Patssi Valdez in Conversation with C. Ondine Chavoya: Photography in Valdez’s Artistic Practice

SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2027

This conversation brings together artist Patssi Valdez and C. Ondine Chavoya, John D. Murchison Regents Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin, for a discussion of the role of photography in Valdez’s artistic practice. A leading scholar of Chicanx and Latinx art, Chavoya will engage Valdez in a conversation that revisits her longstanding, yet often overlooked, relationship with the photographic medium.

Best known as a founding member of the influential Chicano art collective Asco, Valdez has maintained an active photographic practice that has developed alongside her work in painting, performance, and other media. Moving between early photographic experiments and her current practice, the conversation will consider photography as a site of artistic exploration, documentation, and self-representation, while examining how the medium has informed Valdez’s broader artistic trajectory.