Curated by Ed Gomez, Luis G. Hernandez, and Amy Pederson, the third MexiCali Biennial takes place at the Vincent Price Art Museum on the campus of East Los Angeles College (ELAC), and runs from January 19 through April 13, with an opening reception Saturday, January 19, 6 to 9 p.m.
Designed as a dynamic platform to create  new channels of communication between artists and audiences in the US and Mexico this MexiCali Biennial’s theme is cannibalism. Per the organizers:

The cannibal is a creature that threatens the collapse of identity and ethics, and instills anarchy in the social order. Cannibalism in the New World was one of the central rationales for colonialism, but MexiCali also proposes it as a path forward towards a new model for avant garde practice. Cannibalism can open up radical new spaces in art for bodies and their environmental interactions, and push against the oppressive pressure of hegemonic Western cultural systems. These transformative possibilities can change our relationship with art, and perhaps the world itself.

The MexicCali Biennial includes the work of 26 artists and collectives working in a variety of media, from sculpture and performance to video and painting: Fred Alvarado, Natalia Anciso, Marycarmen Arroyo Macias, Ana Baranda, Juan Bastardo, Sergio Bromberg, Helen Cahng, Matthew Carter, Carolyn Castaño, Enrique Castrejon, Tony de los Reyes, Map Conception: Deborah Diehl & Arzu Arda Kosar, Dino Dinco and Rafa Esparza, Veronica Duarte, Roni Feldman, Kio Griffith & Carmina Escobar, Zoè Gruni, HELL- (0) featuring: Michael Dee, Martin Durazo and Ichiro Irie, Daniel Lara, Candice Lin, Juan Luna-Avin, Matt MacFarland, Dominic Paul Miller, Flavia Monteiro, Nancy Popp, Peter Bo Rappmund, Christopher Reynolds, Cindy Santos Bravo, and Fidelius X.

The Vincent Price Art Museum   was established in 1957 by actor Vincent Prince and his wife Mary Grant Price who donated 90 pieces form ther own collection to create the first  “teaching art collection” housed at a community college. In recognition of this extravagant gift, East Los Angeles College renamed the art gallery in the Prices’ honor. Over the past 50 years, the collection has grown to more than 9,000 objects, and more than 100 shows have been mounted here. The range is impressive and eclectic, much like the Prices’ own collecting interest in world art; African, Mesoamerican, Native American and European artworks have all been exhibited at the VPAM.

Top image: Christopher Reynolds, “Appetite Apparatus #1 (Baker-Miller Pink, Suppressant)”, detail.