A forum to discuss topics related to Contemporary Latin American Art. Latin America here signifies regions south of the United States, including México, Central America, South America, and the Mississippi-Gulf-Caribbean. This forum can be used to talk about artists that live and work in those regions, as well as those that hail from the aformentioned regions but live elsewhere.

A common misperception about Latin American art is that it is an all-inclusive type of art--it is not. The Western art world has been slow to recognize the intense creative movements in Latin America as anything other than "Latin American", which is the only reason it has been denominated as such in art vocabulary.

There is no such thing as "Latin American" art--it is merely another geographical (and perhaps cultural) context given to art existing in places other than the United States and Europe. As artists from these regions are reaching prominence in the art world, it will become apparent what a limiting context it is.

And so, we discuss...