COLLECTION REMIXED
February 3 - June 5, 2005

Taking their cue from DJs who remix classic singles from recording labels' vaults, five Museum staff members each curated an exhibition for this major collection-based project. The exhibitions combine works from the Museum’s collection—focusing on twentieth- and twenty-first-century works by artists of African, Asian, and Latin American descent, and by artists with strong ties to the Bronx—with key works on loan.

Corporeal Intelligence makes the implicit corporeality of geometric abstraction explicit and collapses mind-body and North-South hierarchies. Artists: Joseph Albers, Lygia Clark, Felix Gonzalez Torres, Hélio Oiticica, and Joaquín Torres García, among others. Curator: Amy Rosenblum Martín, Assistant Curator.

How to Read questions narrative conventions through artworks that blur the boundaries between what is real and what is fiction. Artists: Nicole Carstens, Coco Fusco, Nikki S. Lee, Kay Rosen, and Tseng Kwong Chi. Curator: Antonio Sergio Bessa, Director of Education.

Selves and Others explores a variety of approaches by contemporary artists to the tradition of portraiture. Artists: Lyle Ashton Harris, Esther Hernández, Seydou Keïta, Byron Kim, Dinh Q. Lê, Glenn Ligon, Whitfield Lovell, Ana Mendieta, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Jamel Shabazz, Lorna Simpson, Lynne Yamamoto, Nahum Zenil, and Zhang Hongtu. Curator: Lydia Yee, Senior Curator.

Threads and Vines highlights the personal style of three local residents—Vickie Fremont, Joyce Hogi, and Lucky Strike—through their selection of artworks and in their photographic portraits. Artists: Chakaia Booker, Mama Casset, Seydou Keïta, Joyce Scott, Jamel Shabazz, and Coreen Simpson. Curator: Olivia Georgia, Executive Director with the assistance of Philip Zidarov.

When Living Was Labor features historical and recent works that represent migrant laborers, raising awareness of this marginalized community and the economic and social conditions under which they toil. Artists: Raúl Anguiano, Alberto Beltrán, Fernando Castro Pacheco, Arturo García Bustos, Sharon Genasci and Dorothy Velasco, Luis Jiménez, Leopoldo Méndez, Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, Francisco Mora, Isidoro Ocampo, Pablo O'Higgins, Alex Rivera, Tony Velez, and Alfredo Zalce. Curator: Erin Salazar, Curatorial Research Assistant.

An illustrated 128-page catalogue, the first to document the Museum’s collection and innovative interpretive strategies, accompanies the exhibition.

Collection Remixed is generously supported by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., with additional support from Con Edison, corporate sponsor. Additional funding for the catalogue has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Corporeal Intelligence is made possible in part by Gonzalo Parodi and Mayer Import Co. Inc.