Untitled Art Podcast

Artists Hanna Ali, Leo Castaneda, Lee Pivnik and James Allister Sprang discuss intersections of their practices concerning technology, architecture, virtual space, archiving, Diaspora storytelling, and positioning towards speculative futurism. Moderated by Heike Dempster, Director of Engagement and Outreach at YoungArts.

Conducted in Spanish:

Siguiendo con la misión curatorial de Untitled Art de desarrollar programación que apoye la inclusividad, diversidad y accesibilidad dentro del ecosistema artístico, nos complace anunciar que este año presentaremos dos paneles que se llevarán a cabo en español.

Moderado por Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator del Whitney Museum of American Art de Nueva York y embajadora de la feria formando parte de nuestro Ambassadors Committee, esta conversación destaca a galerías de Caribe y América Latina participantes en el sector emergente de la feria “Nest”. Las galerías participantes son: Casa Quién (Santo Domingo, República Dominicana), Daniela Elbahara (Ciudad de México, México), El Kilómetro (San Juan, Puerto Rico), y VIGIL GONZALES (Buenos Aires, Argentina/Cusco, Perú y Santo Domingo, República Dominicana).

A conversation discussing artists and art workers who pursue a career in a so-called fly over state such as Oklahoma. Although many art world institutions tend to be conservative, the majority of the art world itself tends to lean liberal. How do liberal artists and art workers in a socially conservative so-called fly over state such as Oklahoma attract support, capture the attention, and thrive in their local, regional, national, and international art communities while simultaneously facing rejection and pushback?

Antonio Andrews will open with the hip-hop rap performance, "Everyday," and the panel will conclude with a spoken word performance by Kalup Linzy titled "Equality Beam," meditating on equality, assurance, and confidence in a space where the odds seem stacked against you.

Moderator: Kalup Linzy, Tulsa Artist Fellow and founder and director of Queen Rose Art House

Panelists: Carolyn Sickles, Executive Director of Tulsa Artist Fellowship; Kate Green, Ph.D., Chief Curator & Nancy E. Meinig Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Philbrook Museum of Art; Trueson Daugherty, Tulsa-based artist; Antonio Andrews, Tulsa-based artist and founder of No Parking Studios; and Ashanti Chaplin, Tulsa based cultural producer and multiform conceptual artist.

Presented as a cornerstone of the 12th edition’s curatorial focus, Gender Equality in the Arts, Untitled Art is proud to host a panel discussion with leading industry experts who are driving this conversation forward: Julia Halperin, cofounder of the Burns Halperin Report - an annual report investigating the representation of Black American artists, female-identifying artists, and Black female-identifying artists since 2018 which is now the largest database of its kind; and Casey Lesser, Director of Content at Artsy and co-author of the 2023 Women Artists Market Report – a series of three articles delving into the current state of the market for women artists via data gathered data from independent research, auction results from the Artsy auctions database, and other Artsy data. The panel is moderated by Allison Thorpe, Vice President of Sutton.

Join Curator Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas and Artistic Director Neville Wakefield in conversation with Zoe Lukov as they discuss the concepts and pressing socio-cultural concerns that frame Desert X 2025, the fifth edition of the renowned international contemporary art biennial in the Coachella Valley, California. Get to know the curators and their conceptual process as they reflect on previous projects, the current conditions of our desert environments, the state of gender equality, and the pervasive use of technology as connected to artists’ creative practices and our everyday lives.

Vortic is the 2023 Digital Partner, and Prize Partner, of Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2023. Expanding on our partnership, we are delighted to welcome the digital exhibition platform’s founder, Oliver Miro, in conversation with Untitled Art Ambassador and Dallas-based art advisor Adam Green. This discussion aims to shed light on new technologies and tools for both collecting and exhibiting art with these leading experts. Adam Green has over 15 years of experience in the art industry working with new and experienced collectors on contemporary art acquisitions and strategies. In conversation with Oliver Miro, we look forward to learning more about Vortic’s commitment to using new technologies to forge novel and accessible methods of engaging galleries and collectors alike.

