Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts,
Providence, RI
Oct. 21- Nov. 12, 2021
EXHIBITION – ALL TOGETHER NOW
During this pandemic and time of greater reckoning with the inequalities in our society we have never been physically further apart and have had such a great need to come together to face our challenges. Curated by Jan Howard, Houghton P. Metcalf Jr. Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the RISD Museum. The resulting exhibition brings together 47 images from across the United States and Canada presenting a peek into a diverse cross section communities in 2021.
All Together Now includes work from: Ken Allison, Annabel Attridge, Vincent Benavidez, Sharon Bibeault, Beatta Bosworth, Adele Brown, Tod Bryant, Chris Bunney, Rachel Clark, Daniel Cosentino, Laurence Cuelenaere, Linda DeRosa, Jean Duffy, Timothy Durant, Sherman Fleming, George Gonzalez, Lindsey Morrison Grant, Xandra Ibarra, Kimberly Keller, Beth Kerschen, Mark Liebowitz, Randy Matusow, Paul Murray, Jonathan Pitts-Wiley, Robin Radin, Linda-Marlena Ross, Peter Tilgner & Yvonne D. Williams
Sept. 15, 2021
Lilley Museum of Art, Reno, NV
CONVERSATION – Dr. Sayak Valencia and Xandra Ibarra
A bilingual event in which Mexican philosopher, writer and performance artist Dr. Sayak Valencia will talk about her work on Gore Capitalism and Xandra Ibarra will discuss her visual and performance artworks. Discussion will be moderated by Guadalupe Escobar.
July 11, 2021
Headland Center For The Arts- Marin, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION – Open House Lite
After over a year without gathering, we at Headlands are excited to welcome back one of our most honored traditions and far-reaching engagements: Open House. As we reopen our historic buildings to the public, we’re doing so on a reservation basis, with limited capacity per room/studio and more outdoor and distanced activities.
For Reservation Info:
headlands.org/event/open-house-lite/
July 9, 2021- Jan. 15, 2022
Lilley Museum of Art, Reno, NV
GROUP EXHIBITION –
EN MEDIO | Senses of Migrations
EN MEDIO | Senses of Migrations will attempt to stimulate dialogue, raise consciousness about issues related to the act of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border through all the facets of art. The exhibition includes artists from all over the world that explore the theme of this show through music, photography, painting, video and performance art.
May 14- June 20, 2021
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
GROUP EXHIBITION –
50th Annual MFA Exhibition
Every year since 1970, BAMPFA and UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice have collaborated to present an exhibition of works by Berkeley Master of Fine Arts graduates. The 2020 exhibition, which would have marked the fiftieth anniversary of this historic partnership, was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. A year later, with our galleries reopening to the public at last, we celebrate by showcasing the exceptional work of Brian Bartz, Xandra Ibarra, Leena Joshi, Brontez Purnell, Ghazal Rahimi, and Jessica Robbins.
For more information visit:
bampfa.org
May 2 – 23, 2021
Headlands Center For The Arts, Sausalito, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION – Tarsal by Metatarsal
Tarsal by Metatarsal explores the seven Graduate Fellows’ varied engagements with the body in its expansive and multivalent manifestations: as archive and ecosystem, instrument and metaphor, specter and source. Tasked with creating work under the extraordinary weight of the current moment side by side the bone-crushing persistence of ableism, capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy, the participating fellows utilize a spectrum of strategies and tactics to assemble a body of work that is simultaneously an encounter of the present and an index of what the body remembers, endures, and survives.
Thursday, April 8-22, 2021
Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico (ONLINE)
3pm SJ /12pm PST
CICLO DE RELECTURA –
“Socially Engaged Art, ¿Pa’ Qué Me Invitan?
En abril comienza el Ciclo de (re)lecturas de La Ivan Illich, los encuentros son virtuales y abiertos a todxs lxs intersadxs en y fuera de Puerto Rico. Para reservar un espacio escribir a info@betalocal.org. In this reading group, we will think through, critique and discuss (some) social limits and capacities of social art- art that engages the public, community, and/or site- to unearth how our positions as participants and/or artists function as ‘sites’ to be mobilized, exploited, and engaged in the service of social movements and dominant art markets.
All readings will be provided in English. Discussion will be conducted in Spanglish and in the colonial languages of English & Spanish.
ONE Archives, USC Libraries, Los Angeles (ONLINE)
March 25, 2021
CONVERSATION/VIDEO/SCULPTURE – “Nothing Lower Than I”
Join visual artist Xandra Ibarra as she explores leather, sex, and vulnerability inspired by the Sheree Rose and Bob Flanagan collections at the ONE Archives at USC. Anchored in an artistic study of Flanagan and Rose’s canonical performances exploring sadism, masochism, pleasure, illness, and disability in Los Angeles in the 1980s and ’90s, Ibarra will construct and fashion wheelchair parts with leather tooling and upholstery. Ibarra’s original performance video “Nothing Lower Than I” will be followed by an illuminating conversation with UC Riverside professor Jennifer Doyle, California College of the Arts professor Tina Takemoto, and postdoctoral fellow at the ONE Archives Jeanne Vaccaro.
March 5, 2021
Austin, Texas (ONLINE)
GROUP PANEL – Legacies on Legacies
The Austin-based OUTsider film festival celebrates the bold originality and creative nonconformity of the LGBTQ+ communities through the presentation of provocative, and out-of-the-box film, dance, theater, performance art, music, writing and visual art. This year’s annual festival unites queer artists, audiences and scholars from around the globe to exchange ideas, ignite conversations, transcend boundaries and experience new pleasures through artistic discovery.
The All-Star Conference on the (virtual) couch of “Festival Favorite” performances features: Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, Zackary Drucker, Xandra Ibarra (Aka La Chica Boom), M. Lamar, Pedra Costa, Yuliya Lanina, Nia & Ness, Anna Luisa Petrisko, Phranc, Pj Raval, Paul Soileau, Fargo Tbakhi, Micaela Tobin, Tribe 8, Dorian Wood
Feb. 11 – May 14, 2021
New York University, NYC
GROUP EXHIBITION
Cruising the Horizon: New York, is a vessel for radical imagination and existence to be shared and witnessed as a way for different worlds and realities to be experienced on the view that the “here and now” is simply not enough. The works in this virtual exhibition move viewers to exist and express themselves freely and radically, without the oppressive conditions, restrictions, and boundaries of normative expectations and performances, especially in terms of gender and sexuality, majoritarian belonging, white supremacy and authoritarian systems. Now, more than ever, there is a greater need to generate and present experimental thoughts, and radical modes of existence.
The exhibition is influenced by José Esteban Muñoz, renowned art critic and queer theorist, and his book “Cruising Utopia,” where he writes that the “here and now is a prison house” and simply not enough. Muñoz calls for dreams and imaginations to drive us forward to a future “then and there,” where true queerness and “greater openness to the world” exists.
For more information visit:
www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/sp2021/cruisingthehorizon-exhibition
Dec. 8, 2020
New Museum, NYC
(ONLINE)
PANEL DISCUSSION
Join us as we celebrate the launch of Saturation: Race, Art and the Circulation of Value (MIT Press, 2020) with a special discussion featuring contributing artists Xandra Ibarra, Kent Monkman, and Tourmaline, moderated by artist and scholar Richard Fung, and with an introduction by co-editors C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp.
For more information visit:
tfaforms.com/4862398
Oct. 25 – Jan. 24, 2021
Real Art Ways, Hartford, Ct
GROUP EXHIBITION
This exhibition considers the roles artists play in monument removal and making– as educators unearth histories and meanings of existing monuments, activists participate in direct action that leads to monument removal, and civic designers work alongside government officials to envision new processes for including everyday people in monument-making. As a whole, the featured artworks and projects reject a top-down approach, consider who and what we remember, and what places, events, and movements matter. Featured artists include Rebecca Belmore, Jeffrey Meris, Cassils, Paper Monuments, Nick Cave, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Doreen Garner, Marisa Williamson, Xandra Ibarra, Veo Veo Design Studio, Nate Lewis.