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aprile 07, 2023 - New Museum
New Museum Summer 2023 Exhibitions
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New York, NY (April 6, 2023)—The #newmuseum today announced further details on four
solo exhibitions opening June 29, 2023. “Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón
latiente” spotlights the artist’s large-scale, multimedia installations and sculptures created from
the 1990s to today exploring issues of identity, race, gender, and social justice (Second Floor);
“Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrance” features new and recent work across film,
sculpture, and installation alongside archival materials questioning established historical
narratives in Vietnam and other formerly colonized countries (Third Floor); “Mire Lee: Black
Sun” comprises a site-specific installation of new animatronic sculptures fusing the
technological with the corporeal (Fourth Floor); and “Wynnie Mynerva: The Original Riot”
reimagines the biblical story of Eve and Lilith through a newly commissioned painting and a
sculpture created from the artist’s own body (Lobby Gallery). The summer 2023 exhibition
program furthers the New Museum’s commitment to advancing critical dialogue about new art
and new ideas through experimental commissions and benchmark exhibitions.
“Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente”
June 29–September 17, 2023
New Museum Second Floor
“My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente” will be the most comprehensive exhibition to date by
Pepón Osorio (b. 1955, San Juan, Puerto Rico; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA), featuring
selected works from the 1990s to today. Known for his provocative, sweeping, multimedia
installations, Osorio creates fantastical scenes inspired by everyday environments—from home
interiors to barbershops to classrooms—that advance critical discussions on topics such as
identity, race, gender, and social justice. Informed by his background in theater and
performance as well as his experiences as a child services case worker and professor, Osorio’s
richly textured sculptures and installations are deeply invested in political, social, and cultural
issues affecting Latinx and working class communities in the United States. Installed on the
New Museum’s Second Floor, the exhibition will focus on the elaborate environments that
Osorio has been creating since the early 1990s, often developed through long-term
collaborations with the individuals in the neighborhoods where they were first shown. “My
Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente” will also premiere a new work, Convalescence (2023), which
focuses on the difficulties of navigating the US healthcare system and the multiplicity of
pathways toward healing.
The exhibition will feature five of Osorio’s large-scale installations, the earliest of which, Scene
of the Crime (Whose Crime?) (1993), included in the 1993 Whitney Biennial, reflects on the
social impact of Hollywood’s violent representations of Latinx people, depicting what appears to
be the aftermath of a murder in an apartment of a Puerto Rican family in #newyork City. Other
large-scale multimedia installations from the 1990s include En la Barbería No se Llora (No
Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) (1994), originally installed in an abandoned barbershop in
New Haven, CT, which tackles gender performativity and the perpetuation of machismo; and
Badge of Honor (1995), first shown in a storefront in Newark, New Jersey, which investigates
the effects of mass incarceration through an intimate conversation between a teenager and his
imprisoned father. The exhibition will also include Osorio’s recent project reForm (2014–17),
created in collaboration with students and community members in response to a city-ordained
shuttering of a Philadelphia school, and Osorio’s new work, Convalescence. Alongside these
five installations, the exhibition will also include several sculptural works such as My Beating
Heart (2000), a six-foot-tall anatomical heart adorned with a crepe paper technique traditionally
used to make piñatas, outfitted with speakers resounding the artist’s own heartbeat.
This exhibition will provide an opportunity to experience Osorio’s new and most iconic projects
together for the first time, demonstrating the distinctive ways in which he creates encompassing
environments that illustrate personal stories and reveal crucial societal concerns. “My Beating
Heart/ Mi corazón latiente” addresses themes that resonate throughout Osorio’s practice,
including the simultaneous resilience and fragility of human life, the values and desires that
propel humanity, and the fundamental urgency to better care for one another.
“Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente” is curated by Margot Norton, Allen and
Lola Goldring Senior Curator, and Bernardo Mosqueira, ISLAA Curatorial Fellow. A fully
illustrated catalogue published by the #newmuseum accompanies the exhibition and includes an
interview with the artist by Norton and Mosqueira; a conversation between Osorio and Rita
Indiana; and texts by Robert Blackson, Ramón Rivera-Servera, and Guadalupe Rosales
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