education and training
- B.A., University of Puerto Rico
- M.A., Middlebury College
- Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center
Caragol, Taina
Fellowship Advisor
National Portrait Gallery staff
Latin American, Latino and Caribbean art; the history of institutional commitment to Latino and Latin American art in the U.S.; Diaspora and exile in Latino and Latin American art; Latina feminisms; Nuyorican art; art and social movements in the 20th and 21st century
Background And Education
Publications
selected publications
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article
- Lemay, Kate C. and Caragol, Taína. 2020. "Imperial Visions and Revisions." Panorama 6 (1):https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.10096 2020
- Caragol, Taína. 2017. "An Extraordinary Inventory." in Unfinished Memories: 30 Years of Exit Art, edited by White, Garrett., Steidl. 2017
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book
- Caragol-Barreto, Taína Beatriz, Moss, Dorothy, Powell, Richard J., and Sajet, Kim. 2020. The Obama Portraits. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution;Princeton University Press, Incorporated. 2020
- Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery.. Ed. Fortune, Brandon. 2019
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chapter
- Caragol, Taína. 2018. "Meaningful (Dis)placements: The Portrait of Luis Muñoz Marín by Francisco Rodón at the National Portrait Gallery." in Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture, edited by Reaves, Wendy Wick., 302-317. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. 2018
- Caragol, Taína. 2015. "Finding Oneself in the Mirror of History: Latinos at the National Portrait Gallery." in What Are We Before We're Naturalized, edited by Lasch, Pedro., 20-33. Provisions Library. 2015
- Caragol, Taína. 2015. "Nuevos Contextos Expositivos: El Retrato de Munoz Marin en la Galeria Nacional de Retratos." in El Munoz de Rodon, 33-35. Fundacion Luis Munoz Marin. 2015
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information content entity
- Moss, Dorothy and Caragol, Taina. 2022. Curatorial Conversation: The Obama Portraits with Taina Caragol, Dorothy Moss, and Michael Rooks [presentation]. February 10, 2022. Virtual: The High Museum. 2022
- Caragol, Taína, Bui, Antonius-Tín, and Cruz, David Antonio. 2021. "Antonius-Tín Bui and David Antonio Cruz in Conversation with Taína Caragol." Given at The Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia Conversation Series in LGBTQ Portraiture, January 12, 2021. https://youtu.be/qZSD9LX4ESU. 2021
- Lemay, Kate Clarke and Caragol, Taína. 2021. "Curating 1898: The American Imperium." Given at May 13, 2021. 2021
- Caragol, Taína. 2021. "Curatorial strategies in two NPG Latino exhibitions: Staging the Self and UnSeen." Given at Exhibiting Latinidad, March 3, 2021. 2021
- Caragol, Taína, Ahearn, John, and Rodríguez, Devon. 2021. "Everyday People: A Conversation between Devon Rodríguez and John Ahearn." Given at January 28, 2021. 2021
- Moss, Dorothy and Caragol, Taína. 2021. "Face to Face: Pursuing Pop with Rupert Garcia and Jane Dickson." Given at March 24, 2021. 2021
- Caragol, Taína, Moss, Dorothy, García, Rupert, and Dickson, Jane. 2021. "Face to Face: Pursuing Pop with Rupert García and Jane Dickson, moderated by Taína Caragol and Dorothy Moss." Given at March 24, 2021. 2021
- Caragol, Taína, Steinbrecher, Sandra, Alvarez, Jasmine, Benitez, Arlyn, and Jalloh, Alhaji. 2021. "Front Line: March for Our Lives, Chicago: The Story Behind the Photograph, a conversation with Sandra Steinbrecher, Jasmine Alvarez, Arlyn Benitez, and Alhaji Jalloh (AJ)." Given at February 4, 2021. 2021
- Caragol, Taína. 2021. "Interview with Dolores Huerta conducted by Taína Caragol in conjunction with the SITES exhibition Dolores Huerta: Revolution in the Fields!." Given at March 25, 2021. 2021
- Caragol, Taína. 2021. "Latinx Art at NPG and in US Museums." Given at June 16, 2021. 2021
- Caragol, Taína and Ureña, Leslie. 2021. "The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition: History and Process." Given at March 22, 2021. 2021
- Zapata, Claudia, Ramos, E. Carmen, and Caragol, Taína. 2021. ¡Printing the Revolution! In Conversation with E. Carmen Ramos and Claudia Zapata [presentation]. July 13, 2021. The Greenberg Steinhauser Forum in American Portraiture. Online: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. 2021
- Caragol, Taína, Gaignard, Genevieve, and Raimundi-Ortiz, Wanda. 2020. "Genevieve Gaignard and Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz in Conversation with Taína Caragol." Given at August 18, 2020. https://youtu.be/SXorosBsNv4. 2020
- Moss, Dorothy, Caragol-Barreto, Taína Beatriz, Powell, Richard J., Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, and Sherald, Amy. 2020. "The Making of the Obama Portraits." Given at February 13, 2020. https://rebuild-foundation.org/event/the-obama-portraits-with-kehinde-wiley-and-amy-sherald/. 2020
- Moss, Dorothy, Sajet, Kim, Caragol-Barreto, Taína Beatriz, and Powell, Richard. 2020. "The Making of the Obama Portraits." Given at February 23, 2020. https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/taina-caragol-dorothy-moss-richard-j-powell-and-kim-sajet-obama-portraits. 2020
- Lemay, Kate Clarke, Caragol, Taína, and Katzman, Laura. 2019. "Curating 1898: The American Imperium." Given at 1898: Imag(in)ing the Carribean in the Age of the Spanish-American War, June 25, 2019. https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/faculty/culture/terra/Conferences/2019-Terra-Katzman1/index.html. 2019
- Moss, Dorothy and Caragol-Barreto, Taína Beatriz (Curators). 2019. "The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today." Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, October 26, 2019 - August 30, 2020.. 2019
- Caragol, Taína. 2016. "El Muñoz de Rodón." Given at Round Table at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico organized by Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín, 2016. 2016
- Caragol, Taína. 2016. "Finding oneself in the Mirror of History: Latin@us at the National Portrait Gallery.." Given at Invented lecture, 2016. 2016
- Caragol, Taína. 2016. "Searching for Useful Frameworks: Latino Art at the National Portrait Gallery. Imagining and Intervening: U.S. Latin@ Art and History Today and Tomorrow." Given at Fifth Biennial Latino Art Now! Conference. Re-Imaging Global Intersections, April 9, 2016. 2016
- Caragol, Taína. 2015. "Commencement Speech." Given at Manhattan College, School of Liberal Arts, May 16, 2015. 2015
- Caragol, Taína. 2015. "Portraiture Now: Staging the Self." Given at The Americas Society Panel Discussion on Exhibition "Portraiture Now: Staging the Self", June 16, 2015. 2015
presentations
Other
Location
- National Portrait Gallery Department