The vibrant art talks series continues into its second year, as part of Untitled Art’s collaboration with Soho House Miami Beach’s Art Club. This September features a conversation revolving around one of Untitled Art’s curatorial focuses this year, “Curating in the Digital Age,” featuring a powerhouse panel of Miami-based experts welcoming: Pablo Rodríguez-Fraile, founder of the RFC Art Collection; Karen Grimson, Curator of the Craig Robins Collection in the Miami Design District; and Stephanie Seidel, Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami). The discussion is moderated by Ana Clara Silva, Soho House’s Art Club Director.

A lively panel discussion highlighting exhibiting artists at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022. Hosted and moderated by Omar López Chahoud, Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art, in conversation with Piluca Baquero representing The Estate of Val del Omar (Special Project presented by Max Estrella), and participating artist Margarita Cabrera (presented by Jane Lombard Gallery).

About Piluca Baquero

Piluca Baquero started producing films at 19. Her first feature film, Ojala Val del Omar, was presented at the Venice Film festival. Since then, she has produced more than twenty fiction films and documentaries, such as Lena by Gonzalo de Tapia, Lo que sé de Lola by Javier Rebollo or El coche de pedales, by Ramón Barea. In 2017 she made her directional debut with animation short film El silencio roto, which premiered in SEMINCI. From 1997, Piluca manages and directs Archivo Val del Omar, an archive of José Val del Omar’s work with the purpose of its promotion, conservation and recovery, hand by hand with Gonzalo Sáenz de Buruaga, president of the institution. Val del Omar’s work is kept in the Museo Nacional e Arte Reina Sofía, where it is permanently shown to the public.

About Margarita Cabrera

Margarita Cabrera received an MFA from Hunter College in New York, NY. Cabrera is an assistant professor at the Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Some of her most recent exhibitions include a solo show entitled Margarita Cabrera: What Art Can Do” at the Art League Houston, Houston, TX. Cabrera’s work was featured in the exhibit State of Mind: Art and American Democracy at the Moody Center, Rice University. Along with 80 artists in protest of Immigrant Incarceration in Nationwide skywriting campaign Cabrera participated in: In Plain Sight. At the Wellin Art Museum, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY Cabrera presented Margarita Cabrera: Space in Between; and PERILOUS BODIES, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, NY. In New Orleans Margarita Cabrera presented by the Center of Southern Craft and Design at the Ogden Art Museum, as well as “The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp” at the New Orleans “Prospect 4”. Cabrera also was featured in “The U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility” at the Craft & Folk Art Museum and SITE LINES: much wider than a line in Santa Fe, NM.

About Omar López Chahoud

Omar López-Chahoud has been the Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art since its founding in 2012. As an independent curator, López-Chahoud has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally. Most recently, he curated the Nicaraguan Biennial in March 2014. López-Chahoud has participated in curatorial panel discussions at Artists' Space, Art in General, MoMA PS1, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. López-Chahoud earned MFAs from Yale University School of Art, and the Royal Academy of Art in London.

A conversation with R.I.C.O.R.O.B.O, presented by Terremoto.

How is Latinamerican history and identity archived, stored and enunciated? Terremoto engages in conversation with R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. (The Research Institute On Cannibal Opportunism & Repository Of Obsessive Bobo-lutionary Obsolescence) to explore notions of decommodification of Latinamerican identity, the dissemination of transgressive knowledge exchange and cross-border research. This podcast is presented by Terremoto, and moderated by Terremoto’s Executive Director and curator Helena Lugo.

ABOUT R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. (RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON CANNIBAL OPPORTUNISM REPOSITORY OF OBSESSIVE BOBO-LUTIONARY OBSOLESCENCE)

R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. is a cultural production bureau¹ specialized in scratching, remixing and hacking the corporate and institutional consumption of Latin(x)(o)(a)(a)(+)² narratives in the Americas³. Roleplaying with commercial and academic business models, R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O harvest a counter-manipulation agenda through transgressive knowledge exchange⁴, site-specific interventions and cross-border research.

