Starting April 23rd until September 10th, Queens Museum (QM) will host as part of its Spring 2023 exhibition, “Aliza Nisenbaum: Queens, Lindo y Querido,”
Aliza Nisenbaum: Queens, Lindo y Querido, chronicles the artist’s years-long engagement with people at the Queens Museum and its neighborhood, Corona. Adapted from the popular Vincente Fernández song “Mexico, Lindo y Querido”— translated in English to “Mexico, Beautiful and Beloved” — the exhibition title highlights Nisenbaum’s personal and artistic relationships to the sitters and their environments, with careful attention paid to expressions of what people value, as expressed through material culture.
As part of the Spring Exhibition inauguration, do not miss the opportunity of celebrating with the QM the opening celebration for Tracey Rose: Shooting Down Babylon and Aliza Nisenbaum: Queens, Lindo y Querido. The Opening Party will include art-making workshops, live music, and tours with the artists.
Aliza Nisenbaum, born in Mexico City, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New York City to work as an English and art teacher for Tania Bruguera and the Queens Museum. She has lectured at Columbia University and the School of Visual Arts, and participated in a number of residencies, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art residency in 2017 and the Art on the Underground residency in London in 2019.
She has held nine solo exhibits since 2014. Her work is included in numerous public collections, among which are the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, DC, the Whitney Museum in New York, and the Tate Museum in London.
Aliza Nisenbaum: Queens, Lindo y Querido is made possible in part by lead support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by the Ford Foundation, Anton Kern Gallery, Valeria Napoleone, the Consulate General of Mexico in New York, the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, and the Queens Museum Exhibitions Circle.
Where: Queens Museum
When: April 23rd - Sep 10, 2023