Solo show
Upcoming
Juan Sánchez: States of Liberation
1 Oct 2027 — 1 Sep 2028 at Whitney Museum of American Art
· New York
Juan Sánchez: States of Liberation is 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.
Juan Sánchez: States of Liberation is co-organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. The exhibition is curated by Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; Tie Jojima, Curator of Global Contemporary Art, The Phillips Collection; and Alejandro Anreus, Guest Curator, with Carina Martinez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art.
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.
Juan Sánchez: States of Liberation is co-organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. The exhibition is curated by Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; Tie Jojima, Curator of Global Contemporary Art, The Phillips Collection; and Alejandro Anreus, Guest Curator, with Carina Martinez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art.
About the artist
Juan Sánchez
1560–1627
Juan Sánchez Cotán was a Spanish Baroque painter, a pioneer of realism in Spain. His still lifes and bodegones were painted in an austere style, especially when compared to similar works in the Netherlands and Italy.
About the artist →About the venue
Whitney Museum of American Art
· New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art is a modern and contemporary American art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The institution was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a prominent American socialite…
