This is the first exhibition to explore the innovative contributions to contemporary art by Latin American and 
Latina artists during a period of extraordinary conceptual and aesthetic experimentation. Featuring over 120 artists from 15 countries, Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 focuses on the use of the female body for political and social critique and artistic expression.
These artists pioneered radical forms and explore a feminine sensibility with open or, more often, veiled connections to feminist activism. Many works were created under harsh political and social conditions, some due to U.S. interventions in Central and South America, which were complicated or exacerbated by the experiences of the artists as women.
The works on display range from painting and sculpture to photography, video, performance, and other new media. Included are emblematic figures such as Brazilian Lygia Pape, Cuban-American Ana Mendieta, and Argentine Marta Minujín, alongside lesser-known names like the abstract painter born in Cuba Zilia Sánchez; Colombian sculptor Feliza Bursztyn; Peruvian composer, choreographer, and activist 
Victoria Santa Cruz; and Argentine mixed-media artist Margarita Paksa. The presentation in Brooklyn also includes Nuyorican portraits by photographer Sophie Rivera, as well as works by Chicana graphic arts pioneer Ester Hernandez, Cuban filmmaker Sara Gomez, and Afro-Latina activist and artist Marta Moreno Vega.
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 is organized by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a Getty initiative with art institutions across Southern California, and with guest curators Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta, along with Marcela Guerrero, former curatorial fellow at the Hammer Museum. The presentation at the Brooklyn Museum, from April 13 to July 22, is organized by Catherine J. Morris, Senior Curator Sackler, and Carmen Hermo, Assistant Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.
For more information, visit: www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/radical_women