“It was everyone’s task to detect new visual artists, reach out to renowned ones, and place diverse generations into a dialogue, connecting emerging and established talents. This was an aim, a working principle, and it was our goal to elaborate a model with a Latin American contour, but not limited to it, or better yet, make a statement that demanded the incorporation of the other in order to fully grasp that contour…

“Out of the generosity of many artists who collaborated with Point of Contact, a collection began to grow, which, through the years took a peculiar form. It does not respond to the usual criteria of art collections, such as periods, geographies, or artistic tendencies, but rather it unites a well-defined cultural calling, an almost romantic faith in the aesthetic experience as our main redeemer.”
Ana Tiscornia, 2015


The Point of Contact permanent Art Collection consists of approximately 200 pieces of contemporary photography, collage, video, drawings, and unique prints. Artists in the Point of Contact Art Collection include:

Gabriela Alva C.
Burt Barr
Roy Bautista
Patricia Bentancur
Luis Camnitzer
Perez Celis
Marta Chilindron & Eduardo Costa
Nayda Collazo Lloréns
Papo Colo
Kristina Colovic
Maureen Conner
Jaime Davidovich
Katherine Desjardins
Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin
Nancy Graves
Denise Green
Jane Hammond
Sarah Kipp
Leandro Katz
Elka Krajewska
Joseph Kugielsky
Adriano Lambe
Alberto Lastreto
Hung Liu
Marco Maggi
Juan Mandelbaum
Panayiotis Michael
Priscilla Monge
Luis Felipe Noe
Nam June Paik
Cesar Paternosto
Izhar Patkin
Judy Pfaff
Liliana Porter
Arnaldo Roche-Rabel
Graciela Sacco
Regina Silveira
Sandy Skoglund
Ana Tiscornia
Rob van Erve
Ursula Von Rydingsvard
William Wegman
Víctor Vázquez

Point of Contact and Pedro Cuperman Archive

Biographical History:

Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact was founded in 1975 by professor Pedro Cuperman. Point of Contact began as an editorial project dedicated to publishing creative scholarship and original works of art together. The program became a cross-disciplinary publication for writers, scholars, and visual arts. In 2005, Point of Contact expanded its vision with the opening of the gallery, at 914 E. Genesee Street, Syracuse, NY, and later moved to the Nancy Cantor Warehouse at 350 W Fayette Street in 2013. Point of Contact Gallery is dedicated to the exploration of contemporary verbal and visual arts, with an emphasis on Latin American artists and writers.

Scope and Contents of the Collection:

The Point of Contact and Pedro Cuperman Archive consists of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, news clippings, videos, and academic work.

Further details and access are forthcoming.