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THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 6.04.26 EVA MARENGO SANCHEZ’S SOLO EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTS FAMILY TRADITIONS

Eva Marengo Sanchez’s solo show, Any Given Monday, at the Ruiz Healy Art Gallery in San Antonio, features the San Antonio-based artist’s new paintings. Her recent artwork combines natural floral … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 5.22.26 CARMEN LOMAS GARZA: PICTURING THE FAMILIAR

Carmen Lomas Garza: “Picturing the Familiar”  Opening at Arizona State University On May 2, the Arizona State University [ASU]  Art Museum opened an exciting exhibit, “Carmen Lomas Garza: … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 05.28.26 AN ART SCHOOL IN THE BARRIO: SAY SÍ

Sam Coronado was a pivotal Texas-based Chicano artist, printmaker, educator, and cultural organizer whose career reshaped the visibility and infrastructure of Latino and Chicano art in the United … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 05.15.26 MISTURA A PERUVIAN DRAMA

Mistura is a 1960s Peruvian drama about Norma (Bárbara Mori), a privileged French-Peruvian woman whose life falls apart when her husband Roberto runs off with a woman half his age. What follows is the … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 05.11.26 DELILAH MONTOYA ACTIVATING CHICANA RESISTANCE

The Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum was a once-in-a-generation art masterpiece of photography, printmaking, and large-scale installation. This major … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 4.30.26 A POSTMODERNIST SAYS ¿QUE?

The Centro de Artes, located in San Antonio’s Market Square, recently opened its new exhibition titled “A Postmodernist Says ¿Qué?” that brings together Latino artists exploring identity through humor … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 04.23.26 – TREVIÑO, GONZALEZ AND LUNA AT THE BLANTON

Latino Artists Treviño, Gonzalez, and Luna, Featured at UT Austin’s Blanton Museum Latino Artists Treviño, Gonzalez, and Luna, Featured at UT Austin’s Blanton Museum The UT Austin’s Blanton Museum … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 04.17.26 MAGO GÁNDARA’S MUJER MODERNA EXHIBIT

El Paso’s new Mexican American Cultural Center’s (MACC) exhibit, Mujer Moderna: The Life and Artwork of Mago Gándara, opened in the fall of 2025. Curated by Ramon Cardenas, the exhibition honors … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 4.10.26 CHICANO PRINTS AT UT AUSTIN’S BLANTON MUSEUM

The UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is currently featuring ten Chicano art prints from the Gilberto Cardenas-Dolores Garcia collection. Among those on exhibit are Carlos Cortez, Leo Limón, and Alma … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 04.03.26 MARTA SANCHEZ RIELES Y RAÍCES

Marta Sánchez’s train artwork is presently included in an exhibition organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. The exhibit documents how Mexican and Mexican … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 03.26.26 MARK MENJIVAR’S MURMURATIONS

Mark Menjívar’s Murmurations, a new, expansive, mid-career survey exhibition highlighting 16 multifaceted projects from his past 20 years, is currently open at the Contemporary at Blue Star in San … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 03.20.26 MAJOR EXHIBITION OF CUBAN MODERNIST WILFREDO LAM

“Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the famed Cuban artist, opened in November 2025 and runs through April 11, 2026 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 3.15.26 MUJERES DE FUERZA WOMEN OF STRENGTH EXHIBIT AT CENTRO CULTURAL AZTLAN

  This year’s Centro Cultural Aztlan’s Women Exhibit, Las Mujeres de Aztlan: Mujeres de Fuerza–Women of Strength, celebrated International Women’s Month. Curated by artist Terry Ybanez, the … [Read more...]

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March 15, 2026 by wpengine

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 03.06.26 CRUZ ORTIZ A LATINO ENTREPENEUR

Cruz Ortiz is a prominent San Antonio-based contemporary artist known for his Chicano-Pop style and his social activism through art. He blends personal South Texas experiences with pop culture, … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 02.27.26 LATINO ART AT SAN ANTONIO CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND CENTRO DE ARTES

Jesús Toro Martinez is part of a new exhibition at the San Antonio Central Library presented in partnership with February 2026 Contemporary Art Month (CAM) and Launch SA. A painter of expressive … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 2.19.26 CHICANO/A ARTISTS EXPAND FRIDA’S LEGACY

The art exhibit, Frida: The Making of an Icon, currently showing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, has been a spectacular success. Gary Tinterow, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 2.14.26 FRIDA: THE MAKING OF AN ICON

The impressive exhibit Frida: The Making of an Icon at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston traces Frida Kahlo’s posthumous evolution from a relatively unknown Mexican painter to a multifaceted global … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 2.06.26 LATINOS OVERCAME A WAR AND A BROKEN TREATY

February 2, 1848 marks the date of the end of the war between Mexico and the United States and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which resulted in the U.S. annexation of fifty percent of … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 1.30.26 ALEJANDRO DÍAZ AT RUIZ-HEALY ART GALLERY

Alejandro Díaz, A Latino Texan-New Yorker Exhibits at Ruiz-Healy Art Gallery. Texas native Alejandro Díaz developed an artistic practice over thirty-five years grounded in the bicultural and visual … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 1.24.26 CHICANO AND MEXICAN ART AT MCNAY MUSEUM

The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 as Texas’s first modern art museum, occupies Marion Koogler McNay’s Spanish Colonial Revival mansion in San Antonio. The museum is situated on 24 landscaped … [Read more...]

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 01.15.2026 NEW LATINO ART AT SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM

The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) has nearly 90,000 square feet of gallery space and a permanent collection of over 30,000 objects. SAMA’s collections span over 5,000 years and comprise objects … [Read more...]

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POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 11.05.26 WHERE IS THE LOVE?

November 5, 2026 By wpengine

Where is the love? And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Saul of Tarsus, aka Paul the Apostle (Chapter 13, First Letter to the Corinthians) The Apostle Paul’s epistles are a key feature of Christian teachings. Charity, as posited by Paul in Corinthians 13, is love. [“Caritas,” […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 11.05.26 LATINO ARTISTS INSPIRED BY MEXICAN FOOD TRADITIONS

November 5, 2026 By wpengine

The 17th Annual Mole Feast: A Taste of Cuisine, Culture and Art opened last week on October 15, 2026 at the Centro Cultural Aztlan. Curated by Edna Lugo, the exhibit included 35 artists. I am most familiar with the following ten artists: Rolando Briseño, Carolina Flores, Maria Jessica Brown, Hector Garza, Jacinto Guevara, Frank Harris, […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 10.29.26 LATINO ART FOR THE FALL IN SAN ANTONIO AND TEXAS

October 29, 2026 By wpengine

Latino art has come of age in the Southwest and beyond, and October is a banner month for Chicano and Mexican art exhibitions in Texas. In mid-October, San Antonio galleries opened three exhibits devoted to the Latino experience. This essay covers the Mercardo/Materials exhibit at the Centro de Artes in San Antonio’s downtown Market Square, […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 10.23.26. LATINA ARTISTS EXPLORE THEMES OF MIGRATION, BORDERS AND CULTURAL PERSISTENCE

October 24, 2026 By wpengine

Latina artists are becoming especially active in painting and sculpture in Southwestern communities with large Latino populations, including Los Angeles, Houston, and San Antonio. In this essay, I highlight two Latina artists who held successful art shows in San Antonio, Texas, over the past year. I begin with the renowned textile weaver Consuelo Jimenez Underwood. […]

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