In La Mudanza, artist Reynaldo Rodriguez transforms discarded cardboard boxes into sculptures that chronicle his journey from Puerto Rico to Chicago. Interweaving personal struggles, Taino heritage, and Afro-Caribbean spirituality, the exhibition reflects perseverance, resilience, and the power of upcycled materials to carry stories of migration, identity, and survival.

Curated by Jorge Félix, Persistence|Persistencia explores the migration of Puerto Rican artists to Chicago to advance their art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

During COVID-19 restrictions, PRAA collaborated with Para la Naturaleza and the University of Puerto Rico’s School of Architecture to present Mapa de Historia, a fully digital exhibition documenting Puerto Rico’s built heritage after Hurricane María.

Presented in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, La Primera Parada (The First Parade: Chicago Stonewall Moments) honored LGBTQ activism in Chicago’s communities of color.

The Puerto Rican Arts Alliance presents Transmutación Colectiva by Héctor Rafael, a Puerto Rican artist from Cidra. Through oil paintings of the male figure, Rafael challenges masculinity as a social construct and explores shifting views on gender and sexuality with bold, homoerotic imagery.

Colonial Portraits, Inc. (Retrato del Colonizado) is an album of reproduced portraits by Puerto Rican masters—works that shaped the face and identity of the Puerto Rican people. Thirty teens and two teaching artists from Chicago’s Black and Brown neighborhoods collaborated with a curator to explore the portraits’ historical and cultural significance.

This exhibition celebrated the work of Puerto Rican photojournalist Ángel R. Morales—known as The Journeyman—whose lens chronicled the Puerto Rican community in Chicago during the late twentieth century.

Serving as the inaugural exhibition for PRAA’s El Archivo Project, El Archivo: The Puerto Rican Experience in the Midwest introduced the importance of archives as living repositories of cultural memory.

Hatillo in Chicago brought the colorful Festival de Máscaras de Hatillo to Chicago, commemorating the biblical Día de los Santos Inocentes.

With Ponce in Chicago, PRAA continued to explore Puerto Rico’s regional traditions, this time highlighting the island’s most historic and grand carnival.

Loíza in Chicago was the first exhibition curated and designed entirely by PRAA, inaugurating its new cultural facilities and laying the foundation for the Exhibitions & Collections Program.