Dec 5 - 7, 2024
Granoff Center for Creative Arts, Providence, RI
VIDEO SCREENING- QUEER DURATIONS
QUEER DURATIONS is a three-day symposium delving into the significance of duration as a vital aesthetic concern for performance, visual, and media artists. Seeking to illuminate connections between duration and the artistic rendering of queer lives, communities, and subjectivities, the gathering will feature performances as well as talks by artists, scholars, and curators.
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Nov 8, 2024
Screening and Discussion, UC Riverside
VIDEO SCREENING- GLOBAL LATINIDADES PROJECT
Join us for an afternoon of viewing Xandra Ibarra’s video work followed by a discussion with the artist in person. This event is made possible by the beferous sponsorship of Dr. Ricky Rodriguez and the Gloval Latinidades Project. Screening will take place INTS 1113 at 2pm on November 8, 2024.
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Oct 5, 2024 - March 2, 2025
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION - SCIENTIA SEXUALIS
Scientia Sexualis centers research-driven interventions into raced and gendered assumptions that structure scientific disciplines governing our sense of the sexual body. The artists in this exhibition bring attention to the material, conceptual, and psychic forms of the lab and the clinic as aesthetics that operate across scientific and artistic discourses. The exhibition catalogue will feature new writing by leading interdisciplinary scholars who will map key concepts (sex, race, Indigeneity), materials (instruments, specimens, biomatter), and disciplines (psychiatry, anthropology, reproductive medicine) that the artists engage through their work. Together with the catalogue and related programming, Scientia Sexualis aims to examine and reconfigure the relationship between art and science and, in turn, to create an alternative access point to the history of science where sex, gender, and pleasure are concerned.
Featured artists include: Panteha Abareshi, Dotty Attie, Louise Bourgeois, Nao Bustamante, Andrea Carlson, Demian DinéYazhi’, Nicole Eisenman, El Palomar, dean erdmann, Jes Fan, Nicki Green, Oliver Husain & Kerstin Schroedinger, Xandra Ibarra, KING COBRA (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner), Joseph Liatela, Candice Lin, Carlos Motta, Wangechi Mutu, Young Joon Kwak & Gala Porras-Kim, Cauleen Smith, P. Staff, Joey Terrill, Chris E. Vargas, Millie Wilson, and Geo Wyex.
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Sept 21, 2024 - February 2, 2025
Chet Holifield Federal Building, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION - PURGATORIO
Curated by April Baca, PURGATORIO visualizes the Holifield's architectural and political contradictions and its role in political violence, technological mediation, and communal displacement, particularly along the U.S.-Mexico border. The exhibition takes its title from an unfinished poem by American poet Hart Crane, whose ambivalence and fascination with Mexico and its varied landscapes conceived of exile from a rampant U.S. technological ethos as a type of purgatory. Purgatorio's hybrid presentation will feature intergenerational and regionally dispersed artists whose artworks will be represented in a virtual remodeling of the Chet Holifield Federal Building in Laguna Nigel, CA
Los Angeles-based artist Peter Wu will design the show's online presentation, Purgatorio, which will be staged as both an installation in the larger physical exhibition (Digital Capture) and as its own independent online exhibition hosted through Wu+'s online gallery EPOCH.
May 29, 2024
Oshman Hall, Stanford University, CA
SCREENING-DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY
Please join the Bay Area Latinx Art & Activism research workshop this Wednesday, May 29th, at 4:30pm in Oshman Hall for a screening and conversation with artist Xandra Ibarra. Ibarra will present a suite of video works and documentation of her performance, Nude Laughing. A brief discussion and Q&A will follow the video screenings.
Apr. 26 - May 18, 2024
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION- ABSOLUTE MEMORY: AN ARCHIVE OF SOFTNESS
California College of the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce Absolute Memory: An Archive of Softness, a group exhibition featuring five artists working in themes of the everyday and subjective narrative, Widline Cadet, Xandra Ibarra, Michael Jang, Clifford Prince King, and Kenneth Tam.
Absolute Memory, which is free and open to the public, will be on view from April 26 to May 18, 2024 at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco. The exhibition is curated by the CCA Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice Class of 2024: Samantha Hiura, Megan Kelly, and Sherry Xiang.
The artists in Absolute Memory use the ‘hard’ forms of installation, video, sculpture, and photography to access the ‘soft’ archiving of memory, feelings, autobiography, auto-fiction, and the everyday as material. Each artist contributes works that treat everyday, intangible experiences of marginal subjects as material objects. Yet, their collective work maintains individual narratives. We ask: How can an archive be soft and how can an exhibition begin to unravel and reconstitute containers of cultural memory?
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Absolute Memory: An Archive of Softness
Feb. 16, 2024
OUTsider Fest, Austin, TX
EARLY CAREER RETROSPECTIVE
Ibarra is honored to be celebrated as the 2024 Early Career Retrospective artist at OUTsider Fest. Join us on February 16, 2024 at the Vortex in Austin, Texas.
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https://outsiderfest.org/
Jan. 19 - 21, 2024
Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITION - BENEFIT FOR VISUAL AIDS
Now in its 26th year, Postcards From the Edge is known within the art world as the most exciting and affordable way to add to a collection, offering a unique opportunity for buyers to acquire original, postcard-sized artwork for ONLY $100 EACH.
Offered on a first-come, first-served basis, each piece is exhibited anonymously, and the identity of the artist is revealed only after the work is purchased. With the playing field leveled, all participants can take home a piece by a famous artist, or one who's just making their debut in the art world.
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https://www.postcards.visualaids.org/
Jan. 6 - Feb. 4, 2024
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITION - FREE EXPRESSION AND THE INEXPRESSIBLE
Free Expression and the Inexpressible brings together eighteen contemporary artists staging connections between the personal and political dimensions of expression and inexpressibility. Through strategies that range from the discursive and polemical to the affective and abstract, they interrogate the edges of this freedom, mine its history, and posit new ways of thinking about what we can and cannot express. The artworks in Free Expression and the Inexpressible not only frame a deeply rooted and ongoing crisis, but also participate in an equally long legacy of resistance, imagination, and transformation. As visual, experiential, and affective provocations, they offer a vision of freedom in an unfree world, and new precedents for how we might make choices in conditions not of our choosing.
Featured artists include: Maura Brewer, Elaine Byrne, Abigail Raphael Collins, Avram Finkelstein, Mari Claudia García, EBB / ЭББ, Michelle Hartney, Clareese Hill, Jordan Homstad, Xandra Ibarra, Chuqiao (Chloe) Li, Melissa Ling, Katrina Majkut, Lydia Nobles, Viva Ruiz, Diana Schmertz, Asia Stewart, Max Bowens and Valerie Werder
Curated by Aliza Shvarts
For more information visit:
https://www.airgallery.org/exhibitions/free-expression-and-the-inexpressible
Nov. 18, 2023 - Jan. 7, 2024
Fragment Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITION - FOLLOWING THE BODY
Following The Body examines how artists express and challenge the notion of the body as politics, with a specific focus on Queer bodies and their identity formation, the Black and Brown body, bodies in religious cults, as well as body modification as a way of self-identification. The body can also be seen as a protective shell and a cyborg—a combination of human and machine. Two different approaches are used to highlight these themes: the method, which might be simply described as showing 'presence through absence,' presented in this exhibition, is an active dialogue with the 'exposed body.'
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Following The Body
Dec. 8, 2023 - Apr. 21, 2024
GROUP EXHIBITION - ENCODE/STORE/RETRIEVE
The landscape of memory has shifted dramatically over the course of the Digital Age, marked by the ease and speed at which we can record, store, and share information. Through digital technologies, almost anyone can participate in the production of memory at any time. Yet the ever-growing digital archive has substantial financial and ecological impacts that we must address.
Encode/Store/Retrieve draws together artworks primarily from SJMA’s collection to explore low-tech forms of memory production from the past sixty years. The sculptures, paintings, photographs, installations, and works on paper brought together here are organized into thematic groupings that reference the key processes underlying cognitive and computational models of memory—encoding, storage, and retrieval. Bridging conversations about digital, biological, institutional, and ecological memory, the artists in this exhibition provide us strategies to grapple with the emerging issues of our growing digital archive.
Featured artists include Wallace Berman, Val Britton, Jim Campbell, Enrique Chagoya, Chryssa, Binh Danh, Steven Deo, Bruce Hasson, Xandra Ibarra, Dinh Q. Lê, Darlene Nguyen-Ely, Margaret Nielsen, Harold Paris, Beverly Rayner, Analia Saban, Katherine Sherwood, Rose B. Simpson, Stephanie Syjuco, Stella Waitzkin, Xiaoze Xie, and more.
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
For more information visit:
sjmusart.org/exhibition/encode-store-retrieve