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2025 Catalyst Carlos Barberena Install 1

Artist Carlos Barberena, whose work is currently on view in Catalyst: Immigration and Self-taught Art in Chicago discusses his practice and work featured in the exhibition.

Carlos Barberena is a Nicaraguan-born, Chicago-based contemporary printmaker known for his relief prints and the use of images from pop culture, as well as from political and cultural tragedies. In his art, Barberena has consistently reflected on the cycles of repression and resistance and their relationship to the Diaspora in which he has lived, throughout dictatorship, revolution, erasure, renewal, hope and repression.

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