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      • Quatlique-Landia
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      • Bracero Flag
      • Border Flowers Flag
      • Hoe Down
      • Frontera Flag #3
      • Frontera Flag #2
      • Frontera Flag #1
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      • Broken: 13 Undocumented Birds
      • Kaut: Border Flowers
      • Apocalyptic Rain Song
      • Woody, My Dad and Me
      • Mother Rain Rebozo
      • Inside the Rain Rebozo
      • Four Xewam
      • Penland Rain Study
      • Anonymous Dead
      • Ingles Only
      • Land Grabs. 500 Years
      • Buffalo Shroud, 1000 Left
      • Mi Oro, Tu Amor
      • Resistencia Yaqui
      • Virgen de la Frontera
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      • Run, Jane Run!
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      • Sacred Jump
      • Virgen de Los Caminos
      • Running Threads
      • Sunset Rebozo
      • Mendocino Rebozo
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      • American Foods: Corn, Beans, Squash
      • Undocumented Nopal. 2525 AD
      • Undocumented Tortilla Happening
      • Undocumented Tortilla Basket
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      • Virgen de los Nopales
      • Tortillas del Norte
      • American Dress. Virgen de Tepin
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      • Cesar Chavez
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      • Emiliano Zapata
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      • Woodie Guthrie
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      • VDG Rebozo Detail
    • Tortilla Meets Tortilla Wall
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Consuelo Jimenez Underwood is represented by Ruiz-Healy Art

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Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples
Opens June 14, 2024

​Oakland Museum of California Art


“Calli,” derived from Nahuatl, signifies the essence of home, family, and lineage. Immerse yourself in thought-provoking original artworks, installations, sculpture, painting, photography, poetry, and more, that showcase and honor the stories of Xicanx peoples across California in this temporary “Xicanx home.” 

Find more information here.​

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Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women
May 31, 2024 - January 5, 2025

​Renwick Gallery


​The thirty-three selected artworks piece together an alternative history of American art. Accessible and familiar, fiber handicrafts have long provided a source of inspiration for women. Their ingenuity with cloth, threads, and yarn was dismissed by many art critics as menial labor. The artists in this exhibition took up fiber to complicate this historic marginalization and also revolutionize its import to contemporary art. They drew on personal experiences, particularly their vantage points as women, and intergenerational skills to transform humble threads into resonant and intricate artworks.

Find more information here.
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Madre Tierra
May 29 - Sept 7

Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio

​Landscape paintings, a genre that has spanned cultures and centuries, have evolved significantly since their peak during the European Renaissance. Initially serving as a backdrop to narrative subjects, these paintings showcased an artist’s technical skill in portraying the detailed beauty of nature. Over time, the genre transitioned from literal, naturalistic observations to personifying the Earth and its elements, effectively becoming the subjects of works like the ones featured in our exhibition. The visage of Madre Tierra, present among the depictions of flowers, trees, mountains, valleys, and other natural views, invites the audience to consider their relationship with the planet and forge a deeper connection.

​Learn more about the exhibition.
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Born to Weave: A Comic About Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Illustrated by Catherine Vo

Drawn to Art: Inspiring Women Artists Comic Series

Fiber artist and weaver Consuelo Jimenez Underwood is the daughter of migrant agricultural workers. In her richly textured creations, she weaves common threads of history and cultural resistance and affirmation.

This comic is part of a series Drawn to Art: Tales of Inspiring Women Artists that illuminates the stories of women artists in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Inspired by graphic novels, these short takes on artists’ lives were each drawn by a student-illustrator from the Ringling College of Art and Design.

​Access the comic here.
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In the news: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood at the Armory Show

​ArtNews, September 9, 2023
Special New York Edition: Independent 20th Century and Photofairs Open, Korean Art and the Guggenheim and more
Maximilíano Durón, Senior Editor

The Art Newspaper, September 8, 2023
The Armory Show is 'business as usual' at first edition since Frieze acquisition
Charlie Porterfield



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Coming Up: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood at The Armory Show with Ruiz-Healy Art

Ruiz-Healy Art is thrilled to present the work of contemporary fiber artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood at the 2023 edition of The Armory Show.

Javits Center, September 8th - 10th, 2023

PBS NewsHour 
Flagged for Discussion
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

"I feel that the threads can join, not just fabric, but people. And that's where I came in. I wanted to do something about the division between our countries, Mexico and U.S. For me, that line is very arbitrary." -Consuelo Jimenez Underwood

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Acquisition Announcement
Four Xewam Acquired by SFMoMA
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​We are pleased to announce that San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has acquired Four Xewam by artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood. This acquisition was made possible by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Accessions Committee Fund purchase, by exchange, through a gift of Michael D. Abrams.
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Flagged for Discussion
April 8 - September 25, 2023
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Exhibition page 
Featuring work by more than 20 artists from the nineteenth century to today and curated by Larissa Randall, curatorial associate at Crystal Bridges, the exhibition reveals how the flag functions differently within works of painting, printmaking, fiber, photography, and mixed media. 
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Publication Release
Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory
by Tatiana Reinoza
Full Description

Reclaiming the Americas is the visual history of Latinx printmaking in the US. Tatiana Reinoza employs a pan-ethnic comparative model for this interdisciplinary study of graphic art, drawing on art history, Latinx studies, and geography in her discussions. The book contests printmaking’s historical complicity in the logics of colonization and restores the art form and the lands it once illustrated to the Indigenous, migrant, mestiza/o, and Afro-descendant people of the Americas.
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March 18, 2023 - May 27, 2023
Permanent Collection Highlights
Craft in America Center, Los Angeles
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Publication Release
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision
by Laura E. Pérez (Editor), Ann Marie Leimer (Editor)
Full Description
Drawing on the fiber arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Chicana feminist art, and Indigenous fiber- and loom-based traditions, Jimenez Underwood’s art encompasses needlework, weaving, painted and silkscreened pieces, installations, sculptures, and performance. This volume’s contributors write about her place in feminist textile art history, situate her work among that of other Indigenous-identified feminist artists, and explore her signature works, series, techniques, images, and materials.
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The Latinx Artist Fellowship - US Latinx Art Forum
Fellowship Site
Consuelo Underwood is the recipient of the Latinx Artist Fellowship! 
This fellowship supports some of the most compelling Latinx visual artists working in the United States today. 
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