Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar at Poster House

Poster House, the first museum in the United States dedicated to the global history of posters, will present new exhibitions for the spring 2025 season. Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar will open to the public on March 13, 2025 and close on September 7, 2025.

Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar, curated by Alejandro Anreus, highlights the work of Lorenzo Homar, whose influential design and printmaking earned him the nickname “the father of the Puerto Rico poster.” The exhibit focuses on three decades of Homar’s extensive career, showcasing poster designs from the 1950s through the 1990s, a time in which his work reflected the complex history of Puerto Rico.

Homar was a lifelong student of the craft of the poster, incorporating elements of Taíno, Spanish, and African cultures, as well as the rising tensions between tradition and modernity. An artist known for his extraordinary craftsmanship, Homar leveraged his poster designs to promote education and the arts, helped to establish Puerto Rican patriotic identity, and later in his career, elevate calls for the island’s independence.

This exhibit features some of Homar’s most renowned and widely-recognized political and arts posters from the 1950s through the 1990s, tracing his impact and influence as a teacher of poster design and printmaking in Latin America.