"Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s” will be on display at UC Riverside’s Barbara & Art Culver Center for the Arts in the California Museum of Photography from September 13, 2025 to February 15, 2026.
Co-curated by the Department of Art & Art History's Elena Shtromberg and Getty Research Institute’s Senior Research Specialist Zanna Gilbert, “Transgresoras" surveys artworks made and exchanged by Latinx and Latin American women artists from the 1960s to the present. As a mode of artistic production that relied on the postal service for the circulation and exchange of artworks, Mail Art allowed artists in repressive societies to evade strict censorship measures, providing platforms for circulating their work and for political protest. Latinx and Latin American women artists have used the postal system to transgress a varied set of restrictive systems, ranging from gender expectations to authoritarian regimes.
Related Events:
- Fall Reception | On October 11, 2025, the public is welcome to participate in a Curatorial tour at 5pm, followed by an Opening Reception from 6–8pm.
- Artist Conversation | On October 25, 2025 from 1–3pm, Shtromberg and Zanna Gilbert will moderate “Family Ties,” a conversation with two artists featured in "Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s to 2020s" – Carmen Argote and Arleene Correa Valencia.
- Artist Conversation | On January 27, 2026 from 1–3pm, Shtromberg will moderate a conversation with artists Giana De Dier and Marilyn Boror Bor that explores both artists’ interventions in narratives around public space in Panama and Guatemala within the context of their broader artistic practice. Conducted in both English and Spanish.
Reviews:
- "Mail Art Takes on the World” by Renee Reizman for Getty (January 22, 2026)
- "Wild Tongues: The Art of Resistance" by Anna Gaissert for Arte Aldía (January 28, 2026)
Original article and artist list can be found here.