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Hunter East Harlem Gallery’s space at Silberman is now CENTRO GALLERY. To view exhibition history prior to 2025, please click here. To learn more about our hours and location, please scroll to the bottom of this page.

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.

Hours:
Monday- Closed
Tuesday- 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday- 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday- 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Friday- Closed
Saturday- 12:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday- Closed

Ida y Vuelta installation views, 2023, photo credit: Argenis Apolinario.
On view @ CENTRO Gallery 3/13/25-9/26/25

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). Learn more
Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2024. Photo: Kyle Flubacker Photography
Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2024. Photo: Kyle Flubacker Photography

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CENTRO Gallery

2180 3rd Ave, 1st Floor, New York, NY 10035
Hours:
Monday- Closed
Tuesday- 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday- 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday- 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Friday- Closed
Saturday- 12:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday- Closed
Contact us:
centro.gallery@hunter.cuny.edu
or call us:
212-396-7874