PHOTOGRAPHY NEWS

February 7, 2026 - July 5, 2026

Thalia Gochez
Jen 4rom the block, 2022.
Lightjet luster print, 34 x 36 in. ed. 1/10, 35mm film photography

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside, California

Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026

Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026 is the first major survey to trace six decades of Chicana/o/x lens-based image-making, presented at The Cheech (February 7–September 6, 2026) and the Riverside Art Museum (February 7–July 5, 2026). Featuring approximately 150 works by nearly 50 U.S. Chicana/o/x artists, the exhibition unfolds thematically and across generations, linking early activist photography to contemporary practices that extend and reinterpret this legacy. Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, it brings together traditional and experimental approaches—including silver gelatin and digital prints, manipulated and constructed images, installations, and conceptual works—to examine photography’s role in shaping self-representation, cultural identity, and political expression.

The exhibition highlights pioneering figures such as Luis C. Garza, George Rodriguez, and María Varela, who documented Chicano political struggles in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as Louis Carlos Bernal, whose artistic commitment to photography marked a pivotal shift beyond documentation. Subsequent generations expanded the medium through constructed and conceptual practices, with artists including Kathy Vargas, Robert Buitrón, Ricardo Valverde, Christina Fernández, and Ken Gonzales-Day. Across this history, portraiture emerges as a key strategy for autonomy and self-definition, from Harry Gamboa Jr.’s Chicano Male Unbonded to Laura Aguilar’s intimate self-portraits. Recent artists such as Star Montana, Arlene Mejorado, Thalía Gochez, and Eduardo L Rivera further broaden the field through installation, digital platforms, and contemporary visual cultures, reflecting evolving narratives of selfhood, family, and community. Read more »

October 16, 2025 - January 12, 2026

Cuzco, Peru, 1960 © Sergio Larrain / Magnum Photos

International Center of Photography (ICP), New York City

Sergio Larrain: Wanderings

The International Center of Photography (ICP) is proud to present Sergio Larrain: Wanderings, a rare retrospective celebrating the visionary work of one of Chile’s most enigmatic photographers. This exhibition consists entirely of prints drawn from the Magnum Photos archive and offers a new perspective on Larrain’s inventive and humanist photography. The show primarily highlights the work Larrain created during the first twenty years of his career, including images made in cities such as Valparaíso, Santiago, Paris, and London. Wanderings is curated by Agnès Sire, the former Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, who previously handled the publication of his books Valparaíso and London. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Magnum Photos and provides a look at both the material and spiritual drama of rural and urban life.

Sergio Larrain was born in 1931 in Santiago into a Chilean family rich in art and culture. He eventually dedicated himself to photography, joining Magnum Photos in 1959 after meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, and remaining a member for over fifty years. Larrain’s work reveals his distinct blend of humanism and formal daring—his ability to find poetry in the everyday and transcendence in the ordinary. His notable series include Vagabond Children (1957), London (1958–59), and Valparaíso (1952–62), and his photographs, such as those made in Cuzco, Peru, in 1960, often observe the tension between poverty and joy, stillness and motion, and architecture and the human spirit. For Larrain, photography was a spiritual pursuit; he believed the best images arrived in moments of revelation, a process he described as entering a state of grace. As the exhibition unfolds, Wanderings presents a vision characterized by restlessness and revelation, where his images function as quiet miracles that bridge the distance between the visible and the invisible, the real and the imagined. Read more »

October 16, 2025 - January 12, 2026

Mujer ángel, desierto de Sonora, México, 1979. Collection Fundación MAPFRE © Graciela Iturbide

International Center of Photography (ICP), New York City

Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play

The International Center of Photography (ICP) is proud to present Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, marking the first-ever retrospective of Iturbide’s work in New York City. This landmark exhibition celebrates the visionary Mexican photographer and her profound and poetic exploration of the human experience over more than five decades. The retrospective, which is organized in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE, features nearly 200 photographs tracing the evolution of her groundbreaking career. The exhibition is curated by Carlos Gollonet, the Chief Curator of Photography at Fundación MAPFRE.

Born in Mexico City in 1942, Graciela Iturbide began her artistic journey studying film before dedicating herself to photography under the mentorship of renowned Mexican modernist Manuel Álvarez Bravo. She is celebrated for her powerful black-and-white images focused on local communities in her native Mexico. Iturbide has traveled extensively throughout Mexico, photographing the Sonoran Desert and Juchitán de Zaragoza, and internationally in places like Cuba, India, and the United States. Her work consistently turns attention to communal life, indigenous communities, and the interactions between nature and culture, seeking the meeting point between tradition and transformation. Her celebrated photographs, including those published in the 1979 book Juchitán de las Mujeres (which inspired her lifelong support of feminist causes), are characterized by a balance between the precision of ethnography and the dreamlike pull of poetry. Iturbide, who has received multiple honors, including the Hasselblad and the Premio Princesa de Asturias 2025, utilizes her lens to create symbolic terrain that functions as a living archive of collective memory and personal revelation. Read more »

Untitled: Silueta Series, 1977. © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. @ Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta: Back to the Source

Marian Goodman Gallery is proud to present Back to the Source, the gallery’s first exhibition devoted to the work of Ana Mendieta (1948–1985). This landmark presentation brings together pivotal works created between 1972 and 1985, a period that marked the full realization of Mendieta’s visionary practice. Featuring seven digitally remastered films, photographic series, newly available prints and drawings, and documentation of her ephemeral sculptural works, the exhibition traces the evolution of an artist who fused body, nature, and ritual into a unified expression of identity, spirituality, and belonging. Spanning her formative years in Iowa and her time in Mexico and Cuba, Back to the Source illuminates Mendieta’s exploration of the elemental and the eternal.

Defying traditional artistic boundaries, Mendieta transformed earth, fire, water, and air into raw materials for both creation and renewal. Her earth-body works, performed and documented in natural settings, serve as acts of communion between the self and the landscape, blurring distinctions between permanence and impermanence. Using organic matter such as feathers, flowers, branches, and moss, she infused her work with ritualistic power and spiritual resonance, invoking ancestral traditions and the cycles of life and decay. Back to the Source honors Mendieta’s enduring legacy as a pioneering figure who redefined performance, sculpture, and environmental art. Her poetic engagement with nature continues to inspire and challenge, reminding viewers of the profound interdependence between humanity and the natural world. Read more »

November 7, 2025 - January 17, 2026

Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Caja de visiones (Box of Visions), 1931 Gelatin silver print Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Purchased with funds from Craig and Kimberly Shadur, 2024.11 Photo: Rich Sanders @ Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Collaborations

The Des Moines Art Center is proud to present Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Collaborations, a landmark exhibition exploring the profound role that connection, dialogue, and shared vision played in shaping one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century photography. Featuring more than one hundred photographs and pieces of ephemera, the exhibition reveals how collaboration was not an occasional aspect of Álvarez Bravo’s practice but a defining element of his artistic identity. Often celebrated as the father of Mexican photography, Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002) developed a visual language that fused surrealism, symbolism, and realism, one that reflected the complexity of Mexico’s cultural transformation in the modern era.

Spanning more than seven decades of work, Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Collaborations traces the artist’s creative partnerships with some of the most important cultural figures of his time, including Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, André Breton, Luis Buñuel, and Octavio Paz. By examining these intersections, the exhibition invites viewers to reconsider the myth of the solitary artist and instead recognize Álvarez Bravo as part of a vibrant artistic network that redefined the possibilities of photographic authorship. Curated by Mia Laufer, former Associate Curator at the Des Moines Art Center, this presentation highlights how Álvarez Bravo’s images function as visual dialogues—each infused with collective imagination, emotional exchange, and the enduring spirit of collaboration that continues to inspire generations of artists. Read more »

October 25, 2025 - January 18, 2026

Des Moines Art Center, Iowa

August 28, 2025 - March 22, 2026

Photo of one of the Exhibition’s installations. © William Riera

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, Florida

Elliot & Erick Jiménez: El Monte

Elliot & Erick Jiménez: El Monte is the first solo museum exhibition of the artist duo Elliot & Erick Jiménez. The exhibition is on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) from August 28, 2025, through March 22, 2026. The photographers, who are identical twin brothers, present an entirely new body of work inspired by the spiritual tradition of Lucumí. This syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion emerged in late nineteenth-century Cuba. Lucumí brings together elements of Yoruba, Catholicism, and Spiritism. The show is also inspired by Lydia Cabrera’s seminal text El Monte, which was first published in Cuba in 1954 and translated into English for the first time in 2023, significantly broadening access to its insights on Caribbean spiritual practices. Organized by Maritza M. Lacayo, Associate Curator, this exhibition highlights the Jiménez twins’ bicultural upbringing as Cuban Americans raised in the Lucumí tradition.

At the center of the exhibition is a large structure that dominates the gallery space, with its interior designed to evoke both a chapel and a forest. The installation references syncretic Caribbean religions, their Catholic counterparts, and the Cuban monte (forest or wilderness)—a site associated with mystery, transformations, and spiritual encounters. Various works explore the artists’ unique relationship as identical twins, with the central structure symbolizing the shared space of the womb. Other works reimagine well-known art historical compositions through the lens of Lucumí, examining its intersections with colonialism and the Western art historical canon. While the exhibition primarily features photographs, it also includes sculptural elements interspersed throughout the gallery. Together, these works invite visitors to engage with themes of wonder, mystery, self-reflection, and discovery. Read more »

November 22, 2025 - April 19, 2026

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMoMA

Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is proud to present Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules, the first major retrospective of the acclaimed photographer’s career. Spanning more than two decades, this landmark exhibition brings together Cartagena’s most influential series in an expansive, multi-series presentation. Born in the Dominican Republic and based in Monterrey, Mexico, Cartagena explores pressing social and environmental issues through a striking range of photographic practices — including documentary images, collage, appropriated vernacular photographs, and AI-generated video. As visually dynamic as they are politically incisive, his photographs prompt viewers to question the systems that shape our world.

Rooted in Mexico but resonant far beyond its borders, Cartagena’s work examines suburban sprawl, the US–Mexico border, and growing economic inequality, while addressing broader global conditions of migration, environmental crisis, and unchecked development. Through a layered, experimental approach to image-making, Ground Rules reveals an artist deeply engaged with the intersections of geography, politics, and everyday life—inviting audiences to reconsider the cost of progress and the structures that organize contemporary experience. Read more »

November 20, 2025 - May 3, 2026

Boca Ratón Museum of Art, Boca Ratón, Florida

Eduardo Chacón: Postcards from Nowhere

The Boca Raton Museum of Art invites the public to view Eduardo Chacón: Postcards from Nowhere. The special exhibition, curated by Kelli Bodle, will be on view from Thursday, November 20, 2025, through Sunday, May 03, 2026. Postcards from Nowhere presents an intimate installation of 55 photographs of people at work and play by South Florida humanist photographer Eduardo Chacón. This is a combined special exhibition that also features a selection of iconic street photographers from the Museum collection who inspire Chacón’s practice.

Chacón utilizes straight photography, working with all manual settings and no cropping or auto-focus. By maintaining the integrity of the original scene, Chacón captures his surroundings rife with that thing most fleeting: human emotion. As a counter to a society "obsessed with peering into our phones’ black mirrors," Chacón turns his camera’s eye ever outward and up, creating visual chronicles of human interaction, from "a bartender mid-pour to a family fishing trip, to an embrace while gazing at the stars". Using only Chacón’s masterful control of timing, contrast, and composition in black-and-white, the exhibition transports the viewer on a trip to their own personal realm, which, as the exhibition reveals, "could be anywhere worldwide, as long as it avoids modern technology in favor of a simpler time." Read more »

February 14, 2026 - June 7, 2026

Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, Juchitán, Oaxaca, México (Our Lady of the Iguanas, Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico) (detail), 1979. Gelatin silver print. Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art; Gift of Walter Pomeroy,
© Graciela Iturbide

Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), San Diego, California

Graciela Iturbide: Photographs from Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE

The Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) is proud to present Graciela Iturbide: Photographs from Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE, a major exhibition celebrating one of Latin America’s most influential living photographers. For more than five decades, Iturbide (Mexican, b. 1942) has brought a singular poetic vision to the people, rituals, and landscapes of her native Mexico and beyond. This comprehensive survey features approximately 150 photographs drawn primarily from Fundación MAPFRE’s renowned collection, alongside select works from The San Diego Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Organized by Fundación MAPFRE, the exhibition highlights Iturbide’s ability to transform the ordinary into the symbolic, revealing how tradition, spirituality, and the everyday intertwine in her work.

From her early mentorship under legendary Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo in the late 1960s to her celebrated portrayals of Indigenous and marginalized communities, Iturbide has continuously expanded the boundaries of documentary practice through metaphor, empathy, and visual lyricism. Her images—captured across Mexico, as well as in Italy, India, Panama, and the United States—trace an artistic journey that has evolved toward abstraction and introspection while maintaining a profound connection to the human experience. Graciela Iturbide: Photographs from Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE offers audiences a rare opportunity to encounter the depth and global resonance of an artist whose work continues to redefine the possibilities of photographic storytelling. Read more »

February 3, 2026 - June 27, 2026

The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky

Harry Gamboa Jr.: The Early, The Late, The Lost

The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky is proud to present Harry Gamboa Jr.: The Early, The Late, The Lost, a major exhibition celebrating over five decades of the artist’s groundbreaking practice. A pioneering figure in contemporary art, Gamboa has continuously defied artistic boundaries, merging photography, performance, and literature into a body of work that is as provocative as it is visionary. Emerging from the charged social and political atmosphere of East Los Angeles, his practice intertwines activism, humor, and conceptual rigor to challenge systems of representation and power. As fearless as it is poetic, Gamboa’s art carves out vital space for Chicano identity and cultural resistance within the broader narrative of American art.

Spanning from his early involvement with the influential collective Asco (1972–1985) to his ongoing project Troupe Non Grata (2022–present), The Early, The Late, The Lost offers an expansive view of Gamboa’s creative evolution. Bringing together photography, video, performance documentation, and literary excerpts, the exhibition reveals an artist whose work persistently confronts and reimagines contemporary social realities. More than a retrospective, this presentation honors Gamboa’s lifelong inquiry into art’s power to provoke and transform. His upcoming Robert C. May Photography Lecture in Spring 2026 will provide audiences with a rare opportunity to engage directly with one of the most incisive and visionary voices in American art. Read more »