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Starting November 23, 2025, no exhibitions will be on display in the CENTRO Gallery while construction is taking place through Spring 2027. Any exhibitions held over the next year will be on display digitally or at an alternate location. For more information on CENTRO’s renovations, please click here.

CENTRO Gallery

CENTRO Gallery is committed to investigating and disseminating Puerto Rican visual art across the diaspora and in conversation with the archipelago. The Gallery seeks to expand on the narratives encompassing the Puerto Rican diaspora experience, offering opportunities for researchers, curators, and artists through its exhibitions and programming. It employs curatorial frameworks that interweave the knowledge and content housed within the Library and Archives, contemporary research within Puerto Rican Studies, and the artistic production of Puerto Rican artists across generations and disciplines. Located at the heart of El Barrio, the gallery aims to foster dialogue between community members and artists across the various Puerto Rican Diaspora enclaves.

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Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.

Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People, installation view, 2025. CENTRO Gallery, New York NY. Photographed by Argenis Apolinario.

Diasporic Collage

On tour @ National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture

Inspired by Frank Espada’s collection of over 4,000 photos and 130 interviews resulting in the publication The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Themes in the Survival of a People, this exhibition is a collage of overlapping histories of colonialism, resistance, and survival featuring the work of 12 artists from across the diaspora. Diasporic Collage was curated by Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Directora of CENTRO and the DSL; Dr. Windy M. Cosme Rosario, instructor at the University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras; and Dalina A. Perdomo Álvarez, assistant curator at the MSU Broad Art Museum. This Exhibition was organized by Eli and Edy the Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University and Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO), Hunter College, in collaboration with the Diaspora Solidarities Lab (DSL).

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2180 3rd Ave, 1st Floor, New York, NY 10035

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The CENTRO Gallery is currently closed for renovations.

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