Marcela Gonzalez

Exhibition studying handmade Black dolls through the lens of race, gender, and identity. Black Dolls will immerse visitors in the world of dolls, doll play, and dollmaking while examining the formation of racial identity and confronting the persistence of racism in America.

2022

Catalog for the exhibition Billie Jean King: The Road to 75 at the New-York Historical Society. Both the book and the exhibition celebrated Billie Jean King’s life through a collection of photographs spanning her whole career.

photo credits: Alvaro Keding www.alvarokeding.com

Exhibition Billie Jean King: Champion, Activist, Legend at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

2019

This exhibition covered the history of the largest battle in the Revolutionary War, which took place in Brooklyn in August, 1776. This important event is little remembered as George Washington and his troops fought the powerful British Army to an inglorious defeat.

2016

Exhibition about the history tattoos in New York, from its origins in Native American body art to the use by sailors, the development of the New York style, the tattoo ban established in 1961, and the underground tattoo culture.

2016

Exhibition about the history of superheroes in New York City, since the birth of comic book in the 1930s, to their appearance in radio, television, and film.

2015

photo credits: Don Pollard

Art As Activism: Graphic Art from the Merrill C. Berman Collection showcased posters produced between the early 1930s and the 1970 in the United States. These works were used as powerful tools for political protests and calls for action, and to inform or inspire the discontent.

2015

Beer Here: Brewing New York’s History covered the history of the production and consumption of beer in the city from the seventeenth century to the present.

2012

photo credits: Alvaro Keding www.alvarokeding.com

Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America was an exhibition of portrait paintings from the Gilded Age.

2012

Feathers: Fashion and the Fight for Wild Life was an exhibition commemorating the centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, which outlawed the hunting, killing, trading, and shipping of migratory birds.

2018

John Rogers: American Stories was the first full retrospective of the work of John Rogers, prolific American sculptor of the 19th Century.

2011

Exhibition about the history of the Black Fives, the all-black basketball teams that existed in New York City and elsewhere from the early 1900s through 1950, the year the National Basketball Association became racially integrated. 

2011

Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence displayed hand-drawn and engraved maps from the 18th and early 19th centuries that reflect the changes that occurred before, during, and after the Revolutionary War.

2017

photo credits: Alvaro Keding www.alvarokeding.com

USA/COLOMBIA: Looking at the two nations side by side is a self-published booklet comparing the United States and Colombia. It was an exploration on how information design can help us understand how different life can be in two countries.

2013

photo credits: Alvaro Keding www.alvarokeding.com