in the first-floor gallery.

About the Exhibition

Featuring works by Abigail Lucien, Brenda Barrios, Coco Fusco, Emmanuel Massillon, Hazel Batrezchavez, Jeffrey Meris, Karlo Ibarra, Lizania Cruz, Sergio Forero, Vincent Valdez, and Yvette Mayorga, the exhibition foregrounds practices that confront imposed identities by metaphorically “burning” the mask: acts rooted in ancestral memory, embodied authenticity, and radical love.

To learn more about curator Patricia Encarnación, read the Q+A with TLP

About the Curator

Patricia Encarnación (she/they) is an Afro-Caribbean, New York City–based interdisciplinary artivist and scholar whose work challenges colonial tropes in Caribbean culture through an anti-colonial lens. Encarnación has participated in multiple residencies, including The Shed, Smack Mellon (as a Van Lier Fellow), MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Kovent Catalonia, and the Silver Arts Project at the World Trade Center. Their work has been recognized by CIFO, the NALAC Fund for the Arts, and the Centro León Jiménez Biennial, where Encarnación received the City of Cádiz (Spain) cultural immersion prize and a second fellowship in Martinique through the Tropiques Atrium Caribbean art program. Exhibitions of their work include Documenta 15, the Tribeca Artists Award Program, the Hudson River Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), the NADA Art Fair, and the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA). In addition to actively exhibiting, Encarnación has pursued curatorial projects at New York University (NYU), the Centro de la Imagen (CDMX), the Bronx Museum, ChaShaMa, WOPHA Miami, and alternative gallery spaces in NYC, Miami, and the Dominican Republic. Encarnación earned a full-tuition scholarship for a BFA at Parsons School of Design (The New School) and was awarded the MacCracken Fellowship for graduate studies in Caribbean and Latin American Museum Studies at New York University.

Supporters

The center’s spring exhibitions are made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Tomás Ybarra-Frausto Curatorial Fund.

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