Exhibition Catalogs

Christina Fernandez, a Los Angeles–based artist who has spent over three decades conducting rich explorations of migration, labor, gender, her Mexican American identity, and the capacities of photography itself. Featuring essays by art historians and scholars of Latinx studies, as well as interviews with the artist, this catalog surveys the development of Fernandez’s work from...

La Raza, launched in 1967 in the basement of an Eastside LA church, was conceived as a tool for community-based organizing during the early days of the Chicano movement. The all-volunteer staff of the newspaper, and the magazine that followed, informed their readers and exhorted them to action through images and articles that showcased protests...

The exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing explored the universal concept of “home,” whether envisioned as dwelling, residence, or place of origin. Home, which opened at LACMA and traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presented the artwork of forty US Latino and Latin American artists. The exhibition placed these works—which span the hemisphere and seven decades of...

Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell surveys the career of Laura Aguilar, a Chicana photographer who is most widely known for black-and-white nude self-portraits that are frank and self-assertive, yet deeply sensitive and poetic. In photographs that are frequently political as well as personal, Aguilar offers candid portrayals of herself, her friends and family, and her Chicano/Latino...

Ricardo Valverde: Experimental Sights, 1971–1996, an exhibition at Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM) at East Los Angeles College in collaboration with the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC), is the first survey of Valverde’s extensive body of work. A resident of Los Angeles, Valverde worked in diverse styles and from multiple perspectives. His photographs and multimedia...

The exhibition catalog for L.A. Xicano explores the diverse artistic contributions of Mexican American and Chicano artists to American art and to Los Angeles’s artistic development since 1945. The volume’s six illustrated essays examine the life and works of the dozens of artists and photographers whose works are displayed and document the important role of artists’ groups....