The Latin American Contemporary Fine Art Competition, 2019

The following are the results based on the average scores provided by the jurors of the 2019 Latin American Contemporary Fine Art Competition

Competition Jurors:

Marcela Guerrero

Assistant Curator
Whitney Museum of American Art

New York

Jaime Cerón

Curator, Researcher and Art Critic

Bogota, Colombia

Marcela Guerrero

Assistant Curator at
Whitney Museum of American Art

New York

Marcela Guerrero is an assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, where she recently curated the exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. From 2014 to 2017, she worked as curatorial fellow at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Hammer, she worked in the Latin American and Latino art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she served as research coordinator for the International Center for the Arts of the Americas. Guerrero’s writing has appeared in exhibition catalogues and in art journals such as caa.reviews, ArtNexus, Caribbean Intransit: The Arts Journal, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and Diálogo. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Guerrero holds a PhD in art history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Jaime Cerón

Curator, Researcher and Art Critic

Bogota, Colombia

Jaime Cerón’s work has been focused on five core areas: teaching, critique, curatorship, theoretic research and cultural management, which he has pursued concurrently and continuously since 1994. He taught at the art departments of the following universities: Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Los Andes, Javeriana and National, and at the Superior Academy of Arts of Bogota. In 1997, he linked up with the District Institute of Culture and Tourism where he was Manager of Visual Arts until July 2007. He worked as an art critic and independent curator until September 2010 and he has been Visual Arts Consultant for the Ministry of Culture since October of the same year. Since 2016 and until now he is the Deputy Director of the Arts, of the Arts Institute of Bogota -Idartes.

Selected to participate in the competition exhibition:

The Exhibition will be hosted by Agora Gallery at White Space Chelsea (555 West 25th Street, Street Level, New York).

Classical Exhibition Category:

Claudia Ruiz Gustafson, Framingham, MA, USA
Maria Barrientos, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Alcides Rivas, Venezuela
Sebastián Gonzalez, Peru
Claudia Rofman, Argentina
Karla Garcia, Dallas, TX, USA
Monserrat Méndez, Argentina
Amalia Galdona Broche, Lexington, KY, USA
José Martín Castillo, Spain
Fernando Ekman, Brazil
Diego Lechuga Rodriguez, Mexico
Linda Behar, Providence, RI, USA
Pedro Alberti, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Adrián Villeta, Puerto Rico
Nadia Liz Estela, Montclair, NJ, USA
César Augusto, Mexico
Manuel Antonio Vargas, Colombia
Enrique Pitarch, Spain
Patricia Delionardis, Argentina
Eduardo Cabrer, Puerto Rico
Christian Abusaid, Colombia
Marco Hernandez, Wichita, KS, USA
Vanessa Gonzalez, Memphis, TN, USA
Luis Vásquez Elorza, Colombia
Silvia Rojas, Glendale, CA, USA

Digital Display Category:

Sahiye Cruz Villegas, Mexico
Carlos Alvarez Maciel, Mexico
Marcos dos Santos, Brazil
Francisco de Paula Vieira, Brazil
Jose Fernando González, Colombia

Walter Said, Argentina
Carlos Leon, Venezuela
Iván Montaña, Spain
Virginia Robles-Villalba, Oxon Hill, MD USA
Luciana De Donato, Brazil

Selected to participate in the Art Fair:
Carlos Tamayo, New York, NY, USA

Entitled to receive cash prizes of $500 each:
Dolores Esos, Brazil
Fabian Gimenez, Argentina
Pedro Fumero, Spain
Jorge Concha, Colombia
Vannie Gama, Brazil

Entitled to one year of exposure on ART-mine.com, which includes an artist statement composed by ARTmine’s talented art writers:
Orianna Montenegro, Miami, FL, USA
Humberto Guanipa, Linden, NJ, USA
Riedstra, Netherlands/Spain
Nancy Juarez, Garland, TX, USA
Álvaro Gomez Ulloa, Costa Rica

Note: New York Art Competitions is proud to sponsor the competition, but New York Art Competitions and its employees had no input or influence in the selection process. All selection decisions were made by the competition jurors

View the 2019 Signed Minutes of Decisions

Jurors’ Pick – 2019 Selected Artists

OPENING RECEPTION: December 12, 2019

Reception Video and Photos

New York Art Competitions is glad to present a few images by the selected artists. The images shown below are representative of the selected artists artwork and do not necessarily reflect the final selection which will be presented at the Latin American Contemporary Fine Art Competition exhibition.