Curandurías & Curaciones

*Arantxa Araujo, Cocoon,* 2022 / Performance at the waterfront of Inwood Hill Park / Photo: Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful

This section consists of a collection of links, reviews, online catalogues and similar publications related to my curations, which I engage as a relational practice, and from the perspective of relationship-building as it pertains to collaboration–and away from ladder climbing strategies. I focus on mature artists whose work continues to challenge the status quo and to defy expectations of what art might be. It is my intention to primarily honor legacies and elder creatives, and then to balance this out with some of the authentic younger voices that are making an inroad into all kinds of creative processes, categorized or otherwise. In addition to the list below, I have organized and curated or co-organized programs for Franklin Furnace, and Queens Museum. It just dawned on me that I have been curating for 43 years.

INDECENCIA

September 16, 2022 - January 15, 2023

Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY

Participating artists: Luis A., Arantxa Araujo, Arthur Avilés, Nao Bustamante, Susana Cook, Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Marga Gomez, Félix González Torres, Nadia Granados (La Fulminante), Noelia Quintero and Rita Indiana, Carlos Martiel, Carlos Leppe, Elizabeth “MACHA” Marrero, Iván Monforte, Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, Charles Rice-González, Jesusa Rodríguez and Liliana Felipe, Carmelita Tropicana and Uzi Parnes and Ela Troyano, and Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis

Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles

This exhibition is dedicated to the late Marcella Althaus-Reid / Exhibition’s essay dedicated to Alanna Lockward

For exhibitions page click HERE / For exhibition’s essay, click HER / New York Times / Clavo Ardiendo / The Latinx Project

2022 Shared Dialogue Shared Space Part II: THE EARTH IS NO LAND

Inwood Hill Park on Saturday, April 30, 2022, 12-4PM

Korea Art Forum (KAF), New York, NY

Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez with artists Arantxa Araujo, Rosamond S. King, LuLu LoLo, and Priscilla Marrero.

For event page click HERE / For program’s publication click HERE

We were Never Human

June 3rd, 22, 2022

BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

Participating artists: Dimple B Shah / Daniela Beltrani / José Carlos Casado / Fantasía Collage (Aurora Duque de la Torre & María Huerta Arce (Lo Súper)) / Gwen Charles / David Farrán de Mora / Félix Fernández / Aitor Flores / Heather Fries / Ivana Larrosa / Marisa Maza / Carali McCall / Ildiko Meny / Amaia Molinet / Ruth Montiel Arias / Iván Pérez / Cristián Pietrapiana / Anna Recasens / Carlos Rivero / Ruth Somalo / Tatu Vuolteenaho/ Jody Wood / Jennifer Zackin

A video art show curated by Andrés Senra and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles

THE VIDEOS SELECTED PREMIERED AT BAAD! (BRONX ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DANCE) AS PART OF THE OUT LIKE THAT 2022 FESTIVAL.

COLOMBIANIZACIÓN - Performance by NADIA GRANADOS

May 26, 2022

Grace Exhibition Space, New York, NY

Co-Presented by Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art and Grace Exhibition Space

Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles

To visit program’s page click HERE

ROCKING THE MARKET

May 06, 2022 – June 11, 2022

Bronx River Art Center (BRAC), Bronx, NY

Participating Artists: Nao Bustamante, Carmelita Tropicana, and Marga Gomez

Curated by: Bronx-based artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles

To visit program’s page click HERE / To watch interview with Mao Bustamante, Gary Axelbank, and Nicolás click HERE

Noche Ritual

February 26th, 2021

Franklin Furnace / The Loft

Participating artists: Maggie Ens, Luke Dixon, Lisette Morel, Anna Costa e Silva, Quintín Rivera Toro, LuLu LoLo, Elia Alba, Jennifer Zackin and Adolfo Ibanez Ayerve, Linda Sibio, Jean Marie Casbarian, Ikpemesi Ogundare, Ed Woodham, Frances Valesco, Linda Mary Montano, Luis Lara Malvacías, Melanie DewBerry, Erika deVries, Limber Vilorio, Charo Oquet, Ana Paula Cordeiro, Billy X. Curmano, Anna Recasens, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Dulcina Abreu, Rhina Valentin, and Francheska Alcántara

Orgined by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo

To watch video archive click HERE

Whose Language Does the Produce Speak? Conversations Between La Boqueria and Essex Street Market

Artists Alliance Inc. / Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space, New York, NY

Aug 6 - Sep 3 2018

Artists: Bernat Daviu and Joana Roda Calvet, Alicia Grullón, Enrique Figueredo, Antonia Pérez, Laia Solé and Thelma García, and Harley Spiller

Curator: Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful

To visit exhibition’s page click HERE /

As Far as the Heart Can See

September 21–November 17, 2018

Elizabeth Foundation Project Space, New York, NY

Nao Bustamante
Billy X. Curmano, Irina Danilova & Project 59
Beatrice Glow
Ivan Monforte
Linda Mary Montano
Praxis (Delia & Brainard Carey)
Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle
and Martha Wilson & Franklin Furnace Archive

Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful
Curatorial Fellow JP-Anne Giera

To visit program’s page click HERE / To read the exhibition’s click HERE

Art in Odd Places 2017: SENSE / New York, NY

October 12-15, 2017

Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful with Rocío Aranda-Alvarado (El Museo del Barrio) and Jodi Waynberg (Artists Alliance Inc)

To access a press release for the event click HERE / To visit the program’s website click HERE / Ro read an interview with Billy X Curmano and Nicolás click HERE

Recetas y Gangas: The Essex Street Market Recordings

An audio Installation by Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga

Exterior of Essex Street Market at 120 Essex Street NY, NY 10002

Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful for Artists Alliance Inc. / Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space, New York, NY

To visit the installation’s page as well as to listen to the audio piece click HERE

Enacting the Text: Performing with Words

Autumn of 2016

Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

Artists included: Maria Alós, Josefina Báez, Paco Cao, Papo Colo, Billy X. Curmano, Irina Danilova, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Lesley Dill, Coco Fusco, Beatrice Glow, Alicia Grullón, Guerilla Girls, Pablo Helguera, Nancy Hwang, Alison Knowles, LuLu LoLo, Linda Mary Montano, Pat Oleszko, Pedro Pietri, Praxis (Brainard and Delia Carey), Quintin Rivera-Toro, Jack Smith, Elizabeth M. Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Cecilia Vicuña, and Martha Wilson.

Curator: Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo

To read Hyperallergic’s review click HERE / To learn more about the exhibition’s publication click HERE

Lettuce, Artichokes, Red Beets, Mangoes, Broccoli, Honey and Nutmeg: The Essex Street Market as Collaborator / The Essex Street Market as Collaborator

February 26 - March 27, 2016

Artists Alliance Inc. / Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space, New York, NY

Artists: Laia Solé, Antonia Pérez, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, Mary Ting, Beatrice Glow, and Harley Spiller

Curator: Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful

To visit project’s page click HERE / To read exhibition’s essay click HERE

PLAYING WITH FIRE: Political Interventions, Dissident Acts, and Mischievous Actions

Summer of 2015

El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

Participating artists: ADAL, Manuel Acevedo, Maris Bustamante, Nao Bustamante, Papo Colo, Abigail DeVille, Alejandro Diaz, Adonis Flores, Ester Hernández, Javier Hinojosa (b. 1956, México, D.F.) with the collaboration of Melquiades Herrera (Mexico, D.F., 1949-2003), Jessica Kairé, Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, Carlos Ortíz, Pedro Pietri, Jesús Natalio Puras Penzo (APECO), Quintín Rivera Toro, Juan Sánchez.\

The exhibition, as part of El Museo’s Carmen Ana Unanue gallery is guest curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez

To access the exhibition’s press release click HERE / To visit the exhibition’s page Click HERE / Catlogue

LIKE BROTHERS AND SISTERS

March 13, 2011

Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

Artists: Gina Athena Ulysses, Van Jeanty, Josefina Báez, and Shaun Leorando

Curator: Nicolas Dumit Estevez

To view program’s page click HERE

Born Again: A Lebanese Dominican is Born again as a Bronxite

June 1-August 3, 2011

Longwood Art Gallery/Bronx Council on the Arts

Artists: Michael Paul Britto / Kathleena Howie-García (Lady k-Fever) / Nancy Hwang & wowe / Melissa Gira & Norene Leddy / Ivan Monforte / Linda Mary Montano

Curator: Nicolás Dumit Estévez

For New York Times review click HERE / For Hemispheric Institute essay click HERE

En Castellano and in Other Languages / Video Artists from Andalucía and the Bronx

June 1-August 3, 2011

Longwood Art Gallery/Bronx Council on the Arts

Artists: Nicky Enright / Amparo Garrido / Valeriano López / Laura Napier / Juan Carlos Robles / Christopher Smith

Curators: Juan Ramón Barbancho, and Nicolás Dumit Estévez

In-House a program part of Action Actual

Summer of 2011

El Museo del Barrio, New York , NY

Artists: Migdalia Barens Vera / Nao Bustamante / Brained Carey and Delia Bajo (Praxis) / Susana Cook, Beatrice Glow / Adonis Flores / Marianela Orozco

Curator: Nicolás Dumit Estévez

The Love a Commuter Project / A series of actions throughout New York City’s subway systems

February 2002

Curators: María Alós, and Nicolás Dumit Estévez

A full list of participating artists coming up soon

For Instagram posting on this project click HERE

The Love a Commuter Project / A series of actions throughout New York City’s subway systems

February 2003

Presented as part of El Museo del Barrio’s The S Files, New York, NY

Curators: María Alós, and Nicolás Dumit Estévez

A full list of participating artists coming up soon

For Instagram posting on this project click HERE / For link to publication click HERE

Vive tu Carnaval

Summer of 1982

Casa de Arte Santiago, Dominican Republic

Curators: Arvedit’s Polanco and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful