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Artworks
Graciela Iturbide Mexican, b. 1942
Cholas (con Zapata, Juárez y Villa) White Fence, East Los Ángeles, 1986Silver Gelatin Print
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.6 cmFurther images
Graciela Iturbide notes a disconnect that exists between Chicano culture and Mexican history. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, she recalls the moment she captured this photograph: “For...Graciela Iturbide notes a disconnect that exists between Chicano culture and Mexican history. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, she recalls the moment she captured this photograph: “For me, it was very interesting because they have a nostalgia about Mexico that isn’t always based in fact. A group of them told me, ‘We want you to photograph us by the mural of the mariachis.’ And it was a mural of Mexico’s historical heroes: Benito Juárez and Pancho Villa [and Emiliano Zapata]. They can be really mistaken about Mexico, but they still have a profound nostalgia for it.”
Provenance
Graciela Iturbide's StudioExhibitions
Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY; curator: Carlos Gollonet, 2025 (catalogue)
Graciela Iturbide: Las Californias, Ruiz Healy Art, New York, NY, 2025 (catalogue)Graciela Iturbide: Shadowlines, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom; curators: Alexis Fabry and Anna Dannemann, 2024
Picturing the Border, Cleveland Museum of Art; curator: Nadiah Rivera Fellah, 2024 (catalogue)
Graciela Iturbide, Heliotropo 37, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France; curators: Alexis Fabry and Marie Perennès, 2022 (catalogue)
Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX, 2016 (catalogue)
The Goat's Dance: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles; curator: Judith Keller, 2007-08 (catalogue)Eyes to Fly With, Wittliff Gallery, Alkek Library, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 2006 (catalogue)
Images of the Spirit, Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY; curator: Michael E. Hoffman, 2006 (catalogue)
Literature
Jiménez-Stuard, Natalia. “An acclaimed photographer’s black-and-white dreamscapes, in 3 New York shows.” The Washington Post, January 9, 2026 (illustrated)
“Graciela Iturbide: Las Californias.” Meer, November 8, 2025. (illustrated)
Kayla Aletha Welch, "Photography Show Aims to Upend Xenophobic Border Narratives." Hyperallergic, July 18, 2024 (illustrated)
Dickson, Andrew. “Graciela Iturbide’s surrealist take on Mexico.” The Financial Times, June 30, 2024 (illustrated)
“Graciela Iturbide’s haunting images are ‘an abstraction of the mind.’” The Times, June 5, 2024 (illustrated) Recinos, Eva. “This Artwork Changed My Life: Graciela Iturbide’s Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas.” Artsy, February 8, 2020. (illustrated)
Publications
Exhibition catalogue, Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play. Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE and Editorial RM, 2025, p. 198 (illustrated)
Exhibition catalogue, Graciela Iturbide: Las Californias. New York: Ruiz-Healy Art, editor: Patricia Ruiz-Healy, 2025 (illustrated)
Exhibition catalogue, Rivera Fellah, Nadiah. Picturing the Border. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2024, p. 95 (illustrated)
Iturbide, Graciela, and Alfonso Morales Carrillo. White Fence. Barcelona | Mexico City: Editorial RM, 2024, p. 71 (illustrated)
Exhibition catalogue, Graciela Iturbide, Heliotropo 37. Paris: Fondation Cartier, 2022, p. 279 (illustrated)
Maillé, Mauricio, and Alfonso Morales Carrillo, eds. Graciela Iturbide on Dreams, Symbols, and Imagination. New York: Aperture, 2022, p. 95 (illustrated)
Exhibition catalogue, Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See. San Antonio: Ruiz-Healy Art, editor: Patricia Ruiz-Healy, 2016, p. 23 (illustrated)
Exhibition catalogue, Iturbide, Graciela. Graciela Iturbide. Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE, 2009, p. 133 (illustrated)
Iturbide, Graciela, Fabienne Bradu, and Alejandro Castellanos. Eyes to Fly With: Portraits, Self-portraits, and Other Photographs. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006, p. 122 (illustrated)Iturbide, Graciela, Alfredo López Austin, and Roberto Tejada. Images of the Spirit. New York: Aperture, 1996, p. 87 (illustrated)
