Borderlands, Xavier Tavera

Title

Borderlands

Xavier Tavera

Xavier Tavera photographed the border between the United States and Mexico after traveling its entire length on four separate visits. This catalog was produced in conjunction with the exhibition of these photographs at Projektraum FN in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in 2018, in an edition of 60 copies.

Author

Tavera, Xavier

Xavier Tavera Castro (born August 5, 1971) is a Mexican photographer and artist.[1] He was born and raised in Mexico City[2] where he studied at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana. Tavera completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) in 2014. Tavera received his Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Moving Images from the University of Minnesota in 2017. He taught photography at Augsburg College (2012–2016), the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2016–2021), and is currently an assistant professor of art at Carleton College. Tavera's work has been exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Soap Factory, the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University, the Staniar Gallery at Washington and Lee University, the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in Georgia, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles, the Galeria del Hospital Maciel in Montevideo, Uruguay, and at ProjekTraum FN at l'atelier Glidden Wozniak in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Tavera received a McKnight Photography Fellowship in 2003 and his work has been recognized with Over Exposure MN Grants,[3] Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Minnesota State Arts Board Artists Initiative.[4]

Essay by

Lepage, Andrea

Education

Brown University

May 2008 - Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture

Dissertation title: “The Arts of the Franciscan Colegio de San Andrés in Quito: A Process of Cultural Reformation"

May 2001 - M.A. in History of Art and Architecture

Qualifying Paper: “Myth of South American Liberator, Simón Bolívar"

Clark University

May 1998 - B.A. cum laude, with highest honors in Art History

Honors Thesis: “Colonial Hybrid Art and Architecture of the Americas"

Research

Prof. Lepage specializes in visual art produced by US Latina/o/x artists who investigate themes of memory, forgetting, and loss in relation to Mexican American, and, more broadly, US Latina/o/x culture and history. Her recent scholarship focuses on community muralism, themes of racialized violence in art history, and the objects of cultural memory. Her research has been supported by institutions that include the Fulbright-Hays Program, the Associated Colleges of the South, Virginia Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

ISBN-13

978-3-9823200-7-6

Publisher

ProjekTraum FN

Friedrichshafen, Germany

Publication date

December 1, 2018

Availability status

Available

Product form

Hardcover

Number of pages

170