Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Posted on By Divya Gangwani

CELEBRATING HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH

Honoring the vision and influence of Latine artists

Join us in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. At ART FOR CHANGE, we are proud to honor this occasion with a curated collection from a multigenerational, international group of acclaimed contemporary artists.

These artists inspire us year-round, and during Hispanic Heritage Month we shine an even brighter light on their work—celebrating cultural visibility and the enduring impact of Hispanic voices in contemporary art. Jean-Pierre Villafañe’s Sombras dissolves boundaries between body and space, echoing the fluidity of Puerto Rican and Latinx identity. Kenny Rivero’s Witness Revelator layers Dominican-American memory, symbolism, and spirituality to honor cultural heritage. Lucia Hierro’s Street Memorial transforms everyday offerings into art, drawing from Dominican traditions of remembrance and collective care.

Discover more about these remarkable artists and their practices below, and explore the full collection of works by Latine artists on our website.

 

 

JEAN-PIERRE VILLAFAÑE
Sombras
24 x 18.5 inches
Archival pigment print

Edition of 25 with 5AP + 1PP
Hand-embellished, signed, and numbered by the artist
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    JEAN-PIERRE VILLAFAÑE

Through a complex, cubist sense of layering, Jean-Pierre Villafañe explores notions of intimacy, sexuality, self-concept, and performativity through a destruction of the distinctions between figure and environment. Sombras is a rich, rhythmic composition teeming with illusionistic depths of field, geometric tricks, and tangible verve expressed through satirical groupings and dramatic figures. 

 

 

Enoc Perez is a critically acclaimed artist, best known for paintings of modernist buildings which he began creating during the 1990s. Dorado Beach Pool stems from a recent body of work inspired by the paradisiacal settings of the Caribbeans—and, more specifically, the ways that they have been marketed through resort brochures and travel catalogs.

 

 

KENNY RIVERO
Witness Revelator
23.25 x 20 inches
Archival Pigment Print

Limited edition of 10
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist

Limited edition of 20
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KENNY RIVERO

KENNY RIVERO

Kenny Rivero’s paintings, collages, drawings, and sculptures explore the complexity of identity through narrative images, language, and symbolism. Witness Revelator stems from a body of work that recalls a sense of fear—first internalized by the artist as a child growing up in a neighborhood that was disproportionately affected by street violence and the crack epidemic—while also representing the resilience of his cultural community.

 

 

Danielle De Jesus explores a sense of home, local, and national history by expressing narratives of displacement and diasporic cultures. La Tiendita is from one of the artist’s longest ongoing series of compositions on U.S. currency. De Jesus integrates diasporic narratives and personal history into the most ubiquitous of American cultural signifiers,
the dollar bill.

 

 

NA’YE PEREZ
Higher, Thy Will / Peace of Mind
18 x 19.5 inches
Archival pigment print 

Limited edition of 15
Hand-embellished, signed, and numbered by the artist

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NAYE PEREZ

Na’ye Perez draws on personal memory to highlight intimacy and community in his work. Higher, Thy Will / Peace of Mind explores the intersection of identity and heritage, weaving together Pan-African and Caribbean flag colors with found cultural ephemera to reflect the artist’s layered sense of place.

 

 

Larissa De Jesús Negrón is a multidisciplinary artist, based in New York who yearns for introspection and finds self-evaluation through her intimate and often otherworldly spaces and portraits. Exploring existential themes such as women’s roles in society, vitality, fear, and the unknown, the gratitude and persistence is tangible even in contrast with the portrait’s expression. I want what I already have is a self-portrait peppered with ephemeral, delicate natural beauties like sparkling dew in the grass and white butterflies. 

 

 

LUCIA HIERRO
Street-Memorial
18 x 24 inches
Archival pigment print

Limited edition of 40 with 5 AP + 1 PP
Signed and numbered by the artist

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LUCIA HIERRO

Lucia Hierro is a Dominican-American, New York-based artist whose practice—comprising sculpture, digital media and installation—confronts twenty-first century capitalism through an intersectional lens. Street-Memorial replicates the neighborhood tributes made to commemorate those who have passed away. The work is inspired by the human toll, particularly among communities of color, caused by systemic neglect during the coronavirus pandemic.