Nov. 7, 2022
FILM SCREENING – DECOLONIZING THE BODY
Queer Indigenous and Mestizx filmmakers are pushing the boundaries of the video and film in terms of gender expression and representation. In this screening, the curated works attempt to decolonize the body and the screen through various strategies. This program features Gently, Jennifer by Doane Tulugaq Avery, Gush by Fox Maxy, Chaac and Yum by Roberto Fatal, The Daily Life of Mistress Red by Peshawn Bread, and Colonial Peeps by Xandra Ibarra (also known as La Chica Boom).
REDCAT, LA
For more information visit:
redcat.org/events/decolonizing-body
Nov. 5 –
Jan. 28, 2022
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION – BLOODCHILD
“Would it be easier to know that red worms were growing in her flesh instead of mine?” — Gan, “Bloodchild” Jenkins Johnson Gallery is pleased to present Bloodchild, featuring work by Nyame Brown, Xandra Ibarra, Shara Mays, Gregory Rick, Stuart Robertson, and Leila Weifur. Taking its title from Octavia E. Butler’s story titled “Bloodchild,” first published in 1984, this exhibition invites the viewer to investigate the power of speculative fiction to imagine alternative world-buildings and narrative-making strategies. Perceived as the mother of Afrofuturism, the genre blending science fiction, fantasy, and history to speculate on liberated future scenarios through a Black lens, Butler wrote cautionary tales. In her stories and novels, she projects into the future to investigate possible solutions. Using Butler’s “Bloodchild” story as a lens to look at the art-making today, the exhibition meditates on symbiosis, love, power, and tough choices.
For more information visit:
jenkinsjohnsongallery.com/usr/documents/exhibitions/press_release_url/69/bloodchild-press-release-final.pdf
Oct. 14 &
15, 2022
LIVE PERFORMANCE & FILM SCREENING – DIVAS LIVE
Support your favorite LA arts gallery and venue and attend the 2 day fundraiser Gala for HRLA: Featuring Amelia Bande, Dorian Wood, Amanda Faye Jimenez, Jasmine Nyende, Sebastian Hernandez, Xandra Ibarra (video), Page Person, Emily Lucid, rafa esparza, Pau Pescador, TMO, Jessica Emmanuel, Creepypasta Puttanesca, Carmina Escobar and more.
Human Resources, LA
For more information visit:
h-r.la
June 18, 2022
The Broad Museum, LA
SHORT FILMS – Spictacle Trilogy
by Xandra Ibarra
On June 8, as part of the group exhibition, This Is Not America’s Flag, The Broad presents an event that features time-based works by artists –Xandra Ibarra, Niña Dioz, and féi hernandez –that question and examine the complex meanings and symbolism of the US flag and issues around national identity. The exhibition features over twenty artists, including Laura Aguilar, Nicole Eisenman, Jeffrey Gibson, Jaar, and Johns, as well as African-American Flag (1990) by Hammons acquired by The Broad in 2019 and America (2021) by Hank Willis Thomas acquired last year. The special exhibition This Is Not America’s Flag spotlights the myriad ways artists explore the symbol of the US flag, underscoring its vast, divergent, and complex meanings. Titled after Alfredo Jaar’s iconic 1987 work, A Logo for America, This Is Not America’s Flag provides a critical discourse on the symbol’s meaning, the complexity and contradictions of contemporary national identity, and artists as active citizens.The exhibition was developed conceptually in the summer of 2020 during the groundswell of activism for racial justice in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor and was inspired by two works in the Broad collection, Flag (1967) by Jasper Johns and African-American Flag (1990) by David Hammons.
June 12 – July 2, 2022
Vermont Studio Center
ARTIST RESIDENCY
Vermont Studio Center (VSC) was founded by artists in 1984. VSC welcomes Ibarra and a cohort of writers and artists for residencies in Johnson, Vermont. Artists will be hosted in buildings, many of them historic Vermont landmarks, overlook the Gihon River in the northern Green Mountains.
June 4, 2022 -
June 1, 2023
GROUP/FILM EXHIBITION
Porno Chic to Sex Positivity: Erotic Content & the Mainstream, 1960 till Today chronologically traces pornography’s permeation of mainstream culture over the last forty years through a presentation of media. The history of mass media is one of political and social discrimination against forms of illicit content. When the first motion pictures came out, they were attacked and deemed too titillating for the masses. Since the first films appeared in the nineteenth century, pornographic content has moved slowly but surely from the edges to the center. While sex has always been culturally relevant, the creative revolution of the 1960s inspired a more open environment in which erotic material, called “porno chic” was embraced. Today sexual material has seeped into all aspects of mainstream mass media, energizing a variety of cultural genres and sparking the sex positivity movement. This shift of erotic content from the margins to the mainstream has been part of an overall liberalization of popular culture since the 1960s.
Composed of four thematic sections: A Pornographic Avante-Garde, Sexualized Marketing, Scandalous Scenes of Cinema, and Music: an Erotic Form, the exhibition will present a curated selection of over 60 videos. In addition to the commercial, cinematic and music video compilations and full screening of a selection of fine art and experimental films, the exhibition will feature vintage movie posters, historical ephemera and a timeline looking at censorship in media over the last six decades.
Museum of Sex, NYC
For more information visit:
museumofsex.com/portfolio_page/porno-chic-to-sex-positivity-erotic-content-the-mainstream-1960-till-today/
April 1, 2022
School of Art and Art History,
University of Iowa
ARTIST LECTURE – Virtual
A virtual lecture by artist Xandra Ibarra hosted by the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa will take place in the Spring of 2022.
March 5 -
20, 2022
Human Resources Gallery, LA
SOLO EXHIBITION – NOTHING LOWER THAN I – Curated by Jeanne Vacarro
Human Resources Los Angeles presents Nothing lower than I, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Xandra Ibarra. The exhibition is anchored in an archival exploration and artistic study of Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose’s canonical performances experimenting with sadism, masochism, pleasure, illness and disability in 1980s and 90s Los Angeles. Playing with sub mythologies and objects, Ibarra considers the relationship between care and pain, art and labor, sculpture and flesh. Her sculptures—steel pasties, bruised leather hammers, and wheelchairs—contend with the interplay of consent, race, and disability. Engaging historical and ongoing attachments, she invokes archival ghosts to think through ideas of bottomhood and dehumanization. Please join us for the opening on March 4 from 7-9pm. The exhibition is a collaboration between HRLA and the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
For more information visit:
h-r.la/event/xandra-ibarra-nothing-lower-than-i/
Feb.
18, 2022
University of California, Riverside
Artist Conversation – Virtual
Race and the Pre Modern Period, Graduate Students in English Association, and Jennifer Doyle present a virtual conversation with artist Xandra Ibarra. In conversation with Stef Toralba, Ibarra will discuss recurring themes and aesthetics in her work.
Feb. 3 — March
11, 2022
Handwerker Gallery,
Ithica, NY
GROUP EXHIBITION
ON OUR BACKS, curated by Alexis Heller, presents first-person sex worker narratives alongside allied artists’ depictions, revealing a clear, queer kinship. LGBTQAI and sex worker histories are inextricably bound with Home, the Street, and Bars, Clubs, and Bathhouses. The artworks and artifacts within these sections of the exhibition illuminate spaces in which queer and trans sex workers labor, create, build community, agitate, fuck, collaborate, and express freedom. The exhibit also highlights LGBTQAI artists who harness pornography to grow queer visibility, explore desire, and challenge conventional social doctrines. On Our Backs, the lesbian erotic magazine from which this exhibition adopts its name, is a foundational example.
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.