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Lasar Segall (b. 1891) was a Lithuanian-born artist who settled permanently in Brazil in 1923. His work fused Expressionism and Cubism to explore Jewish suffering, emigration, and the landscapes and social contrasts of his adopted country. A committed modernist, he co-organized the landmark Semana de Arte Moderna and founded the Sociedade Pro Arte Moderna, until Brazilian fascist pressure targeting foreigners — especially Jews — forced it apart.

Franz Weissmann (b. 1911) was an Austrian-born sculptor who emigrated to Brazil at age eleven. He was one of the founders of the Neo-Concrete Movement, a short-lived but influentimial Brazilian movement calling for greater sensuality and color in concrete art. He developed a constructivist style favoring geometric shapes made of iron, steel wire, and aluminum. In 1970, he was named best sculptor by the Brazilian Association of Art Critics.

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, b. 1912) was a German-born artist who fled Nazi Germany and emigrated to Venezuela, where she became a leading figure of mid-century Venezuelan abstraction. Trained in architecture and engineering, she developed a distinctive geometric approach through sculpture, drawing, and collage, working primarily in delicate steel wire to explore line and space. Her sculptures challenged the conventions of static art through parallax: though fixed, they appear to move as the viewer does. 

Mira Schendel (b. 1919) was a Swiss-born artist of Jewish heritage. She was raised Roman Catholic in Italy, but Fascist laws stripped her of her citizenship because of her Jewish heritage. She spent a decade of displacement across multiple countries before setting in Brazil in 1949. Working in rice paper, acrylic, sculpture, and text drawn from multiple languages and scripts, her art treated language as simultaneously physical, poetic, and resistant to fixed meaning, constantly dissolving the boundary between drawing and sculpture, legibility and abstraction.

Frans Krajcberg (b. 1921) was a Polish-born painter, sculptor, engraver, and photographer who lost his family to the Holocaust. After moving to São Paulo in 1948 and participating in the first São Paulo Biennial, he found solace in the natural world, mixed-medium art, and environmental advocacy. He denounced the destruction of Brazil's forests, making repeated trips to the Amazon and Pantanal to photograph deforestation and gather materials — burnt wood, roots, charred tree trunks — for his sculptures. 

José Gurvich (b. 1927) was a Lithuanian-born artist whose family fled religious persecution for Montevideo in 1932. His early style was flat planes of primary color or black and white. His work grew increasingly dynamic, favoring spiral compositions filled with fantastical imagery, symbols, and text, and has been compared to Marc Chagall. A lifelong preoccupation with Jewish identity runs through his work. He traveled through Europe and Israel, painting murals on a kibbutz and documenting Israeli pastoral life and Yiddish culture.

Arnold Belkin (b. 1930) was born in Canada to European Jewish immigrants. Trained as an artist in western Canada but unmoved by its landscape-focused tradition, he was inspired by images of Diego Rivera's work in a magazine to move to Mexico at eighteen. He focused his career on murals, pioneering a format he called the "portable mural" to adapt the form to modern architecture. Most of his work lives in public and educational spaces, keeping muralism's tradition of communicating with the masses.

Baruj Salinas (b. 1935) was a Cuban-born artist of Sephardic Jewish heritage who settled permanently in Miami after leaving Cuba following the 1959 revolution. Trained as an architect at Kent State University, his art incorporated Abstract Expressionism, with an ethereal, lustrous, almost mystical visual language. A co-founder of Grupo GALA — the first Latin American artist association in Florida — he was also a foundational figure in establishing Miami as a center for Latin American art.

Marta Minujín (b. 1943) is a Buenos Aires-born artist who became a leading figure in performance and participatory art across the world. Radicalized by the New Realism movement in France, she staged provocative works across Buenos Aires in the mid-1960s. Her most enduring works operate at the intersection of art and political life: the 1983 Parthenon of Books, assembled from 30,000 titles banned by Argentina's military dictatorship and dismantled so the books could be returned to the public, remains her defining monument.

Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954) is a Puerto Rican–Ashkenazi writer, visual artist, poet, and historian. Drawing on the Latin American tradition of testimonio, her work moves across poetry, essay, and visual art to excavate suppressed histories and reframe them as tools for political and collective imagination. A major voice in Women of Color feminism, diasporic Jewish culture, and disability justice, she treats history as raw material to be transformed until it shifts how people understand the world they live in.

Mirta Kupferminc (b. 1955) is an Argentine Jewish printmaker and visual artist born in Buenos Aires to two survivors of Auschwitz. For four decades she has worked across etching, mezzotint, sculpture, and painting to interrogate memory, identity, history, and language — weaving together Holocaust inheritance, Argentine history, and Kabbalistic symbolism into a singular iconographic language. Her work holds the highest artistic distinction in Argentina and is exhibited internationally.

