Exhibition Walkthrough: Lilia Carrillo: Ruptures and Premonitions

Join us on Thursday, May 14, from 6:00 to 7:00 PM for a guided walkthrough of Lilia Carrillo: Ruptures and Premonitions, led by the exhibition curator Tobias Ostrander, Estrellita B. Brodsky curator at large for Latin American art at Tate Modern. This program offers a unique opportunity to experience the exhibition through the curator’s perspective, with insights into Carrillo’s practice, artistic networks, and the conceptual framework behind the exhibition, as well as an in-depth look into Carrillo’s association within the Generación de la Ruptura and its challenge to dominant artistic traditions.

Thursday, May 14, 6:00-7:00 PM
680 Park Avenue, New York, NY 
Registration is required 
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This in-person event is free and open to the public. Please note that it is a standing program. Early arrival is recommended.

Ostrander will highlight key works and themes shaping the exhibition, examining Carrillo’s material experimentation, her engagement with abstraction, and her role within Mexico’s postwar avant-garde. As visitors move through the galleries, he will discuss her formal strategies that challenge the stability of the picture plane and emphasize the physicality of the painted surface, focusing on a selection of paintings from 1961, when her mature visual language came into focus, through 1974, the year before her premature death.

Learn more about Lilia Carrillo: Ruptures and Premonitions, on view from May 13 through August 1, 2026.

Speaker

Tobias Ostrander is a curator based in Mexico City. He is currently the Estrellita B. Brodsky curator at large, Latin American art at Tate Modern, London (since 2021). He is the curator of Gabriel de la Mora: Le Petite Mort, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2025) and previously of To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Espacio23, Miami (2023-2024). He served as the artistic director of BARCO, II Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Léon, México (2023) and a curatorial advisor for the Aichi Triennial, Japan (2019-2022). He is the former chief curator and deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2011-2019). He is a founding member of Tilting Axis, a platform for artists, curators and creatives from the greater Caribbean region (2014-2019). Ostrander was the director at the Museo Experimental El Eco (2009-2011) and chief curator at Museo Tamayo (2001-2009) both in Mexico City, and associate curator of inSITE2000 in San Diego and Tijuana (1999-2001). He was a founding member of the inter-institutional Museum of Hub initiated by the New Museum (2007-2012). He has additionally held positions at XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, El Museo del Barrio and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.