EventsThe New Social Environment#1349
Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures
Featuring Susanna V. Temkin and Genesis Báez
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Curator Susanna V. Temkin joins artist Genesis Báez for a conversation on Zoom.
In this Talk
Susanna V. Temkin

Photo: Casey Kelbaugh
Susanna V. Temkin is Interim Chief Curator at El Museo del Barrio in New York, and holds a PhD. from the Institute of Fines Arts, New York University. At El Museo, she has curated or co-curated exhibitions including the museum's fiftieth anniversary exhibition, Culture and the People (2019); Estamos Bien - La Trienal (2020-2021); DOMESTICANX (2022); and Flow States - La Trienal 2024, among others. Prior to El Museo, she served as Assistant Curator at Americas Society in New York, as well as the research and archive specialist at the Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. She is the curator and editor of the exhibition and accompanying monograph, Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures.
Genesis Báez

Genesis Baez is an artist working with photography. In 2025 she published her first monograph Blue Sun (Capricious Publishing), weaving a decade of photographs made in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Baez has exhibited internationally including at the Whitney Museum and Kilometro in San Juan, PR. Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Detroit Institute of Art. Baez holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BFA from MassArt. She is a 2025 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Amherst College.
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 🌈✨