Exhibition

Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures

New York, United StatesEl Museo del Barrio23 April 2026 - 2 August 2026

Black and white photo of illuminated falling snow over a blurry dark urban scene with a bridge.

Sophie Rivera, Untitled, c.1982. Gelatin silver print. Photo: El Museo del Barrio

6 March 2026

Closes: 2 August 2026

El Museo del Barrio in New York presents Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures, an exhibition dedicated to the American photographer of Puerto Rican descent Sophie Rivera (1938 - 2021). Organized by interim chief curator Susanna V. Temkin with support from Carlos Ortiz and Serda Yalkin, the occasion celebrates the artist’s contributions to photography and Nuyorican visual culture, as well as her historic connection to El Museo, where she held her first solo show in the 1980s.

Double Exposures references both the photographic technique of layering multiple images and Rivera’s exploration of multiplicity and identity featuring portraits, documentary images, experimental self-portraits, photographs of New York’s subway, and vintage prints never seen before from the artist’s archive.

El Museo del Barrio
1230 5th Avenue at 104th Street
New York, The United States
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