Luis
González Palma Luis González Palma was born in 1957 in Guatemala City and still lives there today. A self-taught photographer, he studied architecture and cinematography at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. He has exhibited widely throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia. González Palma's work is included in various significant collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centro de Arte Reína Sofía in Madrid, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University. His best-known work depicts the indigenous and mestizo populations of his home country, often in a staged fashion evoking mythological and cultural characters. In his most familiar images, he paints over the photographs to achieve a sepia quality but leaves the whites of the subjects' eyes unpainted, to startling effect.
María
Magdalena Campos-Pons
Born and raised in Cuba, María Magdalena Campos-Pons studied in
Havana at the National School of Art and the Superior Institute of Art
(ISA), later training at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She
has lived and worked in Boston since 1991 and has shown extensively in
the United States, Canada and abroad. Her work is in important public
and private collections, including the National Museum of Fine Arts in
Havana and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Campos-Pons was one of the
artists in the United States representation at the 1997 Johannesburg Biennale,
and showed in the 2001 Venice Biennale. Campos-Pons works in a variety
of media, including photography, painting, and performance video. Recurring
themes in her work include maintaining ties with the people and land from
which she comes, the special character and role of women's discourse in
society, and the nature of family communication.
Pablo
Soria
Pablo Soria was born in Argentina in 1964 and received his BFA from the
School of Fine Arts, National University of Tucumán, in 1989. He went
on to study in Buenos Aires from 1989 to 1991 on a fellowship from the
Fondo Nacional de las Artes for Painting. His works are represented in
major private and public collections, including the Museo de Arte Moderno,
Buenos Aires; the Philip Morris Collection, New York; and the Museum of
Fine Art, Houston. Soria has participated in solo and group exhibitions
throughout Latin America, the United States, and Europe. Of his series
of self-portraits, he writes, "I place myself as the actor of my memories
… It's an autobiographical vision of time, shaded by the obsession with
the memory of the country left behind, love, childhood, death and loss."
Soria's nostalgia is a powerful lens for his imagery. He lives and works
in Miami, Florida.
