Curator-led tour of Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures at El Museo del Barrio with Susanna V. Temkin

Apr 30, 2026

El Museo del Barrio 1230 5th Avenue, New York

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Please join us in a special curatorial tour of El Museo del Barrio's Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures, led by El Museo del Barrio's Interim Chief Curator, Susanna V. Temkin. 

Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures is the first museum survey dedicated to the groundbreaking photographer Sophie Rivera (1938–2021). Opening this spring, the exhibition offers a reevaluation of Rivera’s contributions to photography and Nuyorican visual culture, while celebrating her deep, historic connection to El Museo—where she organized exhibitions and held her first solo show in the 1980s.

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.

(Image credit: Sophie Rivera, Alternators,1975, printed in 1986 Color photograph Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York Gift of Sophie Rivera)

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