About
The Art at Americas Society program boasts the longest-standing space in the United States dedicated to exhibiting and promoting art from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. Since the mid-1960s, Americas Society has been producing both historical and contemporary exhibitions, publications, as well as public and educational programs, featuring outstanding artists, curators, critics, and scholars. Promoting a plural view of culture from the continent, Americas Society has achieved a unique and renowned leadership position in the field.
Members play a fundamental role in Americas Society's cultural activities. Join today.
Learn about Americas Society's Performance Series.
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Gallery Hours
Our gallery is open. Beatriz Cortez x rafa esparza: Earth and Cosmos, Inter-American Review, and the latest editions of our Flag Series, Lienzo para Guiarse en un Viaje de Ida y Vuelta, and our Atrium Series, Dainzu, Building A, Stone 1, illuminated text, are all on view.
Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday: 11:00 am to 6:00 pm
Admission is free. No appointment necessary. Masks are encouraged.
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ADDRESS
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
(212) 249-8950
Take the 6 train to 68th Street/Hunter College or the F and Q train to Lexington Ave/63rd Street. We are located on the northwest corner of East 68th Street and Park Avenue.
Beatriz Cortez x rafa esparza: Earth and Cosmos
This exhibition, open through May, highlights the ongoing conversations and collaborations between the Los Angeles-based artists.
Inter-American Review
On the occasion of Americas Society’s 60th anniversary, artists Fernando Bryce and Nicole Franchy curate an archival intervention, running through 2025.
Atrium Series: Gala Porras-Kim, Dainzu, Building A, Stone 1, illuminated text, 2022.
Gala Porras-Kim’s Dainzu, Building A, Stone 1, illuminated text is on view through July 26, 2025
Flag Series: Kaqjay, Lienzo para Guiarse en un Viaje de Ida y Vuelta, 2024
Since 2020, the Flag Series presents public artworks from artists across the Americas, bringing their contributions to audiences in New York.
Fanny Sanín: Geometric Equations
Americas Society presents the first institutional survey presentation of the Colombian artist Fanny Sanín in New York, starting June 4
Amazonia
The exhibition, which runs September 3, 2025 through April 18, 2026, considers the plural region encompassing territories and peoples of many countries.
Telenovela
The exhibition, scheduled for Fall 2026, explores the psychological and philosophical principle of the melodrama genre.
In collaboration with Asia Art Archive in America, the exhibition presented books and archival materials from September 4 to December 14, 2024.
Since 2020, the Flag Series presents public artworks from artists across the Americas, bringing their contributions to audiences in New York.
Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza will share insights into their work in conversation with Carin Kuoni, Rachel Remick, and Aimé Iglesias Lukin.
Presented by Americas Society and the Institute of Fine Arts, the two-day symposium is in conjunction with Fanny Sanín: Geometric Equations.
The Venezuelan-Korean artist will make their debut performance as part of the Art at Americas Society's Performance Series.
The two institutions host an afternoon-long program, which includes an artist spotlight, a roundtable, and a keynote presentation by Tao Leigh Goffe.
El Dorado: A Reader
Published with the exhibition El Dorado: Myths of Gold, the book investigates how a legend as malleable as gold itself has alchemized from myth to reality.
El Dorado: Myths of Gold Exhibition Catalog
This is a publication released to accompany an Americas Society exhibition exploring the legend as a foundational myth of the Americas.
Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body Pocket Book
This is a publication released to accompany Americas Society exhibition on the Chilean visual and performance artist.
Artists Cortez and esparza discuss the influence of migration, time and the Earth on their exhibition, on view at Americas Society through May 17, 2025.
Art at Americas Society hosted a conversation exploring the impacts of community collaboration with the founding members of the diasporic group.
Watch co-curators Tie Jojima and Yudi Rafael speak about the intention behind the exhibition, on view through December 14 at Americas Society in New York.
The Art at Americas Society program has demonstrated a strong commitment to education and public engagement in its 50 years of history. Art events are free and welcome all audiences, including families, students, teachers, and scholars. Public programs and bilingual tours stimulate an interest in learning about art of the Americas among diverse communities.
Art at Americas Society offers regular private group tours of the exhibitions. Tours cater to all levels of learning, including K-12 and university classes, as well as adult groups, and are available in both English and Spanish.
In addition to a commitment to foster education and encourage higher learning, the Art program provides internships for future arts professionals.
To schedule a tour for your class or group, please contact: art@as-coa.org
Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl at Americas Society. (Image: OnWhiteWall.com)
The Arts of the Americas Circle is a dynamic group of collectors and arts lovers, involved in historical, modern, and contemporary art and culture from the region. All funds provide crucial support for our Art at Americas Society exhibitions, publications, and public programs at Americas Society throughout the year. To support our Art program, the Americas Society requests Arts of the Americas Circle patrons to make an annual contribution to provide critical financial support for the organization.
As a patron of the Arts of the Americas Circle, you will be invited to join a selection committee responsible for selecting two to three exhibitions proposed by the Art program each year. In addition, patrons will also receive invitations for special events exclusively organized for the Circle, including an intimate party held annually, visits to art fairs, galleries and artist’s studios, special book editions and conversations with artists, curators, and collectors.
Americas Society acknowledges the generous support from the Arts of the Americas Circle members: Amalia Amoedo, Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Emily Engel, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, Elena Matsuura, Maggie Miqueo, Antonio Murzi, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Marco Pappalardo and Cintya Poletti Pappalardo, Carolina Pinciroli, Erica Roberts, Sharon Schultz, and Edward J. Sullivan.
For more information about the Arts of the Americas Circle, please contact Carla Lucini (clucini@as-coa.org).
Private tour by Inés Katzenstein and Karen Grimson of Sur Moderno: Journeys of Abstraction at the Museum of Modern Art, November 2019.