ALAA Triennial Conference‍

The ALAA Triennial Conference is a keystone event in the field of Latin American art, engaging an international cohort of scholars working across pre-contact, colonial, modern, and contemporary Latin American and Latinx art. Each triennial centers on a broad theme devised by the host institution and is free and open to public attendees with advanced registration.

Upcoming Conference‍

Reclamations: The Afro-Asian-Native Turn in the Arts of Latin America

7th ALAA Triennial Conference, Seattle, Washington, October 8-11, 2026

Natalia Arbelaez, El Dorado, 2019, Performance © Natalia Arbelaez

Conference Programme

The ALAA Triennial is free to attend with prior registration.

Triennial Co-Sponsors: Thoma Foundation, Northwestern Block Museum of Art, The Division of Art History in the School of Art + Art History + Design, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program (LACS) in the Jackson School of International Studies at The University of Washington, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

ANNOUNCING 7th ALAA TRIENNIAL KEYNOTE LECTURES

Fabricating the Global Tropics

Joiri Minaya is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist who works in photography, digital media, film, performance, sculpture, textiles and painting. Born in New York and raised in the Dominican Republic, Minaya describes her multiculturally-informed work as “a reassertion of Self, an exercise of unlearning, decolonizing, and exorcizing imposed histories.” Minaya has recently been part of exhibitions and screenings at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as international exhibitions like the Prospect 6 New Orleans Triennial, the Cooper Hewitt Triennial and the Sharjah Biennial 15. She is a recent recipient of the Latinx Artist Fellowship, NYSCA / NYFA Artist Fellowship, Jerome Hill Fellowship, and Artadia award, and has been an artist in residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, Light Work, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She's currently one of the inaugural artists in residence at the Monti Artist Studio Program in Crown Heights.

Resisting Erasure: Toward an Interconnected Hemispheric Art History of the Colonial Américas

Ananda Cohen-Aponte is Associate Professor of History of Art who specializes in the visual culture of pre-Hispanic and colonial Latin America. Her research centers on issues of racial formation, cross-cultural exchange, historicity, and coloniality in the visual and material culture of the Andes. Her research also attends to legacies of colonialism in contemporary Latinx art. She is author of Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes (University of Texas Press, 2016), and she served as editor and primary author of the book Pintura colonial cusqueña: el esplendor del arte en los Andes/Paintings of Colonial Cusco: Artistic Splendor in the Andes, published as separate Spanish and English-language editions by Haynanka Ediciones in 2015.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION

Dining, Shopping, and Activities in Seattle

LOCATION

The conference will take place at the University of Washington, Seattle, campus from October 8-10, 2026, with an optional excursion to additional sites around the region on Sunday, October 11, 2026.

A detailed Program of Events will be available closer to the conference date. Please check back for more information!

ACCOMMODATIONS

Hotel room blocs are available for Triennial participants and attendees on first come, first serve basis at two area hotels within walking distance to the UW Seattle campus.

Room Bloc Rate (single/double occupancy): $189/night (plus taxes)

Dates: Check-in must be on or after October 8, with check-out no later than October 11.

**Hotel bloc rates are only guaranteed for bookings made before September 8, 2026.**

Graduate by Hilton Seattle

4507 Brooklyn Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98105

BOOK ONLINE:https://book.passkey.com/e/51231628

BOOK BY PHONE: Call the hotel directly at (206) 634-2000. Mention the 7th ALAA Triennial Conference to secure the room bloc rate.

Watertown Hotel – A Staypineapple Hotel

4242 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA, 98105

BOOK ONLINE: https://shorturl.at/yIAyF

BOOK BY PHONE: Call the hotel directly at (206) 826-4242. Mention Association for Latin American Art to secure the room bloc rate.

TRANSPORTATION

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) is located approximately 20 miles south of the University of Washington and 15 miles south of Downtown Seattle.

Transit from Sea-Tac Airport to Downtown Seattle:

Uber/Lyft and taxis available

Public transit (Light Rail Link)

Getting around town:

Uber/Lyft and taxis available

Sound Transit Public Rail and Bus Service

King County Bus Service