The Clemente Center Announces Artists for Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight

Visual Arts

THE CLEMENTE SOTO VÉLEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER ANNOUNCES PARTICIPATING ARTISTS FOR

REVELADAS: NUEVA YORK IN PLAIN SIGHT

FEATURING NEARLY 50 ARTISTS AND 15 NEW COMMISSIONS REVEALING HOW LATINX NEW YORKERS HAVE MADE AND SHAPED THE CITY 

Inaugurating all five floors of the newly renovated Clemente Center
October 29, 2026 – June 12, 2027
107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY

Alva Mooses & Mauricio Cortes Ortega, Hands of Time / Manos del Tiempo, 2026

NEW YORK, NY — August 27, 2026 — The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center is pleased to announce the full participant list for Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight, a group exhibition and public programming series on-view from October 29, 2026 until June 12, 2027. Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight will culminate the multi-year HISTORIAS initiative and mark the reopening of The Clemente following a major capital project. The renovation adds an expanded street-level gallery and more than 3,000 square feet of programmable space, and will bring the historic 100,000-square-foot cultural center into ADA compliance.

Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight brings together nearly fifty artists and fifteen new commissions across five floors of The Clemente and into the street to explore the central question: “How is a city made?” Through artworks, archives, performance, sound, and participatory projects, the exhibition reveals how Latinx New Yorkers have made and remade the city through its neighborhoods, cultural practices, gathering places, and ways of living together. The building is part of the story: a former public school sustained and remade through decades of artistic and collective use. At a moment when belonging and history are fiercely contested, Reveladas asks who gets recognized as a maker of the city, and what allows communities to remain and shape its future.

“HISTORIAS began with a simple question: what changes when we understand Latinx New Yorkers not as contributors to a city that already existed, but as people who have helped make it? Reveladas brings that inquiry into The Clemente itself, a building shaped by decades of artists and communities gathering, making work, and sustaining a place for cultural life in New York.” said Libertad Guerra, Executive Director of The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center.

Ricky Flores, Tanco on the floor, 1982

Reveladas is structured as a series of thematic chapters across the new renovation that trace themes of labor, migration, spiritual practice, embodied knowledge, everyday life, cultural memory, and urban transformation. From neighborhood dance floors and trade routes to migration patterns and grassroots organizing, the chapters examine how cultural knowledge is preserved through bodies, objects, workplaces, gatherings, neighborhoods, and generations. Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight is the culminating exhibition of HISTORIAS, a multi-year citywide initiative conceived and led by The Clemente and presented in partnership with the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York (LxNY), bringing together the initiative’s research, commissions, collaborations, and public programs while extending its inquiry into how Latinx New Yorkers have made and shaped the city.

The exhibition is anchored by newly commissioned works by artists Máximo Rafael Colón, Lucia della Paolera and Seth Tillett, Zacarías González & Chong Gu, Pablo Helguera, Berta Jottar, Natalia Lasalle-Morillo & Xenia Rubinos, Christian Mártir, Alva Mooses & Mauricio Cortes Ortega, Samantha Sacks (with collaborators Jonathan González, Claudia Hilda, and Hilary Seeley), Cinthya Santos Briones, Sokio/New Latin Wave, Edwin Torres, Elizabeth Velazquez, and Manny Vega, as well as a new commissions by the media collective BLOQUE and downtown radio broadcaster Montez Press Radio.

Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight will also present works by John Ahearn, Aria Almanzar, Andrés Altamirano, Verónica Bello, Francisca Benítez, Molly Crabapple, Lucia Cuba, Noah Fischer, Ricky Flores, David González, Jonathan González & Rudy Gerson, Christopher Gregory-Rivera, Josué Guarionex, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Danielle de Jesus, Adál Maldonado, Guadalupe Maravilla, Gordon Matta-Clark, Sabrina Merayo Nuñez, Marlis Momber, Natalia Nakazawa, Noelia Quintero, Tichacoco, Miguel Trellis, Rigoberto Torres, Amalia Uribe, and John Vasquez Mejias; alongside contributions from partner organizations Borimix/Teatro LATEA, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Department of Transformation, Kinfolk Tech, La Sala de Pepe, New York Sign Museum, and Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Manny Vega, Dance: From Bomba to Breaking, 2026

HISTORIAS programming extends Reveladas from the galleries into The Clemente’s theaters and gathering spaces, and outward across the city. Over the coming months, The Clemente will partner with LxNY and other institutions across four boroughs to present public artworks and symposia, historical walking tours, and further satellite exhibitions.

Leading up to the exhibition, The Clemente and Montez Press Radio will present Dance, Memory, and the Sonic Commons, a three-part radio series that explores the history and ongoing evolution of Latinx nightlife, dance culture, and collective memory. Beginning on September 9 and continuing until the exhibition opening, guest hosts Ed Morales, Carlos Viesca, Jesús Hilario Reyes, and Carina del Valle Schorske will guide listeners through the musical histories of salsa, cumbia and club music in NYC.

Additional programming details will be announced in September.

Please save the date for the opening celebration of Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight on Thursday, October 29, 2026, from 7pm-10pm. A ribbon cutting will be held on Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 10am, followed by a private media preview from 10:30am – 12pm. For more information, please contact katrina@bluemedium.com. To learn more, visit historias.nyc/reveladas.

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About The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
Founded in 1993, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center is a Puerto Rican/Latinx multi-arts institution rooted in New York City’s Lower East Side/Loisaida. Housed in a former public school building at 107 Suffolk Street,The Clemente provides cultural infrastructure for artists, arts organizations, and community producers through affordable studios and spaces, exhibitions, performances, public humanities programs, and opportunities for gathering and exchange.

For more than three decades, artists and cultural organizations have made, rehearsed, performed, exhibited, organized, and gathered within its walls. The Clemente works to keep cultural space accessible and in community use, connecting neighborhood history and cultural memory with contemporary art, performance, and civic life while sustaining cultural production as a shared public resource. The Clemente is a co-founder/partner of LxNY Consortium and the Coalition of Small Arts NYC (CoSA NYC).

About LxNY
LxNY | Latinx Arts Consortium of New York is a peer network of 50 + Latinx-serving arts organizations working across New York City. Formed in 2020, LxNY advances knowledge exchange, resource-sharing, advocacy, and collective action to address the historic underfunding of Latinx arts and cultural institutions.

Through its member organizations, LxNY supports artists, culture bearers, community-based institutions, and public programs that reflect the breadth of Latinx cultural life in New York City.

About Historias
HISTORIAS is a multi-year, citywide art and public humanities initiative led by The Clemente that examines how Latinx communities have made and shaped New York City through cultural practice, labor, migration, gathering, memory, and struggles over place. Through exhibitions, commissions, performances, oral histories, archival research, digital storytelling, and public programs, it brings artists, scholars, researchers, cultural organizations, and community partners into a shared process of inquiry.

At its core, HISTORIAS asks what becomes visible when Latinx histories are understood as constitutive of New York’s history rather than peripheral to it. The initiative has unfolded through three phases: Sembradas, Entrecruzadas, and Reveladas. Following its culminating exhibition, Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight, signature programs will continue alongside Nueva York Chronicles (NY.C.), a growing digital repository, map, and timeline that recovers dispersed histories and brings organizations, movements, businesses, events, and cultural practices into relation, creating multiple paths through the histories of Latinx New York.

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For images, further background, or interviews, please contact:

Katrina Stewart
Account Manager, Visual Arts
Blue Medium
T: +1-212-675-1800
katrina@bluemedium.com