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Located just steps from the Washington Monument and the White House, AMA | Art Museum of the Americas of the OAS is a hub for contemporary art produced in and about the Western Hemisphere. Within and beyond our gallery walls, we enrich our local and international communities by interconnecting artists, museums, and audiences across the Americas. Twitter:
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Margot S. Neuhaus Forest, 1991Installation at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DCVarious woods, 150” x 950” x...
10/22/2026

Margot S. Neuhaus
Forest, 1991
Installation at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
Various woods, 150” x 950” x 420”

Flashback to 1991, when Margot S. Neuhaus’s “Forest” permeated the AMA sculpture garden.

The artistic trajectory of Margot Neuhaus began in Chicago, during her studies of psychiatric social work and her work as a psychotherapist. Within a few years, she was living in Washington D.C. with her husband and two children, deeply engaged in art making. Over the following decades, she created works in a variety of media and took part in exhibitions both in the US and internationally.

“As I set out to work, I often sit on the ground or the floor and surround myself with the natural materials with which I work, play. I order the materials in patterns that speak to me, I carve them in lines that go with the grain, or I draw them the length of a breath. Somehow a communication is established between the material and myself. When I am fortunate, I feel that the communication goes beyond the material, beyond me. I feel that I myself am a part of a pattern that speaks of a greater order. In turn, something in me changes, as does the work I do. The door has been opened a crack and a bit more light let in.

Making art is my way to grieve the pain, feel the rage, and celebrate the beauty of this world.”

Come inside the AMA as it looked in the late 1970s. And, starting on October 31, see many of these classics as part of W...
10/21/2026

Come inside the AMA as it looked in the late 1970s. And, starting on October 31, see many of these classics as part of Washington: A Meridian of Artistic Modernity in the Americas | Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Art Museum of the Americas.

What do you think? Should we reintroduce plants to the galleries?

Ezequiel Padilla Ayestas (Honduras, b.1944, d. 2015)La Vida (Life), 1991Acrylic on canvas, 55 x 47"OAS AMA | Art Museum ...
10/20/2026

Ezequiel Padilla Ayestas (Honduras, b.1944, d. 2015)
La Vida (Life), 1991
Acrylic on canvas, 55 x 47"
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection

Padilla graduated from the National School of Fine Arts. Recurring themes in his work included the United States military presence in his country, environmental destruction, rigged elections, and militarism in society. He is identified as a painter with a leaning toward social and political expressionism; he questions and critiques the world through his art. He uses acrylics on canvas for his technique.

Padilla se graduó en la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. Entre los temas recurrentes de su obra figuran la presencia militar estadounidense en su país, la destrucción del medio ambiente, el fraude electoral y el militarismo en la sociedad. Se le identifica como un pintor con inclinación hacia el expresionismo social y político; cuestiona y critica el mundo a través de su arte. Utiliza la técnica de acrílico sobre lienzo.

Please note that the museum is currently closed for the changing of exhibits. We will reopen for normal hours on Saturda...
10/19/2026

Please note that the museum is currently closed for the changing of exhibits. We will reopen for normal hours on Saturday, October 31. We regret any inconvenience.

Jose Maria Cruxent (Venezuela, b.1911, d. 2005)Turpitude, 1972Oil and collage, 35 1/2 x 51 1/4"OAS AMA | Art Museum of t...
10/19/2026

Jose Maria Cruxent (Venezuela, b.1911, d. 2005)
Turpitude, 1972
Oil and collage, 35 1/2 x 51 1/4"
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection

Jose Maria Cruxent had a distinguished career as both archaeologist / anthropologist and painter. As an artist he was concerned with the romantic, natural disorder or informalism as well as with the classic, more rigid forms of kinetic art. This painting is represenative of his works in the informalist trend.

Oswaldo Vigas (Venezuela, b.1926, d. 2014)Gran Signo, 1956Oil on canvas, 31 1/4 x 31 1/4"OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Ame...
10/18/2026

Oswaldo Vigas (Venezuela, b.1926, d. 2014)
Gran Signo, 1956
Oil on canvas, 31 1/4 x 31 1/4"
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection

Rimer Cardillo (Uruguay, b.1944)Barroquismos Latinos, c.1982Mezzotint, aquatint and burin on copper a/p, 17 1/2 x 23 1/2...
10/17/2026

Rimer Cardillo (Uruguay, b.1944)
Barroquismos Latinos, c.1982
Mezzotint, aquatint and burin on copper a/p, 17 1/2 x 23 1/2"
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection

