Latin American Artists

From 1785 to Now

Phaidon Editors with an introduction by Raphael Fonseca

The essential survey showcasing the work of more than 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based in Latin America

Latin American artists have gained increasing international prominence as the art world awakens to the area’s extraordinary art scenes and histories. In an accessible A-Z format, this volume introduces key artworks by 300+ artists who together demonstrate the variety and vitality of artwork being made. Focusing on those born, or who have lived, in the 20 Spanishand Portuguese-speaking regions of Latin America, this book has been created in close collaboration with an expert panel of advisors and writers.

Artists include: Allora and Calzadilla, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Francis Alÿs, Olga de Amaral, Fernando Botero, Leonora Carrington, Lygia Clark, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Leonor Fini, Gego, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Carmen

Herrera, Graciela Iturbide, Alfredo Jaar, Frida Kahlo, Guillermo Kuitca, Wifredo Lam, Teresa Margolles, Marisol, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Zilia Sánchez, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Cecilia Vicuña, Adrián Villar Rojas and Faith Wilding.

Advisory panel includes: Deri Andrade, David AyalaAlfonso, Fernanda Brenner, Estrellita B. Brodsky, Tatiana Cuevas, Anna Di Stasi, Andrés Gustavo Duprat, Raphael Fonseca, Zanna Gilbert, Laura Hakel, Yina Jiménez Suriel, Maya Juracán, Pablo Léon de la Barra, Miguel A. López, Bernardo Mosqueira, Gerardo Mosquera, Rodrigo Moura, Laura Orozco, Taisa Palhares, Maylin Pérez, Maylin Pérez, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Florencia Portocarrero, Ileana Ramírez Romero, Amy Rosenblum-Martín, Emiliano Valdés and Michael Wellen.

Raphael Fonseca is a researcher in curating, art history, art criticism, and education. He holds a PhD in Criticism and Art History from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is curator of modern and contemporary Latin American art at the Denver Art Museum. He worked as a curator at the Contemporary Art Museum of Niterói, Brazil, from 2017 to 2020.

Features historic and living artists – both those celebrated internationally, and names less-known outside of their native countries -

Part of Phaidon’s hugely successful The Art Book family and builds on the success of recent geographical survey: African Artists from 1882 to Now from top left to bottom right: Sandra Eleta, Edita (la del plumero) Panamá, (Edita (The One with the Feather Duster) Panama) from the series La servidumbre (Servitude) 1978–89; Frida Kahlo, Autorretrato en la Frontera entre Mexico y los Estados Unidos (Self Portrait on the Border between Mexico and the United States of America) 1932; Annemarie Heinrich, La manzana de Eva (Eve’s Apple) 1953; Hulda Guzmán, Delightning, 2022; Cildo Meireles, Babel 2001; Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, Swinguerra 2019; Claudia Martínez Garay, Chunka Tawayuq Pacha (PACHA #14) 2022

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