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Born in 1969 in New Orleans, Matthew Sontheimer received a B.F.A. from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, and an M.F.A. from Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. He has had solo gallery exhibitions in New York at DCKT Contemporary and Achim Moeller Fine Art; in Houston at the Hiram Butler Gallery, the Sally... Read More →

Fidencio Fifield-Perez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, but raised in the U.S. after his family migrated. His current work examines borders, edges, and the people who must traverse them. In his work, Fifield-Perez’s interdisciplinary practice centers the materiality of paper ephemera, everyday self- documents discarded after having fulfilled their purpose. For Fifield-Perez, printmaking, collage, and... Read More →

121 Hanes Art Center Marilyn Boror Bor (Guatemala, 1984) is an artist, independent curator, lecturer, and Maya-Kaqchikel cultural manager. Recognized for her socially engaged practice, she works on identity, memory, colonialism, and cultural resistance. She has participated in biennials such as the Aichi Triennale (Japan), the Leandre Cristòfol Biennial (Barcelona), the São Paulo Biennial, the... Read More →

“Enacting Radical Futures Beyond Survival Mode, an artist talk by hazel batrezchavez” hazel batrezchavez is a brown queer artist and educator. Their textiles, performance, and sculptural works are rooted in the politics of survival and the poetics of movement. batrezchavez’s work has been exhibited at El Paso Museum of Art (TX), Santa Fe Art Institute... Read More →

“Figure, Narrative, and Image-Making” 121 Hanes Art Center Juan Arango Palacios was born in Pereira, Colombia, and was raised in a traditional Catholic home. His traditional upbringing was cut short by a series of migrations that his family took seeking a better future. Juan’s family moved from Colombia to southern Louisiana where Juan’s sense of... Read More →

121 Hanes Art Center rafa esparza (b. 1981, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) received a BA from University of California, Los Angeles (2011). Solo exhibitions have been held at Artists Space, New York (2023); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2021); MASS MoCA, North Adams (2019); ArtPace, San Antonio (2018); and Ballroom Marfa... Read More →

"Balancing Act on Home, Art, and Academia: A Reckoning From the Margins" Lorena Molina is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator and curator. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media in the School of Art at the University of Houston. She was also the founder and the director of Third Space Gallery, a... Read More →

121 Hanes Art Center “Of Ice, Volcanoes, and Whales: Notes on a Summer Expedition to the Arctic” Beatriz Cortez is a multidisciplinary artist born in El Salvador and based in Los Angeles and Davis, California. Her work explores simultaneity, multiple temporalities, the untimely, and speculative imaginaries of the future. Her recent solo exhibitions include Storm... Read More →

121 Hanes Art Center Stan Douglas is an artist whose work explores social histories played out through complex cinematic and televisual language. His interest in the social implementation of Western ideas of progress, particularly utopian philosophies, is located in their often divisive political and economic effects. His interrogation of the structural possibilities of film and... Read More →