Description
Welcome! Join us at our El Museo’s Exhibitions:
Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021-2025
August 28, 2025—Summer 2026
Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021–2025 debuts recently accessioned works to El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection. Meaning “hanging out with your friends,” the Spanglish title plays on multiple definitions including socializing and installing artworks in a gallery setting. At a time when many of the communities represented by El Museo del Barrio are under attack, these multiple interpretations of the word imply both solidarity and a political call to action through holding space and kinship.
Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island
September 18, 2025—March 1, 2026
El Museo del Barrio is proud to present the first U.S. survey of influential Cuban-American artist, writer, and activist Coco Fusco (b. 1960, lives in New York). A renowned artist, writer, and activist, Fusco has been globally lauded for her distinctly perceptive, acerbic, and piercing voice. Since the 1990s, her films, photographs, texts, installations, and performances have addressed the dynamics of politics and power in relation to issues of representation, culture, and institutional critique. The exhibition will include more than three decades of Fusco’s artistic production, positioning her as one of the foremost artists shaping the contemporary art field. Spanning her now-canonical performance "Two Undiscovered Amerindians Discover the West" (presented with Guillermo Gomez-Peña) to her on-going investigation of post-revolutionary Cuban history and her most recent photographic explorations around U.S. politics, the show will offer an expansive view of her multidisciplinary career.
SOPHIE RIVERA: DOUBLE EXPOSURES
April 23 – August 2, 2026
El Museo del Barrio is proud to present SOPHIE RIVERA: DOUBLE EXPOSURES, the first museum survey dedicated to the groundbreaking photographer Sophie Rivera (1938–2021). Opening April 23, 2026, the exhibition offers a long-overdue reevaluation of Rivera’s contributions to photography and Nuyorican visual culture, while celebrating her deep, historic connection to El Museo—where she organized exhibitions and held her first solo show in the 1980s.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Hours: El Museo del Barrio’s galleries and La Tienda are open Thursdays - Sundays from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Community Partners: If you are part of a local or family organization partnering with El Museo, please refer to the email you received from us for your assigned discount code. Enter this code when reserving your ticket. For assistance, email emdbtickets@elmuseo.org.
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO MEMBERS
El Museo individual and corporate members enjoy free admission. Current members will receive an email from our membership office with a discount code to be entered when reserving tickets. For more information on membership, please email members@elmuseo.org.
Date & Time
Aug 28, 2025 - Jun 28, 2026
Venue Details
El Museo del Barrio
1230 5th AvenueNew York, New York 10029
