Research Fellow Isabella Marie Garcia brings together the stories of two Cuban artists, Carlos Alfonzo and Fernando Garcia, focusing on how their work reflected the experience of being Cuban immigrants and grappling with a variety of political and social forces working against them.

Research Fellow Timothy E. Bradley explores the work of Frank Green (1957–2013), a performance and installation artist who worked in New York and Ohio. Bradley focuses on The Scarlet Letters, a searing and iconoclastic performance that questioned medical knowledge about AIDS in the mid-1990s.

In 1989, Vittorio Scarpati (1953–1989) produced a suite of intricate and expressive drawings while hospitalized at Cabrini Medical Center. The drawings were exhibited the same year in exhibitions organized by his wife, Cookie Mueller, at 56 Bleecker Gallery and his friend, Nan Goldin, at Artists Space. Michele Bertolino reflects on the euphoric undercurrent that shines through Scarpati's work.

Research Fellow Jorge Bordello presents the work of Mexican artist Sergio Hernández Francés (1964-1995), who worked across multimedia theater, performance and video. Connecting his early work as an actor and his collaborations with the rock band Santa Sabina to his later experimental video work, Bordello illuminates Sergio’s wide-ranging influence on Mexican cultural history—from the ‘rock en tu idioma’ movement, Mexican video art, and literature.