Current Exhibition
"Infancia"
Through Dec. 10, 2025
Salve Regina University's Department of Art and Art History has engaged with the Newport-based nonprofit Fundación Magdalena to exhibit 42 silver gelatin prints by Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide.
"Infancia" includes previously unpublished prints that explore childhood and rural life across various regions of the world. Thanks to the relationship between Iturbide and Fundación Magdalena, this is the first exhibit ever of Iturbide's images of children.
The exhibition features a catalog by Barcelona-based publisher Editorial RM that brings together reproductions of the artworks with an essay by Colombian curator María Wills. The catalog will be available for purchase later this year directly from the Editorial RM website or from independent booksellers worldwide.
"Infancia" is part of a pilot project in which Salve and Fundación Magdalena are partnering to create art events that spark inquiry and forge stronger community ties. Throughout the exhibit, Salve is running an after-school workshop one day each week, bringing together native English-speaking students and English language learner students from public schools in Rhode Island to explore how art can change the way we see each other and the world around us.
About Graciela Iturbide
Born in Mexico City in 1942, Graciela Iturbide uses photography as a way of understanding and exploring her culture. Her work, which focuses on everyday life and is almost entirely in black and white, has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), among others. She has been recognized with the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Foundation Award, the Grand Prize Mois de la Photo, Paris, a Guggenheim fellowship, the International Grand Prize, Hokkaido, Japan, the National Prize of Sciences and Arts in Mexico City, an honorary degree from Columbia College Chicago, an honorary Doctorate of Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and other honors.
2025 Artist-in-Residence: Lía García
Lía García is the Department of Art and Art History’s 2025 artist-in-residence. The interdisciplinary artist will relocate her studio practice to the Hamilton Gallery for two weeks following the Thanksgiving holiday. During this time, she will share her creative process with the Salve community and stimulate new opportunities for dialogue, interaction and learning on campus.
As artist-in-residence, García will foster a conversation with the Graciela Iturbide exhibition and introduce a new participatory action that invites visitors to write and draw from the perspective of their childhood home. As this living tapestry of memories evolves, García will create a parallel piece inspired by her own childhood memories, where personal experiences resonate and transform one another.
García is a Colombian artist and cultural manager. She holds a master’s degree in history and theory of art, architecture and the city from the National University of Colombia. In her personal practice, she creates drawings on unconventional surfaces that explore themes of time and memory. Her work strikes a balance between chaos and order, fragmentation and debris, as metaphors for the forces that shape the intimate and urban landscape.
She has exhibited widely in both solo and group shows. Recent projects include exhibitions at Banco de la República de Colombia, the Museum of the Americas in Washington, a show of contemporary Colombian art in Finland, and galleries in Miami, Cuba, Spain, Belgium and Mexico.