A commercial agency that serves as an intermediary especially for exchanging information or coordinating activities.

Latin(x)(o)(a)(a)(+): an expansive neologism to acknowledge the fragmented and diverse historical frameworks of individuals that identify within the ethnic construct of latinidad.

The countries of North and South America, considered together.

Transgressive teaching by Bell Hooks

R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O is conformed by Adrian Edgard Rivera, Daniel Arturo Almeida, Itzel Basualdo, Rodrigo Carazas Portal and Olenka Macassi.

ABOUT TERREMOTO

Based in Mexico City since 2013, Terremoto is the leading bilingual independent media for contemporary arts in the Americas. With an extensive network of collaborators and a critical focus on decolonial, queer and antipatriarchal practices, Terremoto will pause its print magazine and refocus its gaze on digital content and an upcoming program of curatorial and artistic residencies connecting the Americas.

Angela Fraleigh and Maritza Lacayo will discuss reproductive Justice, art history and witchcraft in the context of Fraleigh's monumental painting installation The Raving Ones, on view as a special project at the Untitled Art Fair. Fraleigh’s lush and layered paintings harness the magic of making the invisible, visible. Illuminating erased or forgotten female figures, her paintings unsettle familiar narratives to help shift perspectives and upend contemporary power dynamics. Traversing topics from the medieval witch-hunts and the rise of capitalism to Reagan era politics and the devastating overturning of Roe V. Wade, Lacayo and Fraleigh will locate some of the historical cultural markers that have led to the subjugation of women and the current political attack on bodily autonomy while offering practical political action and a little practical magic to boot.

Angela Fraleigh earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Selected solo exhibitions include Hirschl and Adler Modern and PPOW Gallery in New York, Inman Gallery in Houston, TX and Peters Projects in Santa Fe, NM. Her work can be found in museum collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and she has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Yale University Alice Kimball English grant, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Brooklyn, NY, The CORE program in Houston, TX and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE among others. Fraleigh has created site-specific solo projects for the Edward Hopper House Museum, the Vanderbilt Mansion Museum, the Everson Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Her work is included in “Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value & Worth” at the Weatherspoon Art museum; traveling to The Hood Art Museum and Hunter Art Museum. She currently lives and works in Allentown, PA, where she is Full Professor at Moravian University.

Maritza Lacayo is Assistant Curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). At PAMM she has curated numerous exhibition projects, including: The Artist as Poet: Selections from PAMM’s Collection, Marco Brambilla: Heaven’s Gate, George Segal: Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael, Polyphonic: Celebrating PAMM’s Fund for African American Art, Jedd Novatt: Monotypes and More, among others. Lacayo has various exhibition projects forthcoming, including Jason Seife: Coming to Fruition, and monographic exhibitions featuring Calida Garcia Rawles and José Parlá. Lacayo has organized traveling exhibitions on behalf of PAMM, including Marisol and Warhol Take New York, Leandro Erlich: Liminal, and Joan Didion: What She Means (forthcoming)—all co-organized with PAMM’s Director, Franklin Sirmans. Lacayo regularly works with the YoungArts Foundation as a Master Teacher, also curating both the Regional and National exhibitions in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Lacayo frequently contributes writing to arts platforms and exhibition catalogues including monographs for artists Tomokazu Matsuyama, Richard Dupont, Carlos Estévez, and Vaughn Spann. She has managed the production of several publications and exhibition catalogues for PAMM including Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger, On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Ebony G. Patterson…while the dew is still on the roses…, The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, and Beatriz González: A Retrospective (Named one of The New York Times’s Best Art Books of 2019). She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the American University of Paris and a Master of Letters in Modern and Contemporary Art and Art World Practice from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.