JOSEFINA AUSLENDER is a Latin American artist currently based in the United States. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires in 1956. During her time in Buenos Aires, her work was shown in many of the most prominent galleries, including Galeria Bonino and Julia Lublain’s Galeria del Retiro. She exhibited her work at the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and had a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires in which she exhibited 54 works from her series Los Caprichos. She was invited several times to the Miro Foundation Biennial and had a solo show at Galerie Urbane in Madrid. She also exhibited in many group shows in Argentina with artists like Enio Iommi, Maria Juana Heras-Velasco and Alfredo Llito. Auslender’s mentors were Manuel Espinoza and Billy Witelow. 

Auslender moved to the United States in the late 1980s, setting up a home in Maine. While she continued working, she did not pursue the level of representation she secured while in Argentina. The language barrier and other factors made it challenging for her to receive the same level of attention. Even so, she has had multiple solo exhibitions and her work has been acquired by a number of Maine institutions, most recently the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. She is now 90 years old and still making work!

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IAM’s CURRENT WORK …

In the summer of 2020, Josefina Auslender finalized her intent to gift her entire collection of artwork and ephemera to IAM. We will be working with Auslender to organize, document and archive her collection over the upcoming years.

We are thrilled to announce that in December of 2025 the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will mount Auslender’s first retrospective exhibition in the United States.

While we work to develop a comprehensive presentation of Josefina Auslender’s life and work, we invite you to reach out with any questions.

We are seeking volunteers to assist with this process. If you are an archivist, an art historian, a writer, a filmmaker, a camera operator, a sound engineer, a web designer, a clerical wizard or simply someone who has a keen attention to detail and a love of art, please reach out so we can discuss current opportunities.