For the first time in the fair’s history, The Armory Show will bring together three curators with similar fields of curatorial practice, that of Latin American and Latinx art, offering a distinct, unified vision for the fair’s initiatives. They are Carla Acevedo-Yates (Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Wortham Curator of Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), and Tate’s Tobias Ostrander (Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator, Latin American Art at Tate)

Tate will also return to the Armory Show this fall from September 8 – 11, 2022. Featured in the Not-For-Profit section at booth N7, Tate will offer limited edition artworks designed specifically for Tate by Tate collection artists. Highlighted artists will include Ajamu, Rosalind Nashashibi, Cornelia Parker, Kara Walker, Hew Locke, Veronica Ryan, Lubaina Himid, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and more.

Making its Tate debut when the galleries open in May will be Cecilia Vicuña’s Quipu Womb, recently voted to be acquired by the Tate Latin American Acquisitions Committee. Cecilia Vicuña (Santiago, Chile, 1948) is a Chilean poet and artist based in New York and Santiago, Chile. Her work is noted for themes of language, memory, dissolution, extinction and exile. Vicuña’s monumental Quipu Womb debuted at Documenta 14 and remains recognized as one of the most internationally significant art works of the last ten years. 

Tariq from Tate Collective London shares his perspective on Cildo Mereiles’s work Babel. The sculpture was purchased jointly by Tate, London (with the assistance of the Tate Americas Foundation’s Latin American Acquisitions Committee) and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, 2013, as a promised gift to Tate. You can view the video here: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/meireles-babel-t14041/tower-that-could-reach-heavens