Rimer Cardillo, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, is a visual artist, printmaker, and graphic designer who has resided in the United States since 1979. He graduated from Montevideo’s Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1968 and, between 1969 and 1971, continued his education in Germany at the Berlin Weibensee School of Art and the Leipzig School of Graphic Arts. Since his rise to prominence, much of Cardillo’s work has related to an overarching concern with the destruction of the environment, often taking on an ecological point of view that complements his political position, particularly during critical times such as the Uruguayan civic-military dictatorship of the early 1970s to mid-1980s. Typically, his multimedia work—which ranges from prints to large-scale installations—incorporates found objects and a variety of materials ranging from paper, to clay, to wood. And, it often encompasses genres that can include photography, printmaking, sculpture, and even film. Cardillo is a Guggenheim Fellowship award winner who represented Uruguay at the 2001 Venice Biennial and has had extensive group and individual exhibitions throughout the Americas as well as in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. As a printmaker, he has participated in print biennials all over the world, and is highly regarded for his technical innovations and polygraphic approach. His work is included in the collections of major museums in North America, South America, and Europe. Cardillo is a professor of art at SUNY New Paltz, where he lives and works.

Washington: A Meridian of Artistic Modernity in the Americas, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Art Museum of the ...
10/16/2026

Washington: A Meridian of Artistic Modernity in the Americas, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Art Museum of the Americas

Washington: un meridiano de la modernidad artística en las Américas; celebración del 50.º aniversario del Museo de Arte de las Américas.

On view October 31 / en exhibición 31 de octubre

The curatorial proposal establishes a dual narrative—convergent and intertwined—within the exhibition spaces: on one hand, it highlights various facets of Latin American art found in the collections of the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA), in celebration of its 50th anniversary; on the other, it presents a body of documentary narratives—comprising books, catalogs, magazines, letters, photographs, press clippings, and more—that focus on the presence of Latin American art in the United States and the work of José Gómez Sicre (b. 1916, d. 1991).

Curated by Monica Espinel, Rodrigo Gutierrez Viñuales, Christina Chirouze Montenegro, Valia Garzon and Adriana Ospina.

We are grateful to the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) and to the Friends of the Art Museum of the Americas (FAMA) for their generous support of this exhibition.

La propuesta curatorial establece una doble narrativa, coincidente y amalgamada en los espacios expositivos: por un lado, una serie de vertientes del Arte Latinoamericano visibles en las colecciones del Art Museum of the Americas (AMA), en celebración de su 50º aniversario; por otro, un conjunto de relatos documentales, cimentado a través de libros, catálogos, revistas, cartas, fotografías, recortes de prensa, etc., que ponen en el centro la presencia del arte latinoamericano en Estados Unidos, la labor desempeñada por José Gómez Sicre (1916-1991).

Curaduría: Mónica Espinel, Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales, Christina Chirouze Montenegro, Valia Garzó y Adriana Ospina.

Agradecemos a la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI) y a los Amigos del Museo de Arte de las Américas (FAMA) por su generoso apoyo a esta exposición.

Ramon Oviedo (Dominican Republic, b.1924, d. 2015)Mamamérica, circa 1982Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 130" OAS AMA | Art Museu...
10/16/2026

Ramon Oviedo (Dominican Republic, b.1924, d. 2015)
Mamamérica, circa 1982
Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 130"
OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection
Gift of the Dominican Republic

Ramón Oviedo was born in Barahona, Dominican Republic. At the age of 13 he apprenticed under Manuel Pelegrín, who ran a print shop. Oviedo’s only formal training in anything close to art was at an American cartography school in the Panama Canal Zone in the mid-1950s. Back home in the Dominican Republic, he worked at the Instituto Cartografíco Dominicano and by 1959 he began earning a living as an art director in some of the most prestigious ad agencies on the island such as Reprex. In 1965 he left this work and focused completely on painting. During the revolution of April 1965, Oviedo and many other Dominican artists supported the restoration of intellectual Juan Bosch to the presidency. He lent his artistic talent with the production of banners, posters, and caricatures criticizing the U.S. invasion of the island and demanding the return to power of the Partido Dominicano Revolucionario (PDR). Oviedo had his first solo exhibition in 1966 at the Galería de Arte Andrés. Through his gestural and socially charged expressionism, he began to dismantle the neo-classical influence of Jaime Colson, as well as of the populist muralism of Vela Zanetti. In 1974 Oviedo was awarded the Grand Prize at the Bienal de Arte de Santo Domingo by a jury consisting of the curator José Gómez Sicre and painter Darío Suro (1917-1997) among others. The following year Gómez Sicre invited Oviedo to exhibit at the art gallery in the OAS in Washington, D.C. In the early 1980s, while struggling with cancer, Oviedo continued to work intensely. Beyond his easel paintings, he completed murals at the OAS (1982) and the Museo de Historia Natural in Santo Domingo (1986). His last exhibition was in 2014 at the Centro Cultural Mirador in Santo Domingo. Oviedo died in 2015 at his home studio in Santo Domingo.

The Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, now known as the Art Museum of the Americas, opened its doors just over 50 ye...
10/15/2026

The Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, now known as the Art Museum of the Americas, opened its doors just over 50 years ago on October 14, 1976. We will be sharing more on this topic soon. We think you may be excited by what’s on the horizon.

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