Juan Sánchez: States of Liberation will be the first traveling retrospective devoted to Juan Sánchez , one of the founding figures of Latinx art in the United States. For more than four decades, Sánchez has created a powerful and deeply personal body of work rooted in the histories, politics, and spiritual traditions of the working-class and Puerto Rican communities that shaped his upbringing in New York.
Across more than 60 works, including paintings, works on paper, photography, and video, the exhibition weaves together the narrative threads of autobiography, community, nation, and utopia. Together, these works offer a comprehensive look at Sánchez’s expansive practice and his sustained engagement with identity, collective memory, colonialism, resistance, and the possibility of social transformation.
Whitney Museum of American Art