What made you leave? What did you have to abandon? How did you leave? What did you take with you? What happened when you arrived?

En Medio | Senses of Migration gathered these questions — the questions every migrant carries — and held them at the center of an interdisciplinary exhibition that engaged the act of crossing the U.S.–Mexico border through every facet of artistic practice. Bringing together artists from across the Americas working in music, photography, painting, video, and performance, the exhibition refused a single narrative or medium. It instead created space for many voices to speak at once: the documentary, the lyrical, the political, and the deeply personal.

The project was developed in close collaboration with academic and community partners at the University of Nevada, Reno, including the Gender, Race, and Identity Program, the Latino Research Center, the Northern Nevada International Center, and UndocuPack — a student-led organization advocating for undocumented and immigrant students at the university. These partnerships shaped the exhibition's interpretive framework and its accompanying programming, which extended the conversation beyond the gallery walls.

En Medio reflects a curatorial approach I have continued to develop throughout my career: that exhibitions on questions of migration, identity, and belonging are most powerful when they refuse easy resolution and when they are built in genuine partnership with the communities most directly engaged.

Participating artists: Rafael Blanco, Ana Teresa Fernández, Guillermo Galindo, Xandra Ibarra, Tom Kiefer, Kiara Aileen Machado, Jean-Paul Perrotte, Josué Rivas.

Organized by the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art. Curated by Vivian Zavataro and Jeannette Martinez in collaboration with Dr. Deborah Boehm.