Presented in partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), /Dialogues brings together leading curators, artists, designers, and arts professionals for a series of panel discussions, forums, and artistic discourse on topics of the moment, including institution building and public art.

Join Carla Acevedo-Yates, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for a conversation on her exhibition Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today–which features artworks whose formal approaches reconfigure the relationship between identity and place through the lens of diaspora, displacement, and dispersal. Acevedo-Yates is joined in conversation by contributing artists Suchitra Mattai and Cosmo Whyte.

This panel is presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and ARTNews.

About the Speakers

Carla Acevedo-Yates was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and has worked as a curator, researcher and art critic across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Suchitra Mattai is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses craft-based processes to address topics such as legacies of colonialism and relationships between culture and gender.

Cosmo Whyte creates conceptual work through drawing, performance, and sculpture that explores how notions of identity are disrupted by migration.