Victoria Delgadillo

Xican-a.o.x. Body – Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is an independent curator and art historian based in Southern California and New York. As a 2019-20 CSRC research scholar, she conducted research for the upcoming touring exhibition Xican-a.o.x. Body, organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Phoenix Art Museum. Over the past year she worked in the archives at the CSRC and at UC Santa Barbara and made studio visits to and conducted investigations of Chicanx artists in California, Texas, and New York. She and collaborators Gilbert Vicario and Marissa del Toro began compiling the exhibition checklist, which will include approximately 200 works by sixty-five artists.  In spring 2020, Fajardo-Hill was a visiting lecturer and fellowship visiting research scholar in the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) at Princeton University. She co-taught the first Latin American art history course at Princeton to include Chicanx art in the syllabus. Victoria Delgadillo will exhibit her suitcase multi-media sculpture “American Manufactured Vacation, Juarez Suitcase, 2004” in this grand exhibit.  Due to Covid19 opening dates and venues may be changed.  Please get updates here

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Nuestras Historias: Stories of Mexican Identity from the Permanent Collection is open year round.  Plan a visit  Victoria Delgadillo’s painting of Laura Berenice, a disappeared young woman of Ciudad Juarez is in this permanent exhibit and museum collection. View the exhibit at Galería Gilberto & Dolores Cárdenas, The National Museum of Mexican Art, 1852 West 19th Street, Chicago, IL 60608.  read more