Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas | Volume XVIII | Spring 2027 Contested Exhibitions: Curating the Local and Reframing the Margins Exhibitions are the gateway to artistic visibility and are among the more typical conditions for wider public promotion and engagement. They can often mediate between institutional power and artistic authorship, as well as operate as pipelines to the national and global circuits of the art market. As public-facing structures, exhibitions have historically been regarded as representing and reinforcing institutional authority given how they underscore (or in some cases challenge) accepted categories of value and the cultural hierarchies that sustain…