ARTE SIN FRONTERAS: TEXAS
Contemporary VOICES FROM THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHWEST
tEXAS EDITION
aPRIL 2026
Arte Sin Fronteras is conceived as an ongoing series, each iteration focusing on a different state within the Southwest. With Texas as its starting point, the exhibition establishes a foundation for connecting artists, communities, and audiences across borders both visible and unseen.
The exhibition considers the border not as a fixed line, but as a shifting space shaped by culture and memory. Through painting, sculpture, and mixed media, the works navigate personal and collective histories rooted in the Southwest.
As the first iteration of an ongoing series, Arte Sin Fronteras expands across state lines while grounding itself in a shared visual language of the Southwest.
Arte sin Fronteras not only highlighted artists from Texas, but artists whose work reflects a bi-national experience shaped by both the United States and Mexico. Many of the artists in the exhibition carry stories, traditions, and visual languages rooted on both sides of the border. Together, the exhibition expands beyond geography, presenting that the southwest not as a fixed place, but as a meeting point where American and Mexican experiences overlap, inform one another, and continue to evolve.
Mural by Christin Apodaca (TX).
Selected Works from arte sin fronteras
A selection of works from Arte sin Fronteras: Texas.
Alejandro Macias (TX) “Isis and Annie” Oil on canvas
Artist Bio:
Alejandro Macias is a visual artist whose work examines identity, place, and the socio-political landscape through a Mexican-American lens. Raised along the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, Macias draws from personal and regional histories to explore themes of assimilation, migration, and cultural hybridity. His practice integrates traditional rendering, abstraction, and multi-media approaches, often using the human figure as a central point of his practice.
Mauro de la Tierra (TX) “Resource” Acrylic and Traffic Marking Paint on Wood.
Artist Statement:
Mauro de la Tierra is a San Antonio-based Mexican-American artist whose work spans painting, muralism, sculpture, and illustration. A self-taught artist who emerged from graffiti and street art culture, de la Tierra creates emotionally charged works rooted in community, identity, and social commentary. His practice explores themes including addiction recovery, poverty, environmental decline, and the resilience of working-class communities, often blending surreal abstraction with layered textures created through spray paint, acrylic, and oil paint.
Jenelle Esparza “What Could Never Leave Your Body”
Artist Bio:
Jenelle Esparza is a multidisciplinary Tejana artist born in Corpus Christi, Texas, whose work explores memory, labor, land, and generational history through textiles, photography, and installation. Drawing from the overlooked histories of cotton farming and labor in South Texas, Esparza creates deeply personal works that examine the connections between body, landscape, culture, and ancestry. Her practice often incorporates cotton fiber, found objects, and inherited materials tied to family and regional histories, reflecting on themes of identity, survival, and generational trauma. Esparza has exhibited nationally at institutions including the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Momentary, DePaul Art Museum, and the San Antonio Museum of Art, where her work is held in the permanent collection.
Francisco Delgado (TX) “Artist Bio:
Francisco Delgado is an El Paso-based Mexican-American artist whose work merges contemporary portraiture, symbolism, and borderland narratives to explore identity, memory, and cultural inheritance in the Southwest. Working across painting and mixed media, Delgado creates emotionally layered compositions that reflect the complexity of life along the U.S.–Mexico border, often incorporating imagery tied to family history, spirituality, migration, and everyday border culture. His work balances intimate storytelling with bold visual language, drawing influence from both traditional Mexican iconography and contemporary urban aesthetics.
photo gallery of arte sin fronteras
Photography by Gary Shaw
