The Mistake Room

Since 2014, the Mistake Room has been pioneering the alternative model for how to show the work of Latinx artists beyond displaying for the sake of representation. Director César García-Alvarez (and cocreators Derek DelGaudio and Glenn Kaino) want to build context around Latinx art and help visitors to grasp the richness of art practice that has Latin American roots. That isn’t to say the Mistake Room hasn’t dipped into other breathtaking exhibitions; in its founding years, the independent space organized retrospectives of pivotal institutional figures like Vivian Suter and Ed Clark by showing their earliest forms, which generated conversations about such artists’ impacts and their ties to mid-tier or smaller gallery spaces.