Exhibition Details
El Museo del Barrio is proud to present Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures, the first museum survey dedicated to the groundbreaking photographer Sophie Rivera (1938–2021).
This exhibition offers a long-overdue reevaluation of Rivera’s contributions to photography and Nuyorican visual culture, while celebrating her deep, historic connection to El Museo Del Barrio—where she organized exhibitions and held her first solo show in the 1980s.
This exhibition offers a long-overdue reevaluation of Rivera’s contributions to photography and Nuyorican visual culture, while celebrating her deep, historic connection to El Museo Del Barrio—where she organized exhibitions and held her first solo show in the 1980s.
Additional Details
The exhibition title, Double Exposures, references both the photographic technique of layering multiple images and Rivera’s exploration of multiplicity and identity. Her work reflects the complexity of her intersectional positionality as a woman, feminist artist of Puerto Rican descent in New York during the 1970s–1990s, contesting and expanding traditional histories of portraiture and representation.
Featuring portraits, documentary images, experimental self-portraits, and photographs of New York’s subway and graffiti scenes of the late 1970s, Double Exposures brings together vintage prints and never-before-seen materials from Rivera’s archive.
Featuring portraits, documentary images, experimental self-portraits, and photographs of New York’s subway and graffiti scenes of the late 1970s, Double Exposures brings together vintage prints and never-before-seen materials from Rivera’s archive.
Location
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)
New York, NY 10029
Image: Sophie Rivera, Self-portrait, c.1970s. Gelatin silver print. / Courtesy of El Museo del Barrio, New York