EventsThe New Social Environment#1338

Signal and Strata

Featuring Elena Damiani, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, and Josephine Halvorson

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artists Elena Damiani, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Ishmael Randall-Weeks join artist Josephine Halvorson for a conversation on Zoom.

Elena Damiani

A photo of Elena Damiani on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Elena Damiani (b. 1979, Lima, Peru) lives and works in Lima. Recent solo exhibitions include Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima (2022); and the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk (2017), Museo Amparo, Puebla (2016), and MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2015). She has participated in major international biennales including the Aichi Triennale (2025), Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2023), Cuenca Biennial (2016, 2018), Gwangju Biennale (2016), and the Venice Biennale (2015). Her work has been shown at MoMA, New York, and is held in the collections of MoMA, GNAM Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, MALI Museo de Arte de Lima, Museo Tamayo, Kadist Art Foundation, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, and Instituto Bernardo Paz, Brumadinho.

Ximena Garrido-Lecca

A photo of Ximena Garrido-Lecca on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Ximena Garrido-Lecca (b. 1980 in Lima, Peru) lives and works between Mexico City and Lima. She studied Fine Art at Universidad Católica del Perú and completed an MA at Byam Shaw School of Art in London. Her solo institutional exhibitions include: The Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel; Portikus, Frankfurt; Orange County Museum of Art OCMA, California; Proyecto AMIL, Lima; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires MALBA; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City. Her work is included in museums such as Tate Modern, London, and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Ishmael Randall-Weeks

A photo of Ishmael Randall-Weeks on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Ishmael Randall-Weeks (Cusco, Perú, 1976) lives and works between Lima and Cusco. He graduated from Bard College in 2000 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. His work has been exhibited in various galleries and museums in Peru and internationally, including Middlesbrough Institute of Modern of Art, England, United Kingdom; MoMA P.S.1, New York, USA; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima, Peru; Spanish Culture Center of Buenos Aires (CCBBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; The Drawing Center, New York, United States; Museum of Art of Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO), Rome, Italy; among others. He has garnered grants and awards from various institutions. 

Josephine Halvorson

A photo of Josephine Halvorson on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Portrait by Phong H. Bui
Artist Josephine Halvorson makes art that foregrounds firsthand experience and takes the form of painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Born in Brewster, Massachusetts, she studied at The Cooper Union (BFA 2003), Yale Norfolk (2002), and Columbia University (MFA 2007). In 2021, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Halvorson is the recipient of major international residencies and fellowships such as the Harriet Hale Woolley at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France (2007-8), and was the first American pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici (2014-15). She is a subject of Art21’s documentary series New York Close Up. She is Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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