Congratulations and huge welcome to Carla Acevedo-Yates [Photo], new resident at Maison Édouard Glissant / Édouard Glissant House, from June 4th 2026.
Carla Acevedo-Yates is a curator and researcher, working with contemporary art of the Americas
from a transcultural perspective, with a particular focus on the Caribbean, Latin America, and the
United States. She is on the artistic team of Documenta16. She has held curatorial positions at the Michigan State University Broad Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,
where she curated the group exhibitions ’Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora 1990s –
Today’ and ’entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico’, among other
projects. Her recent exhibitions, publications, and lectures have focused on diaspora as a site of cultural production that reimagines social and political life.
Residency will take place at Maison Édouard Glissant / Édouard Glissant House (Le Diamant, Martinique), a location awarded by the French Culture Ministry with the ‘illustrious house / Maison des illustres’ label.
This research residency is supported by documenta16, Edouard Glissant Art Fund (EGAF) and Institut du Tout-Monde (ITM).
Thank you to documenta16, EGAF and ITM teams.
Photo copyright: CAY for MCA, documenta16 and EGAF.