Felipe Goifman (b. 1966) is a Belo Horizonte–born photographer, writer, and documentarian whose work chronicles Jewish life and migration across Brazil and South America. The grandson of immigrants from Czernowitz, Ukraine, his books and films trace Jewish settlement region by region — Rio de Janeiro's synagogues, the bnei anussim of Pernambuco, Moroccan Jewish families who followed the rubber trade deep into the Amazon. Goifman approaches each community as a distinct chapter in a larger account of how Jewish life shaped, and was shaped by, the country it entered.

Aliza Nisenbaum (b. 1977) is a Mexico City–born painter of Russian Jewish descent whose career in portraiture began in 2012 when Tania Bruguera invited her to teach English to undocumented migrants in Queens. The relationships she built there led to portraits of her students and their families, and established the method she has worked in since — forming intimate, extended relationships with her "sitters." Her large-scale, saturated canvases depict workers, immigrants, and others who are rarely the subject of portraiture.

Yaron Michael Hakim (b. 1980) is a Bogotá-born, Los Angeles–based artist whose work addresses assimilation, cultural hybridity, and the experience of living between worlds. Working on recycled sailcloth, he produces dense, surrealistic depictions of flora and fauna that use the language of natural history as a framework for examining identity, exoticization, and belonging. The boundary between self and other, human and animal, becomes the primary site of inquiry. 

Karen Dana Cohen (b. 1982) is a Mexico City–born, Chicago-based artist working in drawing, painting, and sculpture. Her practice centers on the experience of inhabiting a body in contexts where it is marked as foreign — examining the structures of belonging and exclusion, the friction of translation, and the negotiation of home and place. She holds an MFA from Hunter College and has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Alex Woz is an Argentine Jewish artist. Raised around persistent antisemitic harassment, he spent years absorbing hostility toward an aspect of his identity he hadn't yet claimed for himself — a dynamic he later recognized as internalized antisemitism. After reconnecting with Jewish practice and community in his early twenties, he began making work in 2021 that uses photo collage — assembled from archival and antiquated photographs of Jewish people — to counter the stereotypes and propaganda that have shaped how Jews are seen, and how they see themselves. 

Margo Rivera-Weiss (b. 1960) was a Peruvian-Jewish American painter born to a Peruvian father and a Jewish American mother. Based in Oakland, they spent nearly two decades at the Women's Cancer Resource Center — first as librarian, then as Community Engagement Manager — using art as a tool for inclusion and programming for women of color, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and trans people. They also founded the JanRae Community Art Center and taught a monthly sketchbook class. They called their art style Tropical Expressionism. 

Veronica Mijelshon is a Buenos Aires–born architect and glass jewelry designer. She brings structural thinking to wearable objects — combining glass with rubber, metal, and textiles through flameworking, glassblowing, casting, and fusing. Her designs are shaped by an architectural training that instilled a rigorous attention to geometry and balance, and a childhood spent in her father's workshop handling industrial materials. The result is work that holds contrasts in tension — strength against fragility, transparency against reflection, organic form against geometric precision.

Alejandro Glatt is a third-generation Ashkenazi Jewish Mexican artist and the creator of GLATT KOSHER POP ART, a practice that merges Jewish identity, pop culture, and spiritual storytelling. His work spans paintings, mezuzahs, and installations, and has been exhibited internationally including at Miami Art Basel Week and the Jerusalem Biennale. In 2024 he became the first Mexican Jewish artist to send work to the Moon through the Artemis/Lunaprise mission.

Mónica Czukerberg is a painter and sculptor who trained as an architect before expanding her practice through drawing and fashion. Working in what she calls "abstract realism," she draws on Mexican landscapes, light, and organic forms, situating them in invented, undefined settings that emerge from her creative process rather than direct observation. Her architectural training shapes an underlying attention to geometric structure, held in tension with the fluid, organic elements that characterize her canvases. 

Lucila Lagrú is an Argentinian Jewish artist working with ink, printmaking, and embroidery. Her work combines Yiddish and Hebrew text, self-portraiture, and symbolic imagery to explore grief, connection, memory, and repair. She studied visual arts at the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte (IUNA) and UMSA in Buenos Aires.

Ronit Levin Delgado is a multidisciplinary artist and curator, and a Fulbright Scholar. Her mother fled antisemitism in Soviet Moldova for Israel and met her father, a Paraguayan musician of mixed Jewish and Guaraní Native American heritage. Working across site-specific installation, interactive performance, video, painting, and sculptural objects, her practice centers on the body as a site of ritual — exploring vulnerability, desire, and intimacy as entry points into collective experience. 

