Abstract Expressionism: The Making of an American Macho Art Myth?
Natalie Edgar Pavia and Yohanna M. Roa examine women in Abstract Expressionism through the archives of the Eighth Street Artists’ Club.
the braid – la trenza: Sorrow and Joy
Sorrow and Joy brings together Susan Salinger, Mary Mattingly, Monika Weiss, Cecile Chong, Lilia Ziamou, Esperanza Cortés, Sandra Eula Lee, Tatiana Istomina, and Yohanna M. Roa in a collective curatorial project at WhiteBox Portable @ Gallery MC.
the braid – la trenza: duelo y gozo
Notas sobre la segunda iteración de un proceso curatorial colectivo, WhiteBox Portable en la Galería MC, NYC. Por Yohanna M. Roa the braid – la trenza: Duelo y gozo, vista de la exposición, WhiteBox Portable en Gallery MC, Nueva York, 2026. ¿Qué ocurre cuando la práctica curatorial se desplaza de marcos establecidos desde una autoridad […]
Textile Culture Backup: Reorganizing Art Through Porosity
A critical essay by Yohanna M. Roa on Textile Culture Backup and Textile Culture Net, examining distributed curatorship, institutional porosity, textile politics, counter-archives, and transnational cultural production through contemporary textile art.
Visual Bipolarity
Visual Bipolarity, presented at Museo del Estanquillo in Mexico City, offers a critical re-reading of over four decades of collaborative practice by Los Siamés (Marisa Lara and Arturo Guerrero). Bringing together nearly 300 works across painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, installation, photography, and performance, the exhibition examines their method of co-creation as a challenge to individual authorship and cultural hierarchies. Situated between popular culture and institutional art, their work engages urban memory, ritual, and embodied experience as forms of knowledge production. Through a sustained dialogue with the archive and legacy of Carlos Monsiváis, Visual Bipolarity positions artistic practice as a site where collective identity, cultural resistance, and aesthetic experimentation intersect.
Work planner by Ana Victoria Jiménez: Archive, Care Labor, and the Politics of Time
An in-depth review of Cuaderno de tareas / Work planner by Ana Victoria Jiménez, Yohanna M Roa exploring feminist archives, domestic labor, performative book design, and the politics of care. Published in INES Magazina.
La Rebelión Traviesa
Mia Westerlund Roosen en Nunu Fine Art, New York Por Yohanna Magdalene Roa Al entrar a la galería de Nunu Fine Art para visitar la exposición de Mia Westerlund Roosen, la experiencia fue la de atravesar un conjunto de piezas escultóricas-espaciales marcadas por una tensión monumental entre la carne y la verticalidad, entre lo humano […]
The Naughty Rebellion
A critical essay on Mia Westerlund Roosen’s exhibition at Nunu Fine Art, New York, reading sculpture through flesh, materiality, dance, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Primero sueño.
Ruin and Flight: Counterhistories and Simulation in The Wayfinders
A critical review of Peggy Ahwesh’s The Wayfinders, a feminist counterarchive blending ruin, simulation, and decolonial historiography in a major NYC video installation.
Unruly Bodies, Skin as Soil
By Luis Felipe Vélez Cultural Center and Departmental Institute of Fine Arts Curated by Yohanna Roa, September – October 2025 Instituto departamental de Bellas Artes. Exhibition view. Photo INES_Magazina Curatorially Unruly Bodies proposes a reading of what we call the body as a symbolic battlefield of multiple dimensions. Through two exhibitions, seminars, workshops, and the […]