CHRA’s Oscar Gardea Presents Work at Two Exhibitions
Image courtesy of Museo Amparo
CHRA graduate and artist-in-residence Oscar Gardea has shown work across a number of exhibitions. In El Dorado de la Utopia al mito contemporaneo, curated by Maria Virginia Jaua (October 2024 through March 2025 at Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico), Gardea presented a series of seven masks alongside the work of other artists in an attempt to interrogate the endurance of the myth of El Dorado from the period of colonial conquest through the present time. Gardea’s masks are now part of the Museo Amparo’s permanent collection.
More recently, Gardea's work was featured in Sharja Biennial 16 (February–June 2025) as part of Speaking with the Dead, a group exhibition curated by Adam HajYahia as part of Bilna’es. The exhibition explored relations of debt and indebtedness as articulated from within histories of colonization and racial capitalism, and how these relations continue to structure the present moment. Also showing work in the exhibition were Muhannad Al Azza, Dina Mimi, Jota Mombaça, Martin Wong, among others.
Post Date: 06-16-2025
More recently, Gardea's work was featured in Sharja Biennial 16 (February–June 2025) as part of Speaking with the Dead, a group exhibition curated by Adam HajYahia as part of Bilna’es. The exhibition explored relations of debt and indebtedness as articulated from within histories of colonization and racial capitalism, and how these relations continue to structure the present moment. Also showing work in the exhibition were Muhannad Al Azza, Dina Mimi, Jota Mombaça, Martin Wong, among others.
Post Date: 06-16-2025
