The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside
The Cheech Marin Center opened in June 2022 as a public-private partnership between the City of Riverside, and comedian, Cheech Marin—one of the world’s foremost collectors of Chicano art. “Together, we hope to bring every aspect of Chicano art to this region as well as the rest of the world. We have something wonderful to give.” – Cheech Marin
Exhibitions
Cheech Collects: Anniversary Edition
Now thru Sunday, May 12
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture • Upstairs Galleries
Cheech Collects: Anniversary Edition features nearly 90 works by about 40 Chicana/o/x artists – curated by María Esther Fernández and almost all collected by Cheech. This anniversary edition of this continuing exhibition features pioneers and trailblazers like Carlos Almaraz, Margaret García, Yolanda González, Wayne Alaniz Healy, Frank Romero, and Patssi Valdez and adds new works by Sonia Romero, Marta Sánchez, Shizu Saldamando, Francisco Palomares, and Paul Valadez.
Judithe Hernández | Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for my Arrival
Saturday, Now thru Sunday, August 4
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture • Upstairs Galleries
Judithe Hernández | Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for my Arrival spans over 40 years of this groundbreaking artist’s career. It is the first major retrospective of her work, which centers the realities and mythologies of Mexican migrant women, exploring the legacies of colonization and the US Mexico border and their impact on women and children. Featuring over 100 works from her Adam & Eve, Juarez, Mexico, and Colonization series, it also includes a video chronicling the artist’s early career in muralism and her critical conceptual contributions as the first featured cover artist of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies.
The Cheech Museum is located at 3581 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501. Visit www.riversideartmuseum.org.
