1st SITElines
Unsettled Landscapes
SITE Santa Fe
July 20, 2014 – January 11, 2015
Curatorial team:
Unsettled Landscapes Curatorial Team:
- Candice Hopkins, Curator (b. Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada; lives in Albuquerque)
- Lucía Sanromán, Curator (b. Guadalajara, México; lives in Mexico City)
- Janet Dees, Curator of Special Projects (b. New York; lives in Santa Fe)
- Irene Hofmann, SITElines Director (b. New York; lives in Santa Fe)
Unsettled Landscapes Satellite Curatorial Advisors:
- Christopher Cozier (b. Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; lives in Port of Spain)
- Inti Guerrero (b. Bogota, Colombia; lives in Costa Rica and Singapore)
- Julieta Gonzalez (b. Caracas, Venezuela; lives in México City)
- Eva Grinstein (b. Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives in Buenos Aires)
- Kitty Scott (b. St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada; lives in Toronto)
Unsettled Landscapes will look at the urgencies, political conditions and historical narratives that inform the work of contemporary artists across the Americas – from Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego. Through three themes – landscape, territory, and trade – this exhibition expresses the interconnections among representations of the land, movement across the land, and economies and resources derived from the land.
“With Unsettled Landscapes, we build connections from Santa Fe to the rest of the Americas, we explore untold stories and perspectives, and we link between our past and our present,” said Irene Hofmann, Phillips Director and Chief Curator of SITE Santa Fe.
“First Native American land, then a Spanish Kingdom, a Mexican Province, and an American Territory, all before statehood, New Mexico is a rich microcosm of the Americas. We are proud of the selection of artists participating in Unsettled Landscapes. These artists represent multiple generations and regions throughout the Western Hemisphere. Our show includes important new and existing works, 13 new commissions and several off-site installations. In addition, we have also included key works of art from previous decades that further expand the ideas of the show. Our aim was to curate a dynamic exhibition that shows how themes of landscape, territory and trade weave throughout the work of artists from every corner of the Americas.”
Artists List:
- Shuvinai Ashoona | CAN
- Jamison Chas Banks | USA
- Raymond Boisjoly | CAN
- Andrea Bowers | USA
- Matthew Buckingham | USA
- Adriana Bustos | ARG
- Johanna Calle | COL
- Luis Camnitzer | URY | USA
- Liz Cohen | USA
- Minerva Cuevas | MEX
- Blue Curry | BHS | GBR
- Agnes Denes | USA
- Juan Downey | CHL
- Marcos Ramírez ERRE & David Taylor | MEX | USA
- Gianfranco Foschino | CHL
- Futurefarmers | USA
- Anna Bella Geiger | BRA
- Andrea Geyer | DEU | USA
- Frank Gohlke | USA
- Pablo Helguera | MEX | USA
- James Hyde | USA
- Deborah Jack | NLD | ANT | USA
- Yishai Jusidman | MEX | USA
- Leandro Katz | ARG
- Irene Kopelman | ARG
- Miler Lagos | COL
- Glenda León | CUB
- Ric Lum | USA
- Antonio Vega Macotela | MEX
- Iñigo ManglanoOvalle | ESP | USA
- Gilda Mantilla & Raimond Chaves | PER
- Daniel Joseph Martinez | USA
- Jason Middlebrook | USA
- Ohotaq Mikkigak | CAN
- Kent Monkman | CAN
- Patrick Nagatani | USA
- Florence Miller Pierce | USA
- Marcel Pinas | SUR
- Edward Poitras | CAN
- Fernando Palma Rodríguez | MEX
- Kevin Schmidt | CAN
- Allan Sekula | USA
- Melanie Smith | GBR | MEX
- Charles Stankievech | CAN
- Clarissa Tossin | BRA
Image Caption:
Caption, from top, details of: Shuvinai Ashoona, Untitled, 2003, black felt pin on ivory wove paper, Private Collection; Andrea Bowers, The United States vs. Tim De Christopher, 2010, single channel video, Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Gianfranco Foschino, Fluxus, video, 2010, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgartt; Agnes Denes, Wheatfield, 1982, courtesy of the artist and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York.