Nowadays it is fairly common to find in the main venues and institutions art exhibitions presenting anthologies of female artists.Frequently enough, the works presented in such exhibitions show little if any relation among them, and the curatorial criteria seem to be limited to the sex of the artist.As a result of the consolidation of cultural politics linked with liberal multiculturalism, Latinoamerican female artists are twice exotized: first as women and then as people who come from the periphery of the global system.This paper presents a genealogy of the concept of Latinoamerican female artist, taking discourse analysis as a method to examine curatorial texts from three art exhibitions presented in the United States between the decades of the eighties and the nineties.