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CISNEROS FONTANALS
ART FOUNDATION

We strive to inspire Latin American artists, nurture their creativity, and help them transcend as artists.

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YEARS

20

OF SUPPORTING LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS AROUND THE WORLD

Exhibitions

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Sept, 2024

HOPE – Who will turn the tide

Optimism is not the belief that things will somehow work out, but rather the confidence in our ability to influence and bring about improvement. And that perhaps best describes the essence of the principle of hope, not as a passive position, but as an active force that motivates us to keep going despite adversity.

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Sept, 2023

Dualities in Equalities: Art Technology Society in Latin America.

"Dualities in Equalities: Art, Technology, Society in Latin America" invites you to delve into the complex interplay of artistic perspectives, where diverse voices converge to illuminate the rich tapestry of the Latin American art scene.

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March 9, 2023 - June 4, 2023

Habitar (Inhabit)

This exhibition features unpublished works by nine Latin American artists selected for the 18th edition of the 2020 Grants & Commissions Program. The showcased pieces explore themes of the body and performative practice, and delve into the intersection of art and technology.

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Sept 4, 2022 - Jan 8, 2023

Plural Domains III: Selected Works

This exhibition reflects CIFO’s generational structure, showcasing established, mid-career, and emerging artists. It also highlights the geographic range of the collection, featuring artists from countries such as Venezuela, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Guatemala—many of whom have pursued their careers beyond their home countries.

Now featuring

ARS ELECTRO
NICA 2025

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Festival for Art, Technology, and Society. 

Experience firsthand how new technologies are changing our lives.

September 3-7, 2025
Linz, Austria

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Bookstore

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Books

10 Floridians

This publication features the works of 10 prominent Florida artists in conversation with nine different curators.

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Beyond Delirious/Indeterminate States

Beyond Delirious, Phillips selected photographs that address various architectural themes, by artists representing a wide range of generations, conceptual approaches, and —notably— cultural heritages

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Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art

Embracing a wide array of mediums, ranging from video, drawing, installation, photography and mixed media, this catalogue includes an exciting group of international emerging and established artists.

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Fortunate Objects

It proposes a playful, imaginative, curious and unexpected approach to objects used in daily life and presents work by international, emerging, and established artists from different generations in various media, ranging from the monumental to the intimate.

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Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices

Conceptualist Practices' articulates a number of geographical and chronological crossroads that underline the role of the artist as a historian who deploys institutional critique (frames) and who questions the means of recording memory (documents).

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How do we want to be governed? (Figure and Ground)

Was an ongoing meditation on the idea of government as it relates to individuality and power in the modern world.

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Inside Out: Photography After Form

This publication brings together contrasting images and bodies of work that examine space and form from within and without, overturning preconceptions about the potential of the photographic medium.

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Permission To Be Global / Prácticas Globales

Featuring sculpture, painting, photography, video, installation and performance art from 1960 to the present

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Pulses of Abstraction in Latin America

Geometric abstraction found its most dynamic, sensual and enduring expression in Latin America. 

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Tacita Dean: Film Works

A leading artist of her generation, Tacita Dean (b. 1965) has worked in a wide range of media but is best known for her works in film and sound.

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Books

The Prisoner's Dilemma

This catalogue was produced on the occasion of the exhibition “The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection.” 

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The Sites of Latin American Abstraction

"The Sites of Latin America” intends to explore a rarely addressed aspect of Latin American abstract art

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Unsaid / Spoken

This catalogue was published on the occasion of “Unsaid/Spoken,” 

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Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict

This exhibition includes 105 pieced by 88 artists from different generations and latitudes, who share their interpretations and philosophies of abstraction.

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TRAMAS: Gustavo Pérez Monzón

This catalog accompanies the first solo exhibition in the United States of Cuban artist, Gustavo Pérez Monzón

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Toda percepción es una interpretación: YOU ARE PART OF IT

The book is illustrated with more than 50 photographs in color presented with texts and statements from the artists in the exhibition.

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Books

Adiós Utopia: Art in Cuba Since 1950

Through research and critique, the publication establishes a meaningful dialogue that demystifies the preconceived narratives that have characterized Cuban art during the Revolution. 

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No Black / No White (no and): On Latin American Art in the 21st Century

A selection of over 200 images of artwork created for CIFO's Grants & Commissions Program throughout the last 15 years allows the reader to join the authors in interrogating the systems at play in our complex and at times perplexing contemporary environment.

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