Carla Acevedo-Yates

Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Carla Acevedo-Yates is the Marilyn and Larry Fields curator at the MCA Chicago, where she recently curated Carolina Caycedo: From the Bottom of the River, the artist’s first major museum survey. Previously, she was the associate curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University where she organized solo exhibitions of new work by Johanna Unzueta, Claudia Peña Salinas, and Duane Linklater. She also organized Fiction of a Production, a major exhibition of work by Argentinian conceptual art pioneer David Lamelas. In 2015 she was awarded a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for an article on Cuban painter Zilia Sánchez.

Participating in

Artist Talk | Music and Art with Omar Velázquez

This conversation was streamed live on Monday, April 12 at 2:30pm CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. In his first solo museum exhibition, artist and musician Omar Velázquez (Puerto Rican, b. 1984) presents recent paintings and sculptures that address the intersection of painting, music, and folklore at the Museum of Contemporary Art […] More information →

Film Screening | Carolina Caycedo—Thanks For Hosting Us, We Are Healing our Broken Bodies / Gracias por hospedarnos. Estamos sanando nuestros cuerpos rotos

Thanks For Hosting Us, We Are Healing our Broken Bodies / Gracias por hospedarnos. Estamos sanando nuestros cuerpos rotos was live on this page January 21-23, 2021. Human bodies appear incomplete, divided and fractured by water and fabrics as a way to address the cementing, impoundment, and fragmenting of local streams and rivers. The body […] More information →