In Your Face: Chicano Art after CARA

In 1990, a notable exhibition attempted to create a visual documentation and analysis of the Chicano Art Movement from 1965 to 1985. CARA (Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation) was organized by the Wight Art Gallery at the University of California, Los Angeles. More than 30 years later, the curatorial team of The AltaMed Art Collection chose to bring this historical exhibition to Rome, Berlin, Madrid, and Guanajuato.

We shared the same goal as with CARA: "to present this work in a way that allows it to be understood and appreciated outside the community of Chicanos, as well as inside of it." We selected artists from the CARA exhibition who are also represented in the collection and picked up where CARA left off in 1985.

The title of the exhibition, In Your Face, is not only a literal reference to the acronym CARA (face in Spanish) but also a recognition that Chicano art remains bold, provocative, and ambitious. Chicano(a) artists continue to be political, as well as concerned about civil liberties and social injustice, and they still depict strong feminist visions, urban images, and cultural icons. Today, we can say with absolute certainty that Chicano art has redefined American art and continues to do so.

Source: Exhibition catalogue for In Your Face: Chicano Art After CARA.

September 28, 2022 - January 21, 2023
Instituto Cervantes di Roma, Rome, Italy

March 2 - June 2, 2023
Instituto Cultural de México en Alemania, Berlin, Germany

July 6 - August 27, 2023
Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga, Veranos de la Villa, Madrid, Spain

October 14, 2023 - February 4, 2024
Museo Conde Rul, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, México