Gerardo Blumenkrantz is a Brooklyn-based illustrator and visual artist born in Argentina, who came to the US right after high school. He works at the intersection of storytelling, humor, and image-making — using what he describes as a deceptively light-handed comic sensibility to reach deeper emotional territory. In 2012 he was awarded a Sendak Fellowship by Maurice Sendak himself, given to outstanding visual storytellers.

Tali Levine is a Mexico City–born, Miami-based painter and mixed media artist. She works primarily in acrylic, oil, and embroidery — often interweaving the three — to produce hyperrealistic depictions of the natural world. Her work operates at the edge of legibility, using technical precision to generate wonder rather than mere accuracy: the question of how something was made becomes part of the experience of looking at it. You can shop her art on Etsy!

Rosemarie Gleiser (b. 1969) is a Peruvian-Jewish interdisciplinary artist, writer, researcher, and Fulbright recipient. Working across drawing, printmaking, photography, textile, and storytelling, her practice moves along two axes: an ecological one, in which she sutures photographic images of glaciers and bodies of water with dental floss, silicone, and Morse code to mark environmental damage; and a cultural one, focused on diasporic memory and family migration. Her current project, Let Me Tell You Something, is a bilingual illustrated memoir tracing her family's journey from pre-WWII Romania to Peru, interweaving recipes, WhatsApp messages, and Yiddish phrases translated through Quechua.

Marcela Roitman is a Buenos Aires–based architect and the founder of Orpnimi, a contemporary Judaica practice. Working with local artisans and women's cooperatives, she produces Kiddush cups, challah covers, silver candelabra, and ceremonial objects — made from linen, alpaca, and silver — that bring Argentine craft traditions into dialogue with Jewish ritual life. She has a graduate degree in architecture, contributing to major international projects including the European Central Bank, the Beijing National Swimming Pool Center, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Columbia Medical Center. She founded Marcela Roitman Studio in Buenos Aires in 2004.

Ariela Rothstein (she/they) is a queer artist, librarian, mother and spouse living in Jackson Heights, NY. Granddaughter of Mexican sculpture artist Susika Karchmer, Rothstein was born in Massachusetts to a Jewish Mexican and American family. They moved to NYC after graduating from Yale College in 2010 to begin their first career as a NYC public school history teacher. Their first solo show of oil paintings, I See My World, features pictures of Rothstein’s family and community, set in Jackson Heights, Cabo Verde (their partner Lauraberth Lima’s birthplace) and St. Louis. It is currently on view at Espresso 77 Gallery in Jackson Heights.

Ana Gueller is a Buenos Aires–based editorial designer and Hebrew ritual calligrapher. She served as Art Director at La Nación — one of Argentina's most prominent newspapers, during which her work earned recognition as World Best Design (2019) and Best Design in the Spanish-speaking world (2017 and 2018). Alongside her editorial career she practices STaM calligraphy, the specialized Jewish scribal tradition governing the writing of Torah scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzot, producing commissioned ritual pieces and handwritten gifts for Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, Chuppot, and other celebrations.

José Lévy (b. 1978) is a self-taught Dominican artist of Jewish Sephardic descent. His art explores the social, political, cultural, and economic complexities of Dominican society, sharing the stories of the Caribbean and its people, who are often overlooked. He also weaves in his Sephardi Jewish history: "[M]y experience as a Dominican Sephardic Jew and the sense of cultural loss due to the erasure of the Sephardi history reminds us that we need to create arts that reflect our culture for the future generation." 

Fercho Marquéz-Elul (b. 1992) is a visual artist, researcher, writer, translator, and publisher who has been exhibiting three-dimensional work for over a decade. His sculptures and objects investigate displacement, transience, and the impermanence of things in space — concerns that run in parallel with a writing practice focused on the textual fragment and the materiality of the word on the page. He approaches translation as an artistic practice in its own right, working from French, English, Spanish, and Hebrew — his translations of Etgar Keret among them. 

Fernando M. Díaz is a Mexican multidisciplinary painter and sculptor of Sephardic heritage who works between Mexico and Italy. His art weaves Hebrew, Ladino, and pre-Columbian visual references into paintings and sculptures that transform cultural memory into something simultaneously ancient and contemporary. His latest work Yam Suf (Red Sea) draws on the biblical Exodus as a meditation on migration, passage, and human resilience.

Jacqueline Haberer is a Brazilian-born, London-based, self taught artist of German Jewish and Mexican descent. Her paternal grandparents fled Germany shortly after Kristallnacht and settled in Montevideo, Uruguay. Jacqueline has an architectural background, and her artwork, articulated in charcoal and pastel narrative-driven portraits, focuses on human connection, nature, and self. Art has been a constant source of healing, comfort and refuge throughout her life. 

