Join us for a special reception and private tour of our new exhibition Xican-a.o.x. Body led by PAMM Chief Curator Gilbert Vicario and select exhibition artists and curators.

Xican-a.o.x. Body is the first major exhibition to showcase work by artists who foreground the body as a site of political agency and imagination, artistic investigation, decolonization, and alternative forms of community. The exhibition’s title is based on the term, Chicano, that is traditionally defined as an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans who embrace their indigenous ancestry. The exhibition emerges at the intersection of experimental artistic practices dating back to the Chicano Movement’s key years in the 1960s and 1970s and embraces the work of artists who identify in myriad ways—including Mexican American, Chicana/o, Xicanx, Indigenous, Latinx, Black, Brown, and Queer.

Organization and Support

Xican-a.o.x. Body is organized by the American Federation of Arts. The exhibition has been co-curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Marissa Del Toro, and Gilbert Vicario. The Pérez Art Museum Miami presentation was organized by Gilbert Vicario, Chief Curator, with the support of Fabiana A. Sotillo, Curatorial Assistant. Major support for the exhibition and catalogue is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Terra Foundation for American Art. At PAMM, Xican-a.o.x. Body is presented with lead individual support from Patricia and William Kleh.