Ronny Quevedo is included in the group exhibition Whose America? at the National Academy of Design, New York, on view from October 16, 2025–January 10, 2026.
National Academy of Design's press release follows:
The National Academy of Design is pleased to present Whose America?, an exhibition that examines the United States’ relationship to the history of ‘America’ in all of its pluralities. Drawing upon its varied and eclectic roster of National Academicians, those with vastly different experiences of diaspora from throughout the Americas, Whose America? deconstructs the many regional, political and social influences that have shaped the United States’ cultural landscape today. As the inaugural exhibition of the National Academy’s year-long bicentennial celebration, Whose America? draws on the Academy’s history as one of the founding arts institutions in the United States and reflects the institution's commitment to looking critically at its own past.
Organized around a series of fundamental yet seldom asked questions—who is America?, who does it belong to? and who writes its history?—the exhibition brings together a wide and multidisciplinary range of works that mount a collective challenge to the idea that ‘America’ has ever truly been synonymous with the United States. In place of such a totalizing perspective, Whose America? draws upon the pluralistic wellspring of experience by artists hailing from countries throughout North America, Central and South America and the Caribbean, all of which are underpinned by Indigenous people’s historic ties to the land that precede the founding of this country. The exhibition will feature work by dozens of artists from countries including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
Featured artists include:
Dawoud Bey, J. Yolande Daniels, Teresita Fernández, Rafael Ferrer, Charles Gaines, Carmen Herrera, Alfredo Jaar, Roberto Juarez, Joyce Kozloff, Glenn Ligon, Maya Lin, Faith Ringgold, Shahzia Sikander, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), Kay WalkingStick (Citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and Anglo) and Nari Ward. In dialogue with these Academy members will be works by Alexandra Bell, Lizania Cruz, Myriam Dion, Anna Bella Geiger, An-My Lê, Coral Saucedo Lomelí, Guadalupe Maravilla, Sandra Monterroso, Asicaz Monzón-Aguirre, Nadia Myre (Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabeg First Nation), Claudia Peña Salinas, Ronny Quevedo, Edra Soto, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Nico Williams (Anishinaabe), Martin Wong and Horacio Zabala.
Whose America? is curated by Natalia Viera Salgado, Associate Curator and Gee Wesley, Guest Curator.
