Join us for an illuminating conversation exploring the life, art, and legacy of Frida Kahlo, one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century.
Featuring:
Circe Henestrosa, Curator and fashion scholar, renowned for groundbreaking exhibitions on Frida Kahlo’s personal style, identity, and political image in conversation with Chennie Huang, President of Artists Talk on Art.
Dr. Circe Henestrosa
Dr. Circe Henestrosa is a Mexican fashion curator, scholar, and Head of the School of Fashion at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore. Her curatorial practice explores the intersections of fashion, identity, and culture through decolonial and cross-cultural lenses. She is best known for landmark exhibitions such as Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2018) and Appearances Can Be Deceiving at the Frida Kahlo Museum (2012). A global advocate for fashion education and heritage, Henestrosa’s research and exhibitions foreground voices and practices from Mexico and Southeast Asia. She has collaborated with leading institutions and fashion houses including Dior, positioning fashion as a tool for cultural dialogue and sustainability. Her work bridges scholarship, curation, and creative leadership, reimagining fashion as a site of empathy, place-based knowledge, and tropical futures.
Talk
Circe Henestrosa, Mexican fashion curator, will be in conversation with Chennie Huang, President of the Board of Directors of Artists Talk on Art, to share her journey curating and interpreting Frida Kahlo’s personal archive. Locked away for fifty years after the artist’s death, this remarkable collection of clothing and personal objects became the foundation for an exhibition that revealed how Kahlo’s experiences of disability, ethnicity, politics, and gender identity shaped her life, art, and distinctive style.
This program was conceived and developed under the direction of Chennie Huang, with curatorial collaboration from Hannah Greisen, whose contributions helped bring this conversation to life.