Jessica Trosman is an Argentinian textile sculpture artist and designer. She founded TrosmanChurba, Trosman, and JT, all fashion and textile design labels: "Twenty years, or many more, speaking textile y language. The words “textile” and “textual” are etymologically in love as they both imply intertwining: they knit, they build, they braid, they weave." At the end of 2018, she got into sculpture, making vibrant, daring, and endlessly creative pieces. 

Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca explores memory, history, and migration, rooted in his family history fleeing early twentieth-century pogroms in Russia. Initially working with theater imagery, he shifted toward architecture and topography, investigating how communal and private spaces intersect and overlap.

Kuitca is best known for transcribing maps onto mattresses and other surfaces. Maps, he notes, occupy the space between the abstract and the representational, allowing him to dissolve the boundary between image and surface, navigation and reverie.

Rio-based visual artist Esther Bonder creates poetic paintings infused with idyllic landscapes, light, and botanical forms that invite introspection. Through a transcendent visual vocabulary—vibrant fantastical forms and luminous spaces—she constructs a world where all matter interconnects, functioning as a portal that collapses the boundary between imagination and canvas. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, her work resists the rapid consumption of image-based information, insisting instead on sustained contemplation.

Hungarian-born sculptor Gyula Kosice was a pioneering figure in kinetic and non-figurative art who arrived in Argentina in 1928 and remained there throughout his life. Co-founder of Grupo Madí and the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención, he revolutionized the international art scene by introducing water and neon gas as primary artistic materials, creating luminescent and hydrokinetic sculptures that explored perception, motion, and visual instability. Beyond sculpture, Kosice was a theorist and poet who championed art's capacity to catalyze social change. 

Karla Kantorovich is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist based in Miami, whose practice explores transformation, memory, and the profound connection between humanity and nature. Working with handmade paper, textiles, ceramics, fibers, and found organic materials, she transforms processes of erosion and reconstruction into acts of renewal. Deeply rooted in her Mexican heritage, Kantorovich’s work embodies a continuous dialogue between material, spirit, and the natural world.

Luli Sulichin (b. 1984) is an Argentine-American visual artist based in Miami. Recognized as the first Argentine-American artist on the Moon, her artwork is part of The Lunaprise Mission Museum’s lunar collection. As a conceptual impact artist, she explores controversial themes through diverse artistic mediums and uses her art to pose transversal interrogations and moral questions.

Dahlia Dreszer is a photo-based artist living and working in Miami, Florida. Her work explores identity, memory, and cultural heritage through large-format photography and immersive installations that blur the line between reality and artifice. Using carefully constructed still-life arrangements, Dahlia weaves together personal narratives with broader cultural histories. Rooted in her Latin American and Jewish heritage, her practice reflects the complexity of creating a sense of home across diasporas. 

Denise Treizman is a Chilean-Israeli artist based in Miami who makes immersive installations and sculptural works from repurposed objects and remnants of mass consumption. Yoga balls, pool noodles, hula hoops, light tubes, and rope recur throughout her practice alongside handcrafted textiles and ceramics — a signature vocabulary of objects she accumulates and recombines without fixed intention. Her work holds two impulses in tension: a genuine attraction to the visual energy of disposable consumer culture and a critical inquiry into its excess and transience. Color is central to the work's effect, amplifying what is playful while the underlying inquiry remains pointed.

Orly Anan (b. 1987) Orly Anan (b. 1987) is a performance-maker and theater director based in Mexico City, raised within the carnival traditions of Barranquilla, Colombia. She writes, directs, and constructs immersive works across performance, sound, costume, video, and installation — drawing on Kabbalistic mysticism, ritual, and ancestral cosmologies to create what she calls "landscape performances": site-responsive works that activate architecture and land through movement, visual language, and ceremony. Costume functions in her practice as embodied dramaturgy; the body itself as a living map of collective memory. Her work holds feminine power and the search for faith.

Becky Guttin is a Mexico City–born sculptor, photographer, and installation artist whose art education began informally through her parents — museum visits, studio encounters, and conversations about art that shaped her long before she began practicing formally. She trained as a Hebrew and Yiddish teacher in Mexico City and taught for several years before taking a sabbatical that became a permanent pivot toward her studio practice. Since then she has built an international exhibition record across seventeen art symposia and fifteen biennials, working across sculpture, drawing, photography, installation, and video.

Melissa Noris (Queens.Hela) is a millennial mixed Latina Jew living in a disabled blended chosen Jewish-Palestinian family. As a child, her Ashkenazi grandmother — who was a professional illustrator — taught her to draw. She focuses on using ink, graphite and pops of color to draw attention to emotion. The driving thesis of her work is how disabled and severely mentally ill women exist in a society that rejects, surveils and restrains them through various means. She draws the morals taught to her in childhood, using visual language to empower her subjects and to show what love can build.