1999

Cat. No. EX1999.01 

Dates: April 3 - September 5, 1999

Little Brown Bodies:  An open-form exhibit that was constantly changing. The exhibition and commentaries on the works reflect on-going encounters, conversations, and studio visits with the artists and Carolina Ponce de León, Galería's new Executive Director. "Little Brown Bodies" brings together works by artists whose works address issues of identity and difference -- personal, cultural, political, sexual -- through the representation of the body.  Artists included:  Adál, Francisco Camplis, Víctor Cartagena, Leonard Castellanos, Eugenio Castro, Enrique Chagoya, Sal García, Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra, Ester Hernández, Gigi Otálvaro, Isis Rogríguez, Daniel Salazar.

Cat. No. EX1999.02

Dates: June 5 - June 21, 1999

Mi Vida Loca/Mi Arte Loco: An Exhibition of Pinto Art: an exhibition of fierce, ultrabaroque ballpoint and pencil art from the South West. Many of the self-taught artists featured in this exhibit are currently in prison, but their cultural pride shines through. The drawings are intricate, iconographic, fatalistic and filled with recurring images of dazzling lowriders, prisons, gang violence, idealized beauties of the Mexican revolution and images of Jesus and the Virgen of Guadalupe. The exhibition is a collaboration with Mi Vida Loca Magazine, a publication of art, literature and poetry for young Latinos/as. In addition to the exhibition, Galería will host an open-mike event for young poets.

Cat. No. EX1999.03

Dates: July 9 - July 24, 1999

Making a Case for Community History  In collaboration with the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society, Galería will present an exhibition showcasing archival materials -- art, photography, props, costumes, publications -- which document the culture, history and arts of Gay and Lesbian communities of diverse ethnic backgrounds. Some of the communities represented include: the Latino, African American, Native American, and Asian American communities of San Francisco.

Cat. No. EX1999.04 

Dates: September 18 - November 7, 1999

Papel Picado: The Paper Cut-Outs of Carmen Lomas-Garza  was South Texas-born Chicana's first public presentation of artworks created by her in this traditional medium. It featured 17-large paper cut-outs.  The cut-outs, or Papel Picado, are the evolution of a centuries-old Latin American tradition. Inspired by the Chicano Movement, Carmen Lomas Garza's works concentrate on the everyday lives of Mexican Americans based on her memories and experiences in South Texas.

Cat. No. EX1999.05

Dates: November 20 - December 20, 1999

Bomba! Latino Erotica. A juried exhibition produced by Galería's (Re)Generation Collective. An evening of performance and poetry by emerging Latino writers will be held in conjunction with the exhibition. 

2000

Cat. No. EX2000.01

Dates: February 4 - June 23, 2000

The Brown Sheep Project Organized by Galería de la Raza in collaboration with La Pocha Nostra, Circuit Network and La Peña Cultural Center. The Brown Sheep project is a high energy performance workshop by performance artist, Mac Arthur fellow and All Things Considered contributor Guillermo Gómez-Peña. The workshop will lead to 2 public performances: one at Galería (June 23) and the second at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley (June 25^th). The workshops are free of charge and will be held @ the Galería de la Raza.

Cat. No. EX2000.02

Dates: March 4 - April 15, 2000

The Life & Times of Culture Clash: A 15-year Journey An exhibition featuring the art of Culture Clash and paintings, drops, drawings, prints & artworks by a variety of artists, including Jose Antonio Burciaga, Gronk, Acebo, David Avalos and others.

Cat. No. EX2000.03

Dates: April 21 - June 4, 2000

Out of Line: Chicano/Latino drawings & works on paper An exhibition of drawings featuring cartoons, tattoo designs & pinto & fine art drawings by artists from the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Mexico, and Colombia. Artists: Ester Hernández, Felipe Erhenberg, Jose Antonio Suárez, Lalo Alcaraz, Artemio Rodriguez, Leon Ferrari, among others

Cat. No. EX2000.04

Dates: June 23 - September 10, 2000

Cat. No. EX2000.05

Dates: September 23 - November 5, 2000

El Último Difunto In collaboration with the Mexican Museum. A (Re)Generation-artist produced project presenting a critical perspective on the "mainstreaming" of Day of the Dead celebrations in California.

2001

Cat. No. EX2001.01

Dates: February 3 - March 31, 2001

Atlas(t): A Mapping Expedition/Exhibition from Asian/Pacific/Latino Artists

A (Re)Generation Project in collaboration with Kearney Street Workshop-Next

Members of (Re)Generation, Galería's emerging artists program collaborate with their Asian counterparts at Kearny Street Workshop to assemble a fresh series of collaborative art events.  The centerpiece of this collaboration will be atlas(t), a 35-artist exhibition of new multimedia art. 

Cat. No. EX2001.02

Dates: April 20 - June 2, 2001

In the Heart of the World: Fotos, Arte, Videos y Otros Bienes de la Insurgencia Zapatista.

In the Heart Of the World explores the history and political ramifications of the Zapatista movement through an exhibit focusing on the visual culture and language identified with the uprising.  It includes photographs depicting the famous, infamous and unknown participants in the Zapatista uprising, Zapatista folk embroideries, dolls and hand-crafts, zapatistabilia, and videos.

Cat. No. EX2001.03

Dates: June 22 - August 26 2001

Los Cybrids: Tecno-Putografía Virtual

A new-genre public arts project featuring works and performance by Latino/a artists whose work incorporates the latest digital and web technologies while remaining intensely critical of cyber-cheerleading. The project reflects the ongoing vitality of the Mexican mural tradition and the Bay Area's leading role in the incorporation of the new technologies into the region's non-profit visual and performing arts programs.

Cat. No. EX2001.04

Dates: September 22 - November 17, 2001

Ester Hernandez: Everyday Passions

An exhibition presenting recent works by a major Chicana artist.  Ester Hernandez has been associated with both San Francisco's Mission District and the Galería since the 1970s, exhibiting in some of the gallery's earliest shows. Over the decades, her work has stood out for it's humor, high craft and political bite.  She has continued to play a key role in the Galería's activities, as an unofficial artistic advisor to the organization and most importantly, as a mentor for young Latino artists. With this exhibition, Ester Hernandez brings her artwork back to the Galería.

Cat. No. EX2001.05

Dates: December 15- December 29, 2001

The Affordable Xmas Art Show

2002

Cat. No. EX2002.01  

Dates: February 2, 2002

We Carry A Home With Us: Post-Immigrant Reflections

In Collaboration with La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley

La Peña Cultural Center Artist in Residence Elia Arce leads a cast of emerging Latino/a spoken word and performance artists from the Bay Area in a multi-media, spoken word performance focusing on the issue of Latino immigrant relations to family, society and each other.

Performers include Bay Area Spoken word artists: Paul Flores, Alma Garcia, Leticia Hernandez, Anna Herrera, Melissa Lozano, Marc Pinate, Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Jime Salcedo-Malo, Pablo Rodriguez, and Isaias Rodriguez.

Cat. No. EX2002.02  

Dates: March 9 - May 11, 2002

Photographic Memory & Other Shots in the Dark

Photographic Memoryfeatures photography, video, and computer-mediated art by 14 artists from the Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego and from Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Uruguay. Featured artists will focus on the way photos reinforce, distort, create and dissolve memory. Honoring and disrupting traditional photographic techniques, the artists try to shoot the unshootable while subverting the alleged "objectivity" of the medium.

Participating artists include: Richard Lou & Robert Sanchez alias Los Antropolocos (San Diego), Francisco Dominguez (Sacramento),  Pedro Lepe (Mexico-Bay Area), Oscar Muñoz (Colombia), Wura Natasha Ogunji (Oakland), Tatiana Parcero (Mexico-Miami), Marta María Pérez Bravo (Cuba-Monterrey, Mexico), Armando Rascón (San Francisco), Alfredo Salomón (Mexico), Ana Tiscornia (Uruguay-NYC), Susie Valdez (San Francisco), and Miguel Angel Rojas (Colombia).

Cat. No. EX2002.03  

Dates: July 13 - August 31, 2002

Substance of Choice

(Re)Generation Annual Group Exhibition

Cat. No. EX2002.04  

Dates: September 7 - September 14, 2002

The Resurrection of Tigilau

Multimedia installation by Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Marcos Larsen, and Linda Reynolds.

Three artists working in different mediums -- sound, music, and visual arts -- and coming from different cultural backgrounds -- Latino, Samoan, and USA -- have come together to create this audio installation that re-tells the Samoan story, The Resurrection of Tigilau, by sourcing traditional Samoan narratives, oral histories and contemporary environmental location recordings.

Cat. No. EX2002.05  

Dates: September 28 - November 23, 2002

Viology: Violence of Culture & Cultures of Violence

A group exhibition presenting artists from the Bay Area, New York, Los Angeles, as well as from Costa Rica, Colombia, El Salvador and Mexico whose works address issues of violence. Featuring artworks created in different mediums, Viology explores how artists of color respond to particular experiences of violence ranging from pervasive "commercial" media representations, to domestic, political, and institutional forms of violence. Artists include: Juan Manuel Echavarría (Colombia), Priscila Monje (Costa Rica), Arnaldo Morales (Puerto Rico - USA), Julio Morales (San Francisco), Ana Claudia Munera (Colombia), Sergio de la Torres (Bay Area), Gustavo Vasquez (Mexico-Bay Area), and others.

Cat. No. EX2002.06  

Dates: November 23 - December 15, 2002

Xmas Art Show

The Xmas Art Show allows Galería to enhance it's own economic development by mounting an exhibit where the all the art is for sale. It also provides an opportunity for a dozen artists and craftspersons to exhibit and sell their work in an attractive, professional gallery setting.

2003

Cat. No. EX2003.01  

Dates: February 8  - March 22, 2003

Patrick "Pato" Herbert: Somoson

Somosons features a series of large-scale photographs and light-boxes by LA-based artist, Pato Herbert. Herbert has been photographing spaces within and between two notions tierra [Earth, land] and territory. Tierratories is concerned with spaces peculiar to L.A., which are intelligent and evocative in their visual anarchy, and which seem to be quite Third World in their aesthetic sensibilities. 

Cat. No. EX2003.02  

Dates: May 17 - 31, 2003

Moment's Notice

Moment's Notice is a collective collage that will be created at Galería de la Raza between April 16th and May 2nd. To create it, Galería will use a radically open exhibiting system: all artists/poets are invited to bring a hang-ready 2D art piece addressing their immediate and most pressing thoughts and concerns about our times.  The artist will then choose a spot on the wall and add his/her piece to the collective wallscape.  The final collage will be called Moment's Notice.

Cat. No. EX2003.03  

Dates: June 15 - August 9, 2003

Armando Rascón: Border Xicanography 

Over the past 20 years, SF-based Chicano artist Armando Rascón has researched the underpinnings of cultural boundaries. Rascón created a site-specific multimedia installation exploring the whimsical and hybrid religious practices found in US/Mexico border towns. From Boudhas and Virgins of Guadalupe, to "Boudhalupes" and hybrid saints canonized by undocumented border-crossers, Rascón examines religious pop/street culture inviting to a reflection on spirituality, urgency, cultural hybridity and art.

Cat. No. EX2003.04  

Dates: August 31 - October 20, 2003

Land Rites

Annual ReGeneration Group Exhibition

Each year, the ReGeneration Advisory Board organizes an emerging artist group exhibition. This year the curatorial team will invite a group of 10 to 15 Bay Area Latino artists working in all media.

Cat. No. EX2003.05  

Dates: November 22, 2003

Pachanga!! Holiday Auction and Art Sale

This holiday auction and art sale will feature works by emerging and established artists who support Galería's mission.  The exhibition serves as a fundraising event and cultivates collectors. 

2004

Cat. No. EX2004.01  

Dates: January 24 -  March 27, 2004

Cat. No. EX2004.02  

Dates: April 15 - May 23, 2004

Divinamente presents video, photography, and installation work by thirteen artists living and working in Colombia and who are exhibiting their work for the first time in the Bay Area.  Artists: Wendy Anzola, Sylvie Boutiq, José Tómas Giraldo, Simon Hernández, Humberto Junca, Alejandro Mancera, Juan Mejía, Ana María Millán, Yomayra Puentes, Catalina Rodriguez, Gabriel Sierra, Giovanni Vargas, and Rolando Vargas. Curated by Michèle Faguet, Director of Espacio La Rebeca, Bogotá, Colombia.

Cat. No. EX2004.03  

Dates: Dates: June 5^th - July 17, 2004

URBAN  ECHOS: Wind, River, Trees, Clouds, Chickens, and Orange

Urban Echoes features photography, digital prints and video by eight artists from Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and the U.S., who look at nature and landscapes from an urban perspective. The exhibition includes September 10 2001, a video by Monika Bravo filmed from the 30^th floor of the World Trade Center on the eve of the tragic attacks; photographic prints by María Elvira Escallón of wood carvings done directly to native trees in Colombian forests; video portraits of chickens and other animals by María Fernanda Cardoso, the journeys of Felipe Dulzaides' pet orange through downtown SF, and other works that rescue fragments of nature from the harsh angularity and crowded isolation of the urban centers that shape our gaze.

Participating Artists: Monika Bravo (Colombia-NYC), Bibi Calderado (Argentina - NYC), María Fernanda Cardoso (Colombia-Sydney), Francisco Dominguez (USA), Felipe Dulzaides (Cuba-San Francisco), María Elvira Escallón (Colombia-Bogotá), Sean MacFarland (USA), and Armando Rascón (USA)