This document discusses Exeo-Borderism, an art movement dealing with cross-cultural identity along the US-Mexico border. It aims to break down physical and ideological barriers related to immigration, preserve cultural identity across borders, and respond to anti-immigration rhetoric. The movement has its roots in the Chicano movement of the 1960s-80s and addresses issues like homeland, borders, and the politicization of human bodies. Several pioneer artists in the movement, like Rupert Garcia and Juan Sanchez, are profiled for incorporating political messages addressing racism, cultural identity, and Puerto Rican independence into their work.

1. Exeo-Borderism
Eli Scaparo

2. Border Art Movement
❏ Rooted in socio-political experiences
regarding US-Mexico borderlands
❏ Addresses homeland, borders, surveillance,
race, ethnicity, national origins
❏ Addresses forced politicization of human
bodies and physical land
❏ Deals with harmful separations created by
boundaries
❏ Emerged in early 80’s
❏ Arose from Chicano
movement
❏ Cultural and artistic resistance
❏ Arose during 1960’s
❏ Involvement of artists in socio-political
movement
❏ Addresses situation of Mexican Americans
❏ Establishment of a collective identity
❏ Resistance of racial stereotypes
❏ Counterculture movement
❏ Chicanismo
Chicano Art Movement
Congresso de Artistas Chicanos
en Aztlan
We Art Not a Minority,
Mural Estrada Courts Housing
Project
Rupert Garcia, Cambios, 1972
Rena Bransten Gallery

3. Political Climate Surrounding Immigration and
MexicoDonald Trump’s presidency has perpetuated “us vs. them” rhetoric
Characterization of Mexican immigrants as “criminals” and “rapists”
Trump has already stated several anti-immigration measures he plans on putting in place
Increased activity from ICE
Wall on US-Mexican border
Executive order 13769
Deportation of undocumented immigrants had already reached a
record high during the Obama administration
Relative security for law-abiding undocumented immigrants
expected to be erased

4. Exeo-Borderism
Art dealing with cross cultural identity, particularly concerning the United States-
Mexican border
Break down of both physical and ideological barriers as related to immigration
Preservation and understanding of cultural identity across borders
Response to anti-immigration rhetoric
Means of protest, and of combating stereotypes and prejudices

5. Pioneer - Rupert Garcia
❏ Worked within the Chicano
Movement
❏ Entrenched in activist communities,
and an advocate for Latino and
minority groups
❏ Work addresses issues of racism
and the mistreatment of Latino
people
❏ Emphasis on unification of Mexican
traditions
❏ Combines political background with
Cesen Deportación
1973
Color Silkscreen
20 x 26 inches

6. Pioneer - Juan
Sanchez
❏ Artist, activist, and prominent member of
Puerto Rican Nationalist movements in
New York
❏ Paintings serve as a statement on the
social, political, and cultural issues
following his Puerto Rican heritage
❏ Struggle for Puerto Rico’s
independence especially important
to his work
❏ Deals with the search for identity many
Puerto Ricans face
Juan Sanchez
Colonialismo es la SIDA Verdadera..., 2000

7. Jaime Carrejo
❏ Interdisciplinary artist
❏ Uses art as a means to explore alterity,
or otherness, and its relationship to
the American Dream
❏ “One-Way Mirror”
❏ Focus on the border between
Mexico and the United States
❏ Deals with the physical border as
well as the symbolic one
❏ space, place, and identity
Jaime Carrejo, One-Way Mirror, 2017

8. Aliza
Nisenbaum
❏ Began working with Immigrant Movement
International in 2012
❏ Organization designed to help immigrants to
the US ‘imagine a better future’
❏ Began as an ESL teacher, later asked her
students to sit for portraits
❏ Process of painting allows her subjects to tell their
stories, creates intimacy
❏ Realized people are made up of absences
❏ Work influenced by her “trans-border
upbringing”
Aliza Nisenbaum, Las Talaveritas , 2015
Oil on linen, 64 × 57 in

9. Jose Ortiz
❏ Dominican artist and educator
❏ Works creating community-based projects which
nurture the arts, particularly within the Dominican
community
❏ Celebrate art within African and Indigenous
communities
❏ Cofounder of the Washington Heights multi-
disciplinary cultural organization, AREYTOS
❏ Works connecting art with our everyday world
❏ Idea of common existence perseveres through art
Rafaela, 2008 Mixed Media On
Masonite 48" X 48"

10. Maria de los
Angeles
❏ Part of DACA - came to the US undocumented as a child
❏ Currently working with “We Make America”
❏ Informal group of artist making 100 Statues of
Liberty in mourning
❏ How we all contribute to America’s formation
❏ Work deals with confrontation between ICE officials and
Latinos
❏ Discussion of threat of home raid, traffic stops, the
terror of a family being torn apart
❏ Breaking restrictions and conventions
Between Spaces, Acrylic on canvas
76" x 86 Inches"

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