Summer isn’t officially summering without an MCA Denver exhibition opening party! Celebrate the opening of Critical Landscapes: Selected Works from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection on Friday, June 7 at 7:30PM. Come for the art, stay for the drinks, good company, and rooftop hangs with some of the best views in the city.
The selection of works in our summer exhibition engage with our concurrent exhibition, Gala Porras-Kim: A Hand in Nature, both directly and indirectly.
VIP ticketholders receive early access (doors open at 6PM).
General Admission doors open at 7:30PM.
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About the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 by Ella Fontanals-Cisneros and her family to foster cultural exchange and enrichment of the arts. Over the years, CIFO has earned the respect of the international art world; and is recognized for its rich history in promoting Latin American contemporary art.
The foundation’s mission is to support and advance cultural understanding and educational dialogue among Latin American artists and global audiences. CIFO is a platform for emerging, mid-career, and established Latin American artists through the Grants & Commissions Program, Traveling Exhibitions Program, The CIFO Collection, and other related art and cultural projects in the U.S. and internationally. Since 2002, CIFO has granted more than $2 Million to over 150 artists from Latin America and has exhibited their work.
CIFO is also the guardian of the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, one of the most important international collections of modern and contemporary art in the world. Many pieces of the EFC Collection have been on long-term loan to prestigious museums such as the Tate Modern in London, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
About the Curator
Nora Burnett Abrams is the Mark G. Falcone Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Her career began in New York City at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Grey Art Gallery at NYU. Since arriving in Denver in 2010, she has organized over 40 exhibitions and authored or contributed to over a dozen accompanying publications. Recent projects highlighted unusual or unknown episodes in artists’ careers such as Basquiat Before Basquiat (2017), as well as the first survey of Senga Nengudi’s R.S.V.P. sculptures (2014). Her most recent projects included a retrospective of artist Tara Donovan (2018) and a focused presentation of never-before-seen photographs and ephemera by Francesca Woodman (2019). She has taught art history at New York University and lectured throughout the country on modern and contemporary art. She holds art history degrees from Stanford University (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.), and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
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