Topic: State Violence

Large hand-painted map of the Gulf of Mexico on amate paper. Rendered in muted earth tones, blues, and greens, the work layers coastlines, rivers, ships, animals, Indigenous and colonial imagery, environmental references, and scenes of resistance across the Gulf region. “Gulf of Mexico” appears in gold at the center. Historical and contemporary events unfold simultaneously, creating a visual narrative of colonialism, migration, ecology, and cultural resilience.

Outlaw Paper: Sandy Rodriguez’s Resistance Map of Gulf of Mexico

Veronica Pesantes Vallejo

Two hospital beds form part of an art installation. A video monitor showing a patient telling their story rests on each bed. Behind the bed, a whiteboard displays handwritten notes about each patient’s illness.

Pepón Osorio’s Convalescence: Reimagining the Teaching Hospital

Megan Voeller

An all-white architectural maquette of a city park stands on a platform in a gallery with white walls and shelves with colorful sculptures visible in the background.

Between Punchline and Praxis: Chris E. Vargas’s Consciousness Razing

Stamatina Gregory

Ongoing Contestations: Kathy Vargas’s My Alamo

Deanna Ledezma

Sacred Migrations: Gestating the Border

Erika Hirugami

Seven black baseball caps covered in shattered polarized glass are stacked on each other and hung vertically on a steel rod.

Presence in Absence: Verónica Gaona’s Spanning Worlds

Javier Arellano Vences

A jaguar statue sits atop a tri-fold display covered in black fur with framed black and white images to the right and left of a middle section that includes an assortment of books, human remains, and other objects dipped in blood and gold.

Genesis and Apocalypse in Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s The Memorial…

Néstor David Pastor López

Sonic Vibrations

Itzel Corona Aguilar

Memories of the Skin: The Work of Carlos Martiel

B’alam García

A structure resembling a restaurant that serves pizza is installed in a gallery, including menus and a register. On the walls of the installation are video screens.

Freedom Denied

Lille Allen