This was an exhibition of Tomie Ohtake’s large-scale abstract paintings. The Japanese born artist was a leading figure in post-war Brazilian art, developing her career parallel to Abstract Expressionism in the United States and becoming a decisive figure in forging the character of Brazilian painting after the mid-century.

This exhibition featured the work of artists from various parts of the Americas, all of whom used non-traditional modes of photography in order to explore the theme of the body and interpret the human form as a site of ritual, meditation, or transcendental exploration.

Americas Society presented Life in a Boundless Land: The Gaucho Scenes of Juan Manuel Blanes, one of the most formidable talents of nineteenth century Latin American Art.

This exhibition featured some 100 black-and-white photographs by the leading practitioners of the medium working in the southern Andes in the first decades of the twentieth century. These works presented a vibrant image of a nation at the dawn of the modern era – a period in Peru of economic prosperity, social progress and general optimism.

This exhibition of over 100 objects on loan from the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino of Santiago, Chile, documented the development, arts, and culture of the Mapuche people of Chile.

The exhibition Space of Time: Contemporary Art from the Americas featured painting, sculpture, installation, and mixed media works by 17 young artists working and living in many different parts of the Americas.

This exhibition presented a selection of approximately 40 objects-- masks, costumes, and paintings-- made of bark-cloth by the Tukuna people of the Amazon, in the eastern part of Colombia near Brazil.

The approximately 100 images contained in the exhibit Witnesses of Time: Photographs by Flor Garduño conveyed a poetic and intimate vision of surviving indigenous communities in the Americas, particularly in rural areas of Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

Curated by Dr. Charles Merewther, the exhibition Wifredo Lam: A Retrospective of Works on Paper featured a selection of 76 extraordinary works on paper including drawings, prints, and books by the artist, who was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba 1902, and who died in Paris in 1982.

Barroco de la Nueva Granada: Colonial Art from Colombia and Ecuador, a didactive and visually exciting exhibition, focused on the major forms of artistic expression that flourished in colonial South America from the mid 1600s through the 1700s. Through a carefully selected group of objects, the exhibit examined the major stylistic traits, iconography and symbols of colonial Colombian and Ecuadorian painting and sculpture.