Between the late 1960s and 1990s, a group of queer Chicanx artists based in Los Angeles privileged collaboration and experimentation as they contributed to significant artistic and cultural movements. These include mail art, feminist print media, the formation of alternative spaces, punk music and performance, and artistic response to the AIDS crisis. Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. contextualizes their diverse practices within intersecting fields of queer and Latinx art history.
From 2017 to 2022, Axis Mundo traveled with ICI to seven cities across the United States. The exhibition’s tour marks the first significant showing of many of these pioneering artists’ work and contributes to the expansion of research and understanding of identity while navigating an inequitable cultural landscape. The co-curators of the exhibtion, C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz, discuss these aspects of the project in a conversation moderated by Becky Nahom, ICI’s Director of Exhibitions.
