The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Life Is a Parade
1998
(American, b. 1954)
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Overall: 127 x 76.5 cm (50 x 30 1/8 in.)
© Juan Sánchez
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
This print is one of several that Juan Sánchez created in collaboration with Tamarind Institute, a print publisher in New Mexico.Description
Born in Brooklyn to Puerto Rican immigrants, Juan Sánchez explores his cultural heritage throughout his artistic practice. This print uses imagery related to Puerto Rican Day parades to consider the challenges and struggles Puerto Ricans faced upon relocating to the United States, alongside iconography—such as the upside-down palm tree—that references Puerto Rico’s history. Of the print, the artist wrote that he “wish[es] for the viewer to feel . . . the extent of my people’s anguish as well as their prevailing joys.”- {{cite web|title=Life Is a Parade|url=false|author=Juan Sánchez, Tamarind Institute|year=1998|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2024.48