Wifredo Lam: Performing Artist in New York

About Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam was a Cuban artist whose work draws on Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions while engaging the modernist circles he moved through in Europe and the Americas. In conversation with figures such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, he developed a vocabulary of hybrid bodies and mask-like faces that resists easy categorization. Though best known for painting, he also worked in printmaking, ceramics, and sculpture. In New York City, his legacy is revisited at MoMA exhibitions, including *Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream*.