A major catalogue of approximately 300 illustrated pages is among the project’s components. Encompassing 10 essays by leading scholars in their respective fields, the catalogue explores the artistic, historical, and social trends and events influencing portraits in each section of the exhibition.

Marion Oettinger, Interim Director and Curator of Latin American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, contributed the introduction to the catalogue.

Miguel Bretos, historian and Senior Scholar at the National Portrait Gallery, explores Latin American portraiture through time and space, and contributed an essay on 19th-century Latin American portraiture.

Elizabeth Benson, art historian and Former Director of the Center for Study of Pre-Columbian Art, Dunbarton Oaks, wrote an essay on pre-Columbian portraiture.

Carolyn Kinder Carr, portraiture scholar and Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, developed text exploring Latin American portraiture in the context of international (particularly European and North American) portraiture.

Christopher Donnan, archaeologist, leading Moche specialist, and Former Director of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, discusses Moche portraits.

María Concepción Garcia-Saiz, art historian and Director of the Colonial Department, Museum of America (Madrid), discusses portraiture during the Vicerregal period.

Renato Gonzales Mello, art historian and Full-time Research Associate of the Institute of Aesthetic Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico, contributed an essay on Diego Rivera’s portraits.

Kirsten Hammer, art historian and Director of the Latin American Department at Sotheby’s, explores portraits of the cloistered life.

Luis-Martin Lozano, art historian and Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, provides an overview of modern portraiture.

Teodoro Vidal, art historian, collector, and leading specialist on Puerto Rican colonial painter José Campeche, discusses Campeche’s work and the vice regal period in the Caribbean.

Luis Perez Oramas, art historian, former curator of The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, and Adjunct Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, contributed an overview of contemporary portraiture