Exhibitions
Hostile Terrain 94
January 12 – March 14, 2026
Reception on Tuesday, February 10, 1030am-2pm
Exhibition walk-through with Dr. Jason De Léon and Michael Wells from 1030-1130am
Book sale & signing from 1130-1230pm
Reception from 1230-2pm
Description
In 1994, the United States Border Patrol formally implemented the immigration enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.” This was a policy designed to discourage undocumented migrants from attempting to cross the US-Mexico border near urban points of entry. Instead, closing off these historically frequented crossing points would funnel individuals through more remote and depopulated regions, such as the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona. According to the NIH, since 1994, more than 5,000 people have died during the perilous journey.
Hostile Terrain 94 is a powerful participatory map installation and exhibition created by the Undocumented
Migration Project, a non-profit research and arts-education collective. This exhibition
seeks to humanize and bring visibility to the harsh realities of the U.S.–Mexico border,
where migrant deaths have occurred almost daily since 1994. At the heart of the installation
are handwritten toe tags, each representing a person who lost their life while attempting
the crossing. As participants complete the tags and view the accompanying maps, photographs,
and personal artifacts, they are invited to examine the human cost of border enforcement
and reflect the broader implications of current immigration policies.
Recent Past
Radical Geographies:
possibilities of the imaged landscape
Curated by Tamara Cedré
September 2- November 8, 2025
Exhibition Preview on Monday, September 15 from 10am-noon
Reception for the artists on Saturday, October 4 from 11am-1pm
Artists
Francis Almendárez
Lindsay Buchman
Katrina Bello
Jenny Calivas
Alex Delapena
Tarrah Krajnak
Lacey Lennon
Description
Historically, land has been wielded in the service of power for exploration, extraction and conquest. The advent of the camera legitimated this speculation and capture with the click of a shutter. But, can photography rupture this cycle and reconnect us with the endangered ecologies that surround us?
This group of artists propose radical geographies, rendering land as a politically charged locus of negotiation, mediating the site of their environs with the sight of their camera to posit questions about our ontological connection to the landscape and envisioning new ways of stewarding it into the future.
Gallery
