Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: A Want for Nothing and Tengo Lincoln Park en mi Corazón: Young Lords in Chicago - Opening Reception

Please join us for an in-person reception celebrating the opening of DPAM’s Fall/Winter 2025-26 exhibitions. Light refreshments will be served. 

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: A Want for Nothing presents site-specific works that blur the line between art and utility, inviting viewers to meditate on the role and “usefulness” of art in society. Manglano-Ovalle’s challenges notions of function, beauty, and purpose in art, calls us to inhabit the present moment fully, and urges us to consider: How does the work draw us in, and how do we, in turn, respond to it—right here, right now?

Tengo Lincoln Park en mi Corazón: Young Lords in Chicago explores the Young Lords Organization's trajectory in the Lincoln Park neighborhood amidst gentrification and urban renewal. This exhibition highlights the displacement of a vibrant Puerto Rican community in the 1950s and 1960s, and the intersections of history, activism, and the geography of memory within one of the most influential movements in Latinx civil rights history.

Image credit: Young Lords members protesting the Vietnam War in a march from Lincoln Park to Humboldt Park, 1969. ST-70004742-0005, Chicago Sun-Times collection, Chicago History